Cory Booker and the other Democrats need to stick to pounding on Trump for all his outrageous statements and lack of apologies.
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True. Their desperation is obvious.
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This.
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That occurred to me but I think itās more a thing where certain big shots and people who fancy themselves big shots become used to the idea that theyāre right about most things. Biden is very much unlike Trump in every way that could possibly matter.
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Here is what Booker actually said. Nothing Booker should apologize for.
"You donāt joke about calling black men āboys,āā Corey Booker said. āMen like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to perpetuate white supremacy and strip black Americans of our very humanity.ā
Joe Hands should apologize and drop out.
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If Biden starts apologizing, thatās all heāll be doing for as long as he running. He really knows how to step in it, lots of experience.
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I donāt think Bookerās viewpoint is about āeating their ownā. I watched Booker last night on CNN. His sincerity and clarity about why the statement āHe didnāt call me boy, he called me sonā is so hurtful was poignant, and for Biden to not acknowledge that and to call for Booker to apologize is a failure on Bidenās part.
I like Biden, but I like him best in a supporting role. I know heās not a racist, but I do think that heās out of touch on this issue.
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Here we have no need for presidents who are befuddled white men with foggy notions of how to behave towards othersā¦ Weāll hold our noses and vote for him if he claims the nomination - but more and more hoping we wonāt have to.
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True, but I think thereās a comfortably wide space between that and just noting that a particular candidate has certain weaknesses. Weāre hiring for a job here.
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His legislative record and the extreme harm that his crime bills have caused to the African-American community would suggest otherwise.
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Biden is presumably calculating that picking a fight with the Democratic base will endear him to centrist Dems and Republicans. This may or may not work for him. But itās not only his candidacy thatās at stake: the unity of the Democratic party as we head into a crucial election is also stake. In this sense, Biden is a menace. The last thing we need, in an election that will hinge on partisan turnout, is a divisive Democratic candidate.
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And thereās Uncle Joe, heās a movinā kinda slow at the election.
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While I agree with you in spirit, thereās a limit, right? Weāre watching an experiment in real time to try and see if thereās something awful the frontrunner can say that wonāt drastically change the race. We know the GOP is happy to overlook the awful. Are we any better than the GOP?
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āThe Dowager Empress of South Carolinaāā¦ LOL Priceless! Took me three minutes to scrape my howling self up from the floor before I could reply.
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And why should he apologize? His point is that for government to work, individuals have to work across lines, even āred linesā. Not tolerate them, not venerate them, not applaud them, just work with them. Everything our obstructionist, non-functional, government is NOT today.
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Iāve strongly opposed Biden for 2020 as way too conservative on the issues and a (twice!) proven God awful presidential candidate. This incident well illustrates both problems. But in addition, it shows that Biden is not only oblivious and ignorant of the modern world in general but the Democratic base in particular. Worse, he just doesnāt care and appears to be personally odious and shameless as wellāodious and shameless enough be a Republican. (I also think Biden is ridiculously old to run. Iām 65, so no ageist. Though, TBH, that may be driven by biasāI strongly back Warren and, though a bit younger, her age is problematic as well.)
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Bear with me here but I think the kind of thing that squares that circle is AND THIS IS AN EXAMPLE Betoās comment about how he supports the ball players who took a knee but understands people who find that objectionable. It went viral because, I think, it left people at least feeling heard, or maybe we imagine and hope that it might. At any rate it seemed like an approach people liked. Itās a form of outreach, of striving for a less divided polity, that at least seeks for commonalities weād all endorse to some extent. Biden saying āYou know Iām not a divider because I could work and make nice with segregationistsā doesnāt quite accomplish that. Itās just not as deft, or as easy to justify.
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I missed the memo when Biden became just as hated as Bernie on the boards.
But I guess it must be out there, because when even our ānormalā folks are running along with the trolls in lock-goose-step hereā¦
Roosevelt met with Stalin during WWII.
Can you see Trump meeting up with a nemesis to negotiate taking out a third enemy?
Thatās Bidenās point here.
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That goes too far. Our civic duty is to choose the best candidate possible. Many of us thought from the beginning that Biden wasnāt that.
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And itās one thing to think that, I happen to agree. But seeing bernie-level hating going on? WTF is going on here, or did everyoneās account get hacked and itās just straight russkie trolls speaking in everyoneās name.
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