Biden is only a year younger. Are you ruling him out on the basis of his age too? Also, how do you feel about the “they’re too old, time for them to go” argument when those are applied to folks like Feinstein and Pelosi?
I’m not advocating for Bernie to run or to be the nominee (I think there may be candidates better-positioned to most effectively appeal to the broadest range of potential Democratic voters) but I don’t find the age argument very compelling in any of these cases.
At any rate, my comment wasn’t about whether Bernie should run or not, it was about why Obama is smart to engage with Bernie. Perhaps we agree on that?
OK, well, points for consistency then, I guess. I respectfully disagree that either of them are too old (though I see both of them as less-than-ideal candidates for other reasons).
And as far as “too white” I’m not sure quite what is intended by that statement. Are you suggesting that we should rule out all white candidates? Or are some white people “too white” but others somehow are not?
Our voter base is African American voters. Furthermore, the thing that set off the right was Obama. I would like to keep putting African Americans in the White House from now on.
No - some white people are whiter than others but they are all too white.
The best candidate to beat Trump in 2020 might turn out to be an African American, or might turn out to be someone else.
I’m for whatever candidate is best positioned to beat Trump, be they black or white, hispanic or anglo, old or young, male or female, etc, etc.
That being said, if the winning candidate is a minority and/or a woman, so much the better. And there are several good candidates out there who fit one or both categories. I just wouldn’t rule anyone in or out based on their race (or for that matter, gender, etc).
Sen. Gary Peters first ran in Michigan for the Senate in 2014. He chose to campaign with Obama and, as a result:
He was the only non-incumbent Democrat to win a 2014 Senate election and the only Senate freshman from the Democratic Party in the 114th Congress.[3][4]
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I am sick and tired of our hiding our best political talents under bushel baskets because the Republicans might yell about it.
