2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Biden has no right to stop the first female president [View all]
have you guys seen this latest talking point? The people who don't want biden to run, and I can only give an educated guess that most of them are Hillary supporters, they tried a few other things first. First it was well we don't want to rush him because he's grieving his son. And then when they couldn't squeeze any more milk out of that coconut, they moved onto well it's gonna be too late and he's not gonna be able to get the funding he needs. But apparently he may be on the verge of getting support from the firefighters union, and it's looking like he's got a number of supporters who feel he can get the funding and infrastructure, so that meme is played.
so now the big stick comes out: guilt. I've heard a number of so-called pundits on the shows these last few days saying that there isn't a lot of policy difference between Biden and Clinton, and since Clinton had such a "strong performance" in the debate, her chance of imploding is smaller, and I love how they act as if bernie he's not even running and drawing crowds of tens of thousands. But now the newest talking point. Since there is not much policy difference between them, does he REALLY want to be the person who stands in the way of the first female president?
again the gender card comes out. First it came out in the debate and now it's coming out in trying to guilt Biden into not running. I thought we were supposed to elect people based on their qualifications and abilities. And besides that, I'm not a fan of Biden's policies, but he's been through quite a lot with his son's death, and trying to guilt him into not running because he would be "standing in the way of the first female president" is not only bad politics because it's gonna backfire big-time, but a really shitty thing to do. Not that it's a surprise.
edit to add link
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/clinton-quietly-trying-discourage-biden-2016-bid/