Anyone know if I can I get the debate through YouTube or the CNN app?
I ditched cable.
Opponents are not often running mates.
Obama picked an opponent, and so did Kerry. ISTM that it’s pretty frequent.
So did Reagan.
Biden dropped out so fast that he was hardly a opponent. I dont think he even debated Obama, but I could be wrong. Joe withdrew right after the first caucus.
But yeah Kerry did.
Per CNN’s website:
The debate will air exclusively on CNN, CNN en Español, CNN International and CNN Airport Network and will stream live in its entirety, without requiring log-in to a cable provider, exclusively to CNN.com’s homepage, across mobile devices via CNN’s apps for iOS and Android, and via CNNgo apps for Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast and Android TV. The debate will also air live at DesMoinesRegister.com and Democrats.org, and can be heard on CNN’s SiriusXM XChannels and the Westwood One Radio Network.
Thank you
No, he’s the friend of the banks and the credit card companies. He merely doesn’t give a shit about the people on the other end.
Were the credit card companies spending the Obama years pressuring lawmakers for even more onerous provisions to be put into the law? Not to my knowledge. “Who he is” is the guy who’s sticking up for the credit card companies, taking their side against the rest of us. But if they feel they’ve already won the war, then that’s where he is too.
I got it wrong.
The debate was boring. Doesn’t change the dynamics before Iowa.
Warren refused to shake Bernies hand.
CNN is being criticized for favoring Warren and the others and putting down Sanders.
Audio picked up from the mics
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/15/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-debate-audio/index.html
I have mixed feeling about Bloomberg but so think he’s going to be, as they say, a game changer.
First, he’s REALLY rich, almost 20 times richer than Trump claims to be and over 30 times richer than Steyer. And he seems really determined to defeat Trump at any cost. That is a very good thing. Vanity Fair did a short piece call “Inside Mike Bloomberg’s Plan to Drive Trump Insane”.
Frankly, I think the Democrats need something big if they are going to beat Trump, and that something just might be Bloomberg’s money. And Judge Judy. Now, THATS playing to the Trump base.
I wasn’t a big fan of Bloomberg when he was mayor although I warmed to him a bit when I found out he was pretty much keeping the New York City Public Library solvent via anonymous donations ( it’s mentioned in the Atlantic article I’m about to link to but I knew previously through friends that work for the Library - they weren’t supposed to know but everyone knew.
The Atlantic did an insightful article on Bloomberg and how he not only used his wealth to get elected but he used his wealth to fund and drive public policy while in office with tactics including funding new policy initiatives out of his own pocket and founding and funding nonprofits to promote his policy initiatives.
Link
It may be paywalled for some, here’s an excerpt.
“Part of Bloomberg’s sales pitch is that his personal wealth (he’s worth an estimated 56 billion ) makes him incorruptible. Not only is he unbribeable; being rich enough not to take political contributions he can assume office unbeholden to donors. But Bloomberg is so rich he shifts the direction of political influence. Donors may not be able to buy influence but he can use his wealth to push things in the direction he wants.
Bloomberg spent extensively as mayor of New York. He gave massive sums to nonprofit organizations and arts groups. (Snip for brevity)…His company, Bloomberg LP, made many corporate contributions that lined up with his political interests. The money kept coming and coming and coming. It broke logjams and wore down institutional resistance. His money allowed him to drown out the opposition - and often made political rivals hold their tongue.
The timely and balanced budgets Bloomberg touted each year in PowerPoint presentations were enabled on part by spending cuts to groups that were then made whole again by the most transparent of donations.”
Jonathan Turley is a big Sanders supporter.
The flip side of this is that the rich float way above the things that trouble the rest of us, often to the point of being oblivious to their very existence. You aren’t going to try to solve problems that you are unaware of.
I won’t go so far as to say that every billionaire is a policy failure, but to far too great a degree, we’ve abandoned solutions of public problems to the philanthropic whims of exceedingly rich people. This is what happens when we let a relative handful of people and corporations suck a good chunk of the money out of our economy.
This won’t work at a national level, needless to say.
I think in general, the media have been treating Bernie more fairly this time around. But that’s just extraordinarily biased moderating.
Bernie Bros are now threatening to sit out the election if Biden is the nominee.
This is exactly why we need to get rid of Sanders. :mad:
This linked article is basically right wing concern trolling. Chances are that with a little effort a reporter could find a few supporters of every candidate who has similar feelings.
Two comments:
(1) Being an “IT professional” does not imply political intelligence. My experience has been that many of the most virulent and ignorant political opinions come from electronic techs, or IT professionals.
(2) In what perverted universe are “billionaires” the “enemy”?? 
IIRC, Gates, Buffett, Soros (and Bloomberg? Steyer?) are all on record as agreeing with Sanders/Warren in thinking taxes on the rich should be higher.
Most billionaires are successful entrepreneurs. Are successful artists also the “enemy”? How about successful athletes?
Sure, some billionaires are assholes. But some laid-off coal-miners are assholes too. It’s garbage nonsense from The Left like “billionaires are the enemy” that helps motivate confused right-wing thinking.
Iowa and Nevada using mobile apps to collect caucus results