Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumBiden Tells Voters to Look to the Past.
For months, he played the big-talking front-runner, swaggering if rarely steady, hoping voters would not linger long on the tautology of his premise: Joe Biden was the candidate who should win, he told fellow Democrats, because he was the candidate who could win.
So it was with some apparent humility and then plenty of residual swagger that Mr. Biden, days off a fourth-place debacle in Iowa, opened Friday nights debate with an unusual prediction: He would probably do some more losing next week. I took a hit in Iowa, the former vice president allowed. Ill probably take a hit here. (New Hamsphire)
Mr. Biden, in one of several forceful defenses of his long record in Washington, adopted the uncommon political strategy of trumpeting the old ways of doing business, after Mr. Buttigieg urged voters to leave the politics of the past in the past.
The politics of the past, I think, were not all that bad, Mr. Biden said, spending the night ticking off highlights of the Obama administration and his legislative career. He was at least part of the reason, he said, for the following events in American history: the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor; the non-confirmation of Judge Robert H. Bork; and the Iran nuclear deal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/politics/joe-biden-debate-new-hampshire.html
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)presidential admin in past 50 years? Who had a "better" track record?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
greatauntoftriplets
(175,750 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)I'm quite sick of the past.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
jalan48
(13,883 posts)stopped by Centrist politicians appealing to the mythical glory days of the past. These Fascists didn't appear out of thin air, they've been with us for decades slowly creating what we have today. Now we are in a place where some are seriously considering a billionaire who supported the tortuous regime of Bush/Cheney, hoping this will be the Centrist who will save us. It's not looking good.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(145,558 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden