The coincidence is that she obviously was interviewing for the job when the NY Times published the article. Do they not have ethic guidelines about this? If I were to announce to my newspaper bosses that:
I’m interviewing for the Head of PR at Walmart, and
I’m co-authoring an article about how the son of a Presidential candidate maybe profited from his relationship with Eddie Lambert of Sears
… should I not be yanked off the story for potential conflict of interest issues? Would I, as the ethics ombudsman (or whatever) at the NY Times, be remiss if I weren’t concerned that the article was biased due to the nature of the new job I was looking for?
The woman admitted to beating 4k candidates. She didn’t roll in between rushes and fill out a 2-page app when the manager was available. This was in the works prior to the article being published, and yet the NY Times never saw fit to let the readership know that one of the authors had a financial stake in pleasing Ukrainian officials, even ones about to be elected.
Well, yes she probably should have been yanked from the story but that is a different matter. It’s not even much of a “hit piece”, it’s background on a story Trump allies have been pushing already.
Biden posted some impressive numbers in a new Quinnipiac poll of Texas. He was the only one with a clear lead over Trump, something not even Beto or Castro can claim: Poll Results | Quinnipiac University Poll
At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious, we’ll know a lot more about Biden’s strength and durability toward the end of summer. My hunch (my fear?) is that Biden will turn in some weak debate performances and he’ll start to fall back in with the other front-runners.
My hunch is that if anyone has his own lane it’s Bernie Sanders. If Biden slips up, I suspect that voters will consider other candidates like Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, and Elizabeth Warren. However, Sanders is the one candidate who really has a committed voting base. Other candidates may have co-opted some of his platform, but he’s selling political revolution, and he comes across as authentic.
My other hunch is that Pete Buttigieg might be a bit stronger than people realize at the moment. Just to be clear, I’m not predicting President Buttigieg, but there is a lot of interest over this guy and he performs well on camera.
My taxes pay for a bunch of things that I don’t morally agree with. I was going to bring up the death penalty as an example, but apparently Biden supports capital punishment. Why do we care about this dude, again?
It’s interesting: what’s mentioned there is apparently meant to show Biden as naïve; that he just doesn’t get it; that he’s being sincere as a guy who could get GOP votes. And all of this is leveled at him as criticism.
But say a cynic saw the same stuff and said, “I don’t think he’s naïve; I think he’s acting. I think he thinks ‘anti-Trump’ is enough to unite Dems behind the nominee; and, as he’s already ahead in the polls, he figures he just needs to appeal to other voters in the general. So he talks like a business-friendly moderate who thinks both sides will compromise in a reach across the aisle; but he’s disingenuous, since he couldn’t possibly be stupid enough to actually believe it. He’s presumbly doing it because he thinks it’s sensible to give that wrong impression.”
Which of those would be a more negative view of Biden?
Yes, and when you allow crazy people to buy assault weapons, you take away my choice to not get shot. Yet you seem perfectly OK with denying me the right to make that choice.
This means he is running to the right of every Democratic candidate since at least Bill Clinton, possibly earlier.
Politically, though, it makes sense. I think the reality for the foreseeable future is that states that want to prohibit abortion are going to find a way to do so. It’s up to people to decide if they want to live in these states.
"During a campaign event in New Hampshire, the former vice president joked — again — about touching women after a female supporter leaned in to whisper in his ear.
“I want the press to know, she pulled me close,” Biden said, as the older, almost entirely white crowd laughed and applauded. The comment drew immediate backlash from feminists and left-leaning progressives, many of whom took issue with Biden’s cavalier attitude toward the allegations against him in lieu of a direct apology."
I don’t see why his approval numbers are so high and I’d very much prefer Warren or Pete over him.
I don’t dislike him. But he should just go back home.
Yeah, he runs the risk of being tone deaf here. Maybe less time in front of the camera isn’t a bad idea, given his history of saying cringe-worthy things in front of a live mic.