|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) |
DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 10:57 PM Original message |
Biden explains why Gore, Kerry lost: Failed to convince voters they could keep America safe |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. . |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Me. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 11:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Totally |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
iconocrastic (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
35. Biden missed the memo: "The elections were stolen." |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yeah, did biden mention the |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
murbley40 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:17 AM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Did He say anything that was not true? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Me. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 10:12 AM Response to Reply #20 |
42. Well For One Thing |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 02:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
60. 1. That Al Gore lost the election as opposed to the selection. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
iconocrastic (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
37. "Did he mention if Gore would have gotten his rightful place in the White HOuse ... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jillan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. not cool! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. Psst, Joe, this crap doesn't help you, it really doesn't. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
6. Yeah, Joe, because the republican Party won't accuse you of treason |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:31 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Not to mention - if you are arguing that you have communication skills, |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:06 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Excellent post karynnj! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:40 AM Response to Reply #18 |
28. Thank you |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:30 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. I guess Joe thinks that, if the media had him as the nominee, they would report what he said justly. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Cameron27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 12:49 PM Response to Reply #16 |
51. Very good post karynnj, |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 02:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
61. I believe he's afraid Al Gore will get in the race now, and |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
LearnedHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. Time to blow the dust off the reason why he didn't win his own presidential bid in the early 90s |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Think82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 11:38 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. what koolaid have YOU been drinking, dude? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:57 AM Response to Reply #7 |
36. lol nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
AlGore-08.com (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
9. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat the past... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
MalloyLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
10. Geezus what a dumbass |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. psst. joe biden. get a clue. neither dem "lost". the election was stolen--haven't you heard? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Milo_Bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 03:13 AM Response to Original message |
12. Is he kidding??? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Apollo11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 04:15 AM Response to Original message |
13. Why did Al Gore lose the 2000 election? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 04:17 AM Response to Original message |
14. National Security Wasn't The Issue In 00 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 04:57 AM Response to Original message |
15. This is pretty much what I'd expect from this guy. What an ass. Gore and |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
17. Sounds like a pretty republican explanation. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:10 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. 35 years ago, Joe would have been a perfectly respectable moderate Republican. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
21. Nice of Biden to slam Gore and Kerry. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
murbley40 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:23 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. He was not slamming anybody. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:26 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Kerry actually did a pretty good job at that, and, as far as I remember, Biden was one of his main |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
LittleClarkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 12:47 PM Response to Reply #23 |
50. Indeed. The national security debate, the first one with Bush, was Kerry's strongest |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
mrigirl (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 01:13 PM Response to Reply #23 |
53. Biden advised Kerry in what to say during his speeches |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 01:59 PM Response to Reply #53 |
57. And I have to disagree with Joe and you. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 05:30 PM Response to Reply #53 |
65. In all Campaigns it is rarely the candidate who makes the sharpest attacks, in 2004 it was |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
PatSeg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 07:24 PM Response to Reply #53 |
70. Also the attitude of voters has changed dramatically |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ellacott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:33 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. I agree |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:35 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Given Biden was his main adviser on foreign policy, he must be blaming himself... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ellacott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:42 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. If there were foreign policy gaffes that cost Kerry the election you would be right |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:45 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Same thing was true for Gore and same thing would be true for Biden were he the nominee. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ellacott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:48 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. They also said Michelle Obama attacked HRC when she didn't n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:50 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Exactly, but apparently Biden misses the point totally. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ellacott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:51 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Kerry's camp made many mistakes |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:53 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. And Biden will make many - No need to attack Kerry and Gore. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ellacott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:59 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. It could have been said differently |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 10:09 AM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Kerry has been as straight on issues as Biden |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 10:45 AM Response to Reply #33 |
44. They actually made relatively few mistakes compared to most campaigns |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 10:16 AM Response to Reply #31 |
43. The difference is that she didn't - though bringing up the fact that |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
mrigirl (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 01:20 PM Response to Reply #30 |
56. CNN is biased. Are you really going to believe everything they say? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 10:04 AM Response to Reply #29 |
40. I agree with you on Iraq, but on the WoT, I think they did get it out there |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Bo Bike (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 07:39 PM Response to Reply #29 |
71. Kerry’s 04 loss was because of fear. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
mrigirl (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 01:16 PM Response to Reply #27 |
54. no he's not- |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
riqster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
24. OK, Biden can go to Hell as far as I am concerned. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
iconocrastic (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
39. Joe, you're not going to get a chance to debate the Republican candidate |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
45. Biden just likes to hear himself talk: |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jillan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 12:40 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Ugh - |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
46. The myth on national security has to be addressed, it doesn't matter what one thinks of Joe Biden. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 12:44 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. We can start by stop giving credence |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 12:53 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. That would be a good thing for the issue organizations to take up. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 05:48 PM Response to Reply #46 |
66. I agree with your point, not Joe's |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
LittleClarkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
48. On the contrary, that's when Kerry STARTED to convince people |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
kad7777 (339 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
55. JOE BIDEN is absolutely right!! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
PatSeg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 07:15 PM Response to Reply #55 |
69. Biden wasn't saying |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
AX10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
58. In the real world, both would have won by double digit margins... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ellacott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 02:09 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Very good point n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 06:55 PM Response to Reply #58 |
67. My thoughts, exactly... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
62. Well, He Just Dropped To The Bottom |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
sandrakae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
63. The elections were stolen. Biden needs to STFU. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
64. The only Democrat who craves a microphone more than Biden is Lieberman. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ginchinchili (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
68. As usual, he's right. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Fri Apr 26th 2024, 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC