(03-15-2020 07:11 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote: This, so far, is looking like a totally scripted "debate".
It's on CNN, what did you expect. My wife got mad at me because I said it was rigged because it's on CNN. I think she's turning into a Dem. JK, there's no way...I think. LOL
(03-15-2020 07:46 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: This is by far the best and most coherent Biden has sounded the entire primary process. Maybe crowd noises give him a problem? Maybe he's hard of hearing and that's why he shouts sometimes. But I haven't seen one even minor gaffe tonight. He seems like he has all his faculties about tonight and is giving pretty detailed answers. That's not to say folks here agree with what he is saying, but the argument that he's already senile is not valid tonight.
I guess you didn't read the thread. His senility is all these posts are talking about.
(03-15-2020 07:46 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: This is by far the best and most coherent Biden has sounded the entire primary process. Maybe crowd noises give him a problem? Maybe he's hard of hearing and that's why he shouts sometimes. But I haven't seen one even minor gaffe tonight. He seems like he has all his faculties about tonight and is giving pretty detailed answers. That's not to say folks here agree with what he is saying, but the argument that he's already senile is not valid tonight.
1. There are only 2 people up there on the podium.
2. There is no audience to react.
3. They are lobbing soft ball questions. Mostly asking, are you going to do these terrible policies that Trump does? Or, how are you going to handle climate change?
4. Nobody is really challenging any answers.
It's all set up not to trigger senile moments. No confrontation to speak of. No yelling. No serious accusations. No pushing back. No need to think quickly.
Biden is also referring to notes, which makes me think he had the questions ahead of time.
He is still tripping over words. He is still answering questions that aren't asked. He just gave a one word answer to a long question.
Is it better than any other performance? Of course. The conditions are better. Does it prove he's not senile? Only if you're a Dem, I suppose.
(This post was last modified: 03-15-2020 08:25 PM by TripleA.)
Biden apparently said he's absolutely going to pick a woman as his VP choice (I stopped watching sorry - now relying on twitter for updates). Could be Klobuchar or Stacey Abrams (two names I've heard tossed about), but I still trust my brother's California sources who say Kamala Harris is going to be the choice. Harris probably won't help him in any states he's not likely to win to begin with, but I still think she's going to be the person because he wants an aggressive VP.
Jake Tapper with an actual question: how do we transition to the GND vision while halting fracking for natural gas, which has managed to reduce our carbon output?
Neither mentioned nuclear. It was all government-imposed efficiency standards.
(03-15-2020 08:34 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: Biden apparently said he's absolutely going to pick a woman as his VP choice (I stopped watching sorry - now relying on twitter for updates). Could be Klobuchar or Stacey Abrams (two names I've heard tossed about), but I still trust my brother's California sources who say Kamala Harris is going to be the choice. Harris probably won't help him in any states he's not likely to win to begin with, but I still think she's going to be the person because he wants an aggressive VP.
If it's Harris or Abrams or Warren, and if he wins, and if after a few months or a year he goes non compos mentos, and there were a 25th Amendment process initiated, and I were in congress (a very unlikely set of conditions), then I wouldn't vote to remove him if he were crawling around and drooling on my shoes.
Klobuchar would be the best of those IMO, except that might lend some credence to the idea that Biden is a moderate or centrist.
(This post was last modified: 03-15-2020 09:05 PM by Owl 69/70/75.)
"...unless the corporations want to employ my son for imaginary positions."
What a doofus. What's he want for us to be dependent on Russian oil too. We NEED petroleum as it drives our economy including our cars and jets that the politicos love to ride in.
What a pendejo. It's funny that there are people that still want to vote for this clown.
"...unless the corporations want to employ my son for imaginary positions."
What a doofus. What's he want for us to be dependent on Russian oil too. We NEED petroleum as it drives our economy including our cars and jets that the politicos love to ride in.
What a pendejo. It's funny that there are people that still want to vote for this clown.
And Petroleum creates the plastic used in their Teslas and iphones. And of course their Teslas and iphone get electricity from coal fired power plants, which produce more greenhouse gases than petroleum.
Hillary promised to put a bunch of coal miners out of work. What 20 years before was perhaps the most Democratic state in the nation, West Virginia, gave her 27%. He's not going to do much better in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas or New Mexico.
After two hours, it's hard not to come to the assessment that Biden knows his way to the situation room, but not much else, and that Sanders sincerely detests America.
Trump ought to be able to crush either of these numbskulls. Somehow I fear that he will manage to make this a very close election.
(03-15-2020 09:04 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote: After two hours, it's hard not to come to the assessment that Biden knows his way to the situation room, but not much else, and that Sanders sincerely detests America.
Trump ought to be able to crush either of these numbskulls. Somehow I fear that he will manage to make this a very close election.
As long as the Dems have California and New York locked up, it will always be a close race for Pubs.
Another reason to eliminate parties and just vote for individuals with individual policies.
(03-15-2020 08:59 PM)bullet Wrote: Hillary promised to put a bunch of coal miners out of work. What 20 years before was perhaps the most Democratic state in the nation, West Virginia, gave her 27%. He's not going to do much better in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas or New Mexico.
