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posted by QuakerOats
Cussing out an auto worker is not going to play well in the Midwest. Amazing he is the person they are bringing to the dance.
You wouldn't think so, but Obama survived being condescending to Joe the Plumber just fine.
Granted, Crazy Uncle Joe doesn't have the panache and charisma that Obama did, but it's not without precedent that someone can survive it.
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posted by O-Trap
You wouldn't think so, but Obama survived being condescending to Joe the Plumber just fine.
Granted, Crazy Uncle Joe doesn't have the panache and charisma that Obama did, but it's not without precedent that someone can survive it.
Granted it has been awhile since I wathched that interaction, but I don't recall it being as bad as Biden confronting some of these people.
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posted by like_that
Granted it has been awhile since I wathched that interaction, but I don't recall it being as bad as Biden confronting some of these people.
It was certainly not the same. Like I said, Biden doesn't have the panache and charisma to pull off the interaction that Obama had.
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posted by gut
Obama leveraged technology to turn out every last vote he needed in key states. Trump has the same tech. I doubt Biden's operation does.
But Joe will probably forget where he is, literally, in one of the debates with Trump and then it's all over.
It's going to be a hell of a show.
I can't wait.
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posted by gut
What's the over/under on Biden actually throwing a punch at some point?
I mean, it's probably a longshot, but depending on the payout, I might take the odds.
I'd say the chance of Biden using some colloquial bumpkin term to call Trump a name is probably pretty high, though. That'll be fun.
If Biden ever uses the term "cotton-picking," I'll lose my shit. It'll be hilarious watching the media outlets have to choose between torpedoing their favorite and calling out a racist phrase. It'd be fucking glorious.
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Tue, Mar 10, 2020 4:57 PM
posted by QuakerOats
Sanders cancels Cleveland event for tonight. I guess when you’re about 80, you can’t take any risks.
Not with your own health and money anyway.
With others', though, it's cool.
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posted by BR1986FB
It's not going to be. It's going to be Killary. The media's already pushing that angle with Biden being mentally unfit and Bernie just being a disaster in general. The Angel of Death isn't going to have to do a thing and she's going to slide right into the Dem's nomination.
Not impossible, but doubtful.
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posted by gut
I have a way better theory...
Biden is going to pick Klobuchar for his VP (she already let that slip), but then withdraw shortly after the convention. That moves Klobuchar up to the top of the ticket, and then she'll name Mayor Pete as her VP. This is the phone call they had with Obama when they got out ahead of Super Tuesday and endorsed Biden.
Joe's job was to stop the Bernie Bros, but they know he has health issues and can't beat Trump. It's why Obama still hasn't endorsed Biden, much less anyone else....because he's saving his endorsement for the person who will actually run for POTUS.
The brilliant thing about going with Klobuchar instead of Pete is no one, not Bernie or anyone else, will be allowed to call shenanigans when it's a woman on top of the ticket.
It sounds like the kind of thing I'd read from the wackadoos in a few of the Libertarian groups I'm in on Facebook. However, it's also pretty genius.
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Trump's friend Alex Jones got busted for DUI. The Deep State is striking back in very clever passive-aggressive ways.
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posted by gut
I have a way better theory...
Biden is going to pick Klobuchar for his VP (she already let that slip), but then withdraw shortly after the convention. That moves Klobuchar up to the top of the ticket, and then she'll name Mayor Pete as her VP. This is the phone call they had with Obama when they got out ahead of Super Tuesday and endorsed Biden.
Joe's job was to stop the Bernie Bros, but they know he has health issues and can't beat Trump. It's why Obama still hasn't endorsed Biden, much less anyone else....because he's saving his endorsement for the person who will actually run for POTUS.
The brilliant thing about going with Klobuchar instead of Pete is no one, not Bernie or anyone else, will be allowed to call shenanigans when it's a woman on top of the ticket.
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Looks like Bernie got smoked today. Lost big in Michigan, which he won in 2016.
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posted by justincredible
Looks like Bernie got smoked today. Lost big in Michigan, which he won in 2016.
Yep. Pretty sure today was the end for Bolshevik Bernie.
posted by gut
There are gaffes, and then there's things that just aren't possible to be spit out from a normal functioning brain:
"...an O-Biden / Bama democrat..."
The one where he said that the "only thing" they could do was to "re-elect Donald Trump" was nuts.
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Yeah....ugggh 10 years of Klobuchar?!? Pray that he doesn't pick Kamala.
Yikes. As if we didn't have enough troubles.
posted by gut
I give myself 4 tinfoil hats for that one!
But I should have added Biden and his family are corrupt as hell - he can't become POTUS and bring that scrutiny on him and his family.
Oh, but he's senile enough to do it. Don't you see? It's the perfect plan! 😁