2020 Democratic Primary

[Aeon Jiminy]

When she retires from the Senate, she can do stand-up. I'd pay to see her!

Wasn't it Sanders supporters who had a problem with " cult of personality" ?

 

[Shiloh Lyric]

This is great. Can't stop watching it.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I freaking love her. She had the plans, she had the record of getting stuff done and the ability to break things down and explain the issues in understandable ways. I'm never going to not be disappointed that I won't have the chance to vote for her.

Yeah, every problem I had with Hillary was corrected with Warren. I think she'd have been an excellent President.

Wasn't it Sanders supporters who had a problem with " cult of personality" ?

Is thinking someone's funny a cult of personality? Maybe you are just making a bad joke?

 

[Anya Ristow]

Jesse Jackson endorses Bernie Sanders for president

Civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. on Sunday endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.

www.cnn.com

 

[Pamela]

I hope everyone understands this threat — I have been worried the media would keep silent about it, when it should be front and center.

 

[Cristalle]

Innula, Antonio Moore had his radio show on Friday and it's a very intelligent discussion about Obama's legacy, Biden and black politics. I don't agree with everything people said but it's an enlightening discussion.


And he discusses a number of linked articles. This one, though, is the biggest thing for me.

Destruction Of Black Wealth During The Obama Presidency

It hit very hard when he said in the show that Obama in the financial crisis took black wealth, which was in their homes, and funneled it to white companies by propping up the financial institutions without bailing the homeowner out, who then in turn redistributed that wealth to white people via stocks. That was profound. There's quite a bit there in this show to deal with.

 

[Essence Lumin]

This NY Post writer thinks in the event Biden loses his mind and is obviously unfit to be president by June, that the DNC will never accept Bernie so they will elect Hillary on the 2nd vote. Maybe not a perfect paraphrase but the link is below.

I think it's a plausible argument but would be a very bad move. They will piss off so many people, making them feel their vote meant nothing, that the nominee wasn't even on the ballot, it will be handing the election to the orange one.

Democrats’ hunt for Trump slayer may lead to Hillary Clinton comeback: Goodwin

 

[Salome]

I hope everyone understands this threat — I have been worried the media would keep silent about it, when it should be front and center.

Instead of recognizing and focusing on the enormous threats of foreign interference, vote mechanism vulnerabilities, and active voter suppression, we had to waste energy and effort on a “unity commission” because a sore loser convinced his gullible followers he was cheated. I have been skeptical and worried about how easily we let the GOP and other bad actors fuck with our elections since 2000, but this year is terrifying.

 

[Pamela]

This NY Post writer thinks in the event Biden loses his mind and is obviously unfit to be president by June, that the DNC will never accept Bernie so they will elect Hillary on the 2nd vote. Maybe not a perfect paraphrase but the link is below.

I think it's a plausible argument but would be a very bad move. They will piss off so many people, making them feel their vote meant nothing, that the nominee wasn't even on the ballot, it will be handing the election to the orange one.

Democrats’ hunt for Trump slayer may lead to Hillary Clinton comeback: Goodwin

Unless the Deep State substitutes a Biden clone.

I sympathize with Joe. It is hard to be coherent when you have so many distractions — one of which is trying not to stutter. For me it’s not an age thing but more an ADD thing.

When I was teaching and trying to talk to the class while I was trying to find something in the filing cabinet:

“Ok, uh, when you.......uh...finish....... uhhhhhh.... put your paper in the, um, the, um, the <waves at corner of the room> ummmmmm —-“

“Blue tray!” Someone yells.

“Right.”

 

[Shiloh Lyric]

 

[Cristiano]

I cannot stop watching this

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Salome]

it really is telling how Bernie doesn’t hesitate to strip autonomy from a woman and a gay man to push his conspiracies. This is a deliberate ploy to seed mistrust in the support base of two candidates that rejected him. It’s disgusting.

 

[Salome]

Yeah. Biden always stresses that he was second and below Obama’s authority.

 

[Pamela]

I hope everyone understands this threat — I have been worried the media would keep silent about it, when it should be front and center.

 

[Essence Lumin]

This NY Post writer thinks in the event Biden loses his mind

Facepalms? It is just a hypothetical scenario, probably he'll be ok.

Another scenario is 100,000 people die here by June from covid 19. God knows what that would do the election.

 

[Cristiano]

Biden vs. Sanders: How they compare on key issues

Former Vice President Joe Biden's Super Tuesday showing has set up a head-to-head competition with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders over the direction of the Democratic Party -- and over who will face President Donald Trump in November.

www.cnn.com

 

[danielravennest]

Jesse Jackson endorses Bernie Sanders for president

Civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. on Sunday endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.

www.cnn.com

So one has-been presidential wanna-be in his late 70's endorsed another has-been presidential wanna-be in his late 70's. Who cares?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Innula, Antonio Moore had his radio show on Friday and it's a very intelligent discussion about Obama's legacy, Biden and black politics. I don't agree with everything people said but it's an enlightening discussion.


And he discusses a number of linked articles. This one, though, is the biggest thing for me.

Destruction Of Black Wealth During The Obama Presidency

It hit very hard when he said in the show that Obama in the financial crisis took black wealth, which was in their homes, and funneled it to white companies by propping up the financial institutions without bailing the homeowner out, who then in turn redistributed that wealth to white people via stocks. That was profound. There's quite a bit there in this show to deal with.

Thanks. I'll take a look at it when I have the time, though I have to say that I don't that often have the time (or the inclination) to listen to hour-long podcasts.

I did take a quick look at the article and think it perpetuates a very dangerous mistake in conflating the equity someone has in their home with wealth.

Wealth is, generally, either something that generates income for you or something you readily sell or exchange for something else, and thinking of the equity in your home that way is a big mistake, to my mind, since it's neither.

Getting stuck with negative equity is, as Brits will know all too well, one of the disadvantages of being a homeowner (or having a mortgage) in a recession, quite simply, and while it's maybe fair to blame Obama for not helping out people stuck with negative equity, that's a completely separate issue from preventing the banks from failing (and how anyone can fault Obama for preventing the banks from failing is beyond me, because the consequences of not doing that would have been catastrophic for everyone -- if you think 2008 was bad, it would have been a hell of a lot worse if major US banks had started failing).

But, really, I'm not asking why people think a lot of traditional Democratic voters have failed to warm to Sanders -- that's not the problem.

I am asking, rather, both why the Sanders campaign finds this surprising in the first place, since I'd have thought they'd have been expecting the results based on their canvassing and on the confidential campaign surveys I assume they must have been running, and why they don't seem to engage with voters who, for whatever reason, prefer Biden or someone else, and find out from them what they see the problem with Sanders as being.

Sanders supporters talking about Democrats who support candidates other than Sanders seem to be talking about a group of people about whom they know very little and have to rely on experts and podcasts to explain to them, rather than about people they've been engaging either at party meetings or on the doorstep when they're out canvassing -- that bothers me, and it really doesn't bode well for the success of his campaign.

 

[Cristiano]

Jill Biden comes out swinging

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www.palmerreport.com