Bravo. Well said.
People need to stop talking about Warren getting the VP slot. Why would she be an “excellent VP”? And it’s a nothing job, who cares if they’re excellent anyways? And do you really want the Dems to run the angry grandpa-grandma ticket?
The only reason I see, is to backdoor her into the presidential nom in 4 years. After that Bernie will be too old and she’ll be a spry 74 years old! Yugh.
She’s a good Senator. Quit trying to find her a new job.
warren and sanders have a non aggression pact. they will not attack each other.
Bloomberg’s first debate savaging didn’t seem to change his polling.
All I saw was a complete shitshow that was literally incomprehensible quite often. I blame that on the moderators, but the desperation of the candidates was also on very much on display.
I still don’t think they went after Sanders hard enough. Warren and Sanders obviously have some behind the scenes agreement going on. I am starting to believe after the “a woman can’t be president” incident he dealed out a VP slot to get her to shut up.
Impact on me as a center Left Democrat who has been no fan of Sanders:
Bloomberg does not have what it takes.
Biden might after all.
I am more optimistic about the prospects with a Sanders led ticket than I was.
Mods need to act more like sports refs and **decisively **clamp down and enforce the rules. Cut off candidates **hard **when they exceed time, enforce some no-interrupting rule.
Then why does she keep on saying that while they generally agree on what needs doing, she’s the one who gets stuff done, and he’s the one who just yells a lot?
Why would she want to be VP? Treasury secretary or Fed chair, maybe.
The other thing is, with the importance of minority turnout to the Dems’ potential success, an all-white ticket in 2020 would be an own goal, just as it was in 2016.
What’s with Warren bringing up the debunk story she was fired for being pregnant? Was it to get the line in about ‘kill it’’ aimed to Bloomberg?
Naked. Cowboy. Can Bloomers be any more obviously a Republican shill?
I thought Pete looked like the smart kid in a fist fight most of last night.
I’ve already mailed my ballot. It doesn’t matter for me, Colorado will go “not-billionaire Blue” no matter what I say, and I can live with any of those choices. The hardest part was deciding whether to fill out the Republican ballot in favor one of the Not Trump Republicans (the magic of being Unaffiliated), or vote for my favorite Dem.
I don’t find Pete as 3-D printed as you describe. I think he is smart, talented, and competent as a politician. I think his heart and mind are in the right place. Perhaps, not in the right time.
As to Bernie’s ‘upside of Castro’s Cuba’ comments, I find them to be the opposite of a smart political move. I appreciate his integrity of sticking to his opinions, but they do not serve him one iota. Never have. Never will. There is no political or rhetorical up side to informing everyone for years running that ‘Say what you will, but Cuba under Castro was a very literate society’.
Cite that it is debunked? Sounds like right wing bubble nonsense.
Doesn’t seem like it will ever be verifiable but it doesn’t seem debunked either.
It’s not debunked. Early versions of the story have her quitting work to raise a baby, as do school board notes; but school board notes even back in 1970 wouldn’t say “We fire any woman who gets pregnant,” and “firing” someone by asking for their resignation is so ubiquitous it doesn’t require explanation. She’s explained the very slight discrepancy by saying that she’s felt she could open up about her past since becoming a senator.
Not to mention Massachusetts has a Republican Governor who’ll be able to nominate a short term replacement (I think a special election has to be called within 160 days of a vacancy).
Four or eight years from now, Buttigieg will be a much more formidable presidential candidate.
This, pretty much. Considering that Bernie is going to great lengths to point out that “Democratic socialism is*** not at all ***the same as what happened in Cuba or Venezuela,” why is he then even mentioning Cuba at all? This would be like a Republican claiming that he doesn’t support fascism, yet trying to point out how Hitler improved Germany’s economy.
It looks like it was Mayor Pete I heard:
I hope it is, in fact, just a cold.
Sure - apologies if that seemed to imply that was all there was to Buttigieg. I only mean to say that one thing that Buttigieg does is say things that are very calculated, and very abstract, and that “truth is truth” strikes me as something that would really sell well as one of those. My point was about a hypothetical reaction by a hypothetical Slacker-analog to a hypothetical Buttigieg who said this particular thing.
It is my belief that if a time-travelling wizard took the statements “In politics, truth isn’t truth” and “I appreciate his integrity of sticking to his opinions, but they do not serve him one iota. Never have. Never will.” back in time 6 months to when Democrats expected this primary season to go very differently, center-left Democrats would consider these overwhelmingly distasteful, Republicany and post-truth things to say. If the wizard added the additional context that these were statements made about the “truth” and the “opinion” that helping kids learn to read is good, even if a socialist is doing it, I’m pretty sure I would have to give you more than a few guesses before you said “oh! Those will be our opinions!”
He was answering a question specifically about Cuba. You knew that, though, right? You knew that he mentioned Cuba because Anderson Cooper said to him “hey what about your stance on Cuba in the 80s.” It isn’t really like your example at all, is it?
Okay, so it’s for some other position, whatever. I personally think picking Warren as VP would be idiotic, but I wouldn’t put that past Bernie either.
Fact is, if she’s sticking to a “non-aggression pact” with Bernie at this point in the game, she does NOT want to be President.
She has almost no chance at this point. Distant third her best finish in all the opening votes. 538 is giving her 1% chance of even a plurality. I don’t think she’d need to be bribed to take one for team lefty and keep up the Bloomberg attacks.