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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am an old white guy and I would strongly prefer a black woman be named by Joe as
his VP candidate. There is no shortage of qualified black women and IT IS TIME!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)safeinOhio
(32,687 posts)Please let it happen.
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)Borchkins
(724 posts)(Old white woman here)
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Demsrule86
(68,582 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)a good choice.
cornball 24
(1,477 posts)raging moderate
(4,305 posts)She was great at the hearings.
ancianita
(36,060 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)except I'm an old white gal
empedocles
(15,751 posts)in the Congress. Winning is the key.
Cary
(11,746 posts)It would be nice to have some unity. If having a Nazi in the White House doesn't constitute a unifying event, what does?
CurtEastPoint
(18,647 posts)dware
(12,388 posts)chooses a ham on rye bread sandwich, the ham sandwich would do a better job than the Mango Menace.
I too, am an old white guy, but I'm still just as feisty as I was when I was an active duty Marine.
Cirque du So-What
(25,941 posts)It is indeed time.
ooky
(8,923 posts)And also, I want to win.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Whatever race or gender that individual might be.
THAT'S the main task at hand and priority here!
coti
(4,612 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Meadowoak
(5,547 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)She has an energy that would compliment Biden. She was the only one consistently talking about social justice. She will have black support, though Biden easily has that too.
I think Warren energy would be very positive and she knows how to work the system and work with Democrats and would be a real asset to Biden.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)I can focus on the broader purpose which is getting rid of tRUMP...
Aristus
(66,381 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)A Brand New World
(1,119 posts)Kamala Harris is my 1st choice, Val Demings as 2nd.
Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)while Demings comes from a swing state. Plus Harris' record as a prosecutor may work against her with progressives and African Americans.
radius777
(3,635 posts)and has never held statewide office, thus no guarantee she can help win FL.
Biden himself is from a solid blue state when Obama chose him... it's not about that anymore but the person who the nominee feels will compliment them best.
Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)She did flip a GOP seat in 16. She might not ensure winning Florida but she gives the ticket a better shot than Harris does.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)She is always taking pot shots at Barr. She wants to kick his ass badly.
dameatball
(7,398 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)MFM008
(19,814 posts)but I still like Elizabeth Warren BUT
I will support our ticket no matter what.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)ditto!
wendyb-NC
(3,327 posts)patphil
(6,180 posts)My current choices are:
Elizabeth Warren for Vice-President
Kamala Harris or Katie Porter for Attorney General
Stacy Abrams for Secretary of State
But, I'm flexible. There are a lot of great women out there, and it's time we had a bunch of them in positions of power.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)and the nation. I will, of course, support Joe and all Democrats no matter who Joe selects.
LiberalArkie
(15,716 posts)yellowwoodII
(616 posts)If there was a black woman out there who was as knowledgeable as Elizabeth Warren, I would agree. I just don't agree with the idea of picking ANY candidate on the basis of some characteristic. I think that Joe Biden needs a strong intellect to be his partner. That would be Elizabeth Warren. She's been preparing to be President for a long time and knows what she's doing.
trof
(54,256 posts)You get the AAs, you get the women, you get the seniors.
Hey, you get a double septuagenarian ticket.
And she's not a Washington insider.
Fresh (sort of) blood.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)And that slug would be infinitely better than Mike Dense or any other Republican up on the ballot.
Man, woman, white, black, yellow, purple, whatever. I'll trust Joe to make the right choice.
Vinca
(50,276 posts)There are so many smart, black women to choose from Joe could pull a name out of a hat and it would be a good choice.
dawn5651
(604 posts)marble falls
(57,099 posts)several others. Make Rice SoS,
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)I think that is a very short list, of 2-4 women. I think Sen Klobuchar is no longer among them due to the events in Minneapolis this week.
Democrats need to energize young people. They are our future, they hold the key to the election. In this time of pandemic and economic fallout, GOP screams of "Socialist!!" carry little weight. Powell and Trump and Mitch have fed corporations welfare, economists across the board acknowledge long term and large additional fiscal measures - payments to citizens directly and to small business as well - are needed, have already begun, and are necessary.
So one of the largest liabilities against Sen Warren has been neutralized. Her only liabilities are her age that makes for an older ticket, and it becomes a regional northeast ticket. But give America her great and expansive mind. It is time for the adults to run our country, and if you find a better pair of experience, policy, and judgment than Biden-Warren, have at it.
suilebhan
(12 posts)This old white guy agrees completely that Joe Biden needs to select a qualified African American woman. Give me Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams or Val Demmings.