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Or, you know, getting in the race to begin with.
I've re-read this a few times, and, seriously? You do know that everything you said right here applies to Bernie far more than Joe Biden? Who was a Senator and a Vice-President, and has most certainly been vetted. Do you not think that Trump/Republicans have a file on Bernie they intend to use if he's the nominee? And I bet that there are things there most of us don't know because BERNIE has never been very well vetted. In 2016, the media was too focused on "her emails" to vet him, and everyone else was too enamored with him or too busy trying to defend Hillary.
By the time that the article called Barack Obama the "ultimate race pimp", my eyes were rolling too hard to read the rest.
No, I don't agree. I'm not trying to shut down the process. I am certain that everyone has oppo research on everyone else and they're going to use it. I'm not dumb or unrealistic about that. I believe that yes, everyone should be vetted through the primary. That does include Bernie. A tough primary should toughen up the eventual nominee, because the GOP isn't going to play nice. You can have your criticisms but don't act like just because people push back with other information that we think he can't be criticized. It just means that we may disagree or weigh things differently. Just because I push back doesn't mean I think he can't be criticized; it sounds more like you just don't want any pushback. There are valid criticisms and there are some that I think are garbage. I'll push back on what I think are garbage or places where I think there needs to be more thoughtful conversation.
Just curious - and I would never say this except for what's happening now in the US with Covid-19. But, how many people should have to become sick or die to ensure we have primaries in every state?
Nobody should have to, the way nobody should have to stand in line for 3-7 hours in freezing weather because polling stations closed. I'd agree with the proposal to vote by mail, though.
Who ever would have thought we'd agree on something. The only issue is, I think it may be too late to allow for vote by mail in those places that don't have it (for the primary, that is).
Is there time to organise that over the next few weeks, do you think?
I don't think there is - hopefully I could be wrong. There is a large movement to have vote by mail in November, though. Its kind of amazing that we may get away from a lot of voter suppression due to this.
You may not think so but we have far more in common than what separates us.
There isn't, for next week. But the April -June primaries, perhaps.
So you think Bernie is healthier and better able to lead at this point in his life than Biden?
I don't think you quite appreciate the severity of what's coming.
I'm not saying that that shouldn't be an option. Delaying should be on the table, with a plan for voting by mail.
I have four people on ignore, so I don't know who you are replying to. I'm not black, but I have a lot of neighbors who are, so I can take a stab based on my conversations with them. They remember Republicans trying to kill Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) a few years ago. This resulted in flipping one seat in Congress out of 14 in 2018 and 16 of 236 seats in the state legislature last year. There are other issues and demographic change in Georgia, but that was the big issue that people cared most about.
Bernie's been the most energetic candidate out of the entire field, and look at how he performed BEFORE he had a heart attack.
I don't know if you saw this, which I think I posted above:
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