You make a great point. Biden did exactly what he was supposed to – pivoted the conversation away from real change to ensure our corporate overlords remain happy. Thank you, Democratic Establishment!
Doesn’t change anything, of course – its Biden or Bust now. Beating Trump is critical.
As a reminder, Bernie Sanders is an elected member of the US Senate. That gives him opportunities every day to speak out and have conversations, hopefully more effectively than on a message board.
By the way, he’s also free to write all the damn bills he wants to implement those changes.
Trump about to go after Biden with major ad campaign. I’m guessing part of it is he’s a career politician. May even bring up his sons cocaine use
Why did Biden announce a female VP? Maybe he thought it was a good idea.
Donny is demonstrably scared shitless of Biden, so much so that he was impeached for his efforts. Ad campaign? Meh. I hope Biden has a VERY good security detail and brave food tasters. Maybe I should poll Dopers on the odds for both being alive in November.
Don’t know if you’ve thought of this, or maybe you think “Sexist” is a One way charge, but what he did when announcing that he WOULD pick a woman, is in essence announcing that no Man, no matter how good, would ever be picked even over the worst woman. That IS Sexist.
Are you somehow thinking that we solve Sexism by simply reversing who we become sexist against?
Why do I feel an MRA hijack about to commence?
Our maybe he’d already determined that the best candidates were women.
There is nothing sexist at all about saying that you want your VP to be a woman. It simply states that a female perspective is important enough to you that it will outweigh any other slight differences in overall “scores” when evaluating your choices. It could only be seen as objectionable if you believe:
(a) there is no possible value to be placed on having a different perspective in the office of the VP
OR
(b) there is no female candidate whose qualifications put her within whatever value you place on (a) of the best male candidate (implicit within this is that there no chance that the best candidate is actually a woman)
Biden has placed a certain value on (a) and is very confident that there are multiple female candidates that are qualified enough to be VP. And that’s without going into the obvious and inarguable electoral benefit of a female VP candidate, as well as any tactical arguments about changing debate topics, news cycles, etc.
Biden should pick the one man he could get away with selecting at this time…Barack Obama.
While Obama cannot legally run for president, the law does not forbid him from running for VP.
Trump and the far right would throw a fit.
The Obama-Pence debate would be a complete joke!!!
It’s probably because of the sexual assault, his history of groping women and his lack of appeal with younger voters.
Obama is not eligible. ( realize there’s a debate about that)
The 12th Amendment concludes:
I would love to see Obama on the ticket, but I’m sure Obama has no interest. (and probably isn’t’ eligible.)
If Trump wins this year will he blame all his problems on the Trump 1st term admin?
There’s an obvious solution that the left would just eat up with a spoon.
Have Islee publicly state that he identifies as a woman. Problem solved!
It’s long, long past time for a woman prez and VP. It’s entirely reasonable to take that into account when considering choices.
I think Inslee has done a pretty good job as governor. Before he even locked down the State, he got buy in from Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing and other business leaders to initiate mandatory work from home corporate policies within 72 hours.
However, I don’t see him with national star power. Certainly hasn’t dominated like Cuomo.
I agree. But I see no advantage of announcing it so early in the campaign. He didn’t need to do it to win the primary. As others have said, keep your options open and if it turns out to be a woman when a pick is announced this summer, great.
No surprise , he is vetting Amy Klobuchar
Maybe he didn’t need to make this commitment so early in the campaign nor to win the primary. BUT the move knocked out Sanders, and prevented a repeat of 4 years ago where it was dueling banjos to the Democratic Convention.
Add it to one of Hillary’s failings was the inability to stop Sanders months earlier.
The best qualified is Susan Rice, although I doubt he will pick her.
In fairness it seems the decision for Sanders to coalesce around Biden was far easier for him to do because they are personal friends.
You could look at that cynically as an example of the old boys club. But another way is that networking seems to be Biden’s biggest strength. He ran against Obama in the 2008 Primary but they became arguably the closest POTUS-VP team ever. He ran to help defeat his longtime friend John McCain who remained his friend and who was eulogized by Biden (and Obama) at his funeral. He had a bruising political battle with Sanders which is now over and they are now working together to defeat the common enemy in November. If Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running mate it would be another example of how somebody who for a short period was a formidable opponent turns into his partner. He has political opponents but Trump is probably his first real enemy. Hillary had enemies for twenty years.