Democratic Primaries
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/13/why-joe-biden-is-antidote-this-virus/Joe Biden isnt inspiring. He fluttered some hearts when he first ran in 1987, but he is far less inspirational now, at 77, than he was in his prime. Thats part of the reason, despite his far-above-the-rest résumé, that Bidens candidacy stumbled before it succeeded. Democrats were looking for something new and improved before they recognized it was time to settle for Biden.
This is all fine better than fine, actually. If 1964 was a time for choosing, as Ronald Reagan put it when he went on TV to argue for Barry Goldwater, 2020 is a time for settling, in the multiple senses of that word. It is a time for settling on a candidate whom a broad majority of Democrats, and Americans, can agree. Its a time for settling the country down, after three-plus years of ugliness and the divisiveness that both preceded and created the Trump phenomenon. It is a time for settling for Biden.
Biden is candidate as comfort food, calming and familiar. After flirtations with the new (Pete Buttigieg), the provocative (Bernie Sanders) and the planner (Elizabeth Warren), Biden is, it turns out, the one weve been waiting for. He is not the candidate, and would not be the president, of hope and change; he is the avatar of normalcy.
This was, even before the coronavirus, Bidens fundamental argument: that his would be a restoration presidency of American values, of Americas place in the world. And, perhaps even more, of a president who does not whip through three White House chiefs of staff and three national security advisers (Trump is on his fourth, in both cases); who does not tweet and attack incessantly; who can be counted on, if not for the bold, persistent experimentation of an FDR, then at least for capable governance. Bidens campaign this summer and fall will not be a battle for adopting Medicare-for-all. It will be, as he said in announcing his candidacy, a battle for the soul of this nation, a rejection of an administration he described as an aberrant moment in time.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
showblue22
(1,026 posts)Biden is a good man, no one can dispute that and if they do.. no one believes it. Joe is decency, love, and competence.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Thekaspervote
(34,547 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
showblue22
(1,026 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
No Vested Interest
(5,193 posts)smart enough to begin the huge job of putting our government and our nation back together.
And his smart, lovely wife Jill will be a great and supportive First Lady.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
pazzyanne
(6,599 posts)My number one reason for supporting him! I am sick and tired of incompetence running this nation.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
onetexan
(13,889 posts)Whether you like him or not, there's no denying he is the supremely competent, experienced, decent leader we need at this time in nation's history. No other candidate has that level of experience and trust. We have a bunch of idiots running the government in slipshod fashion. We need his steady and firm leadership to restore normalcy.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dansolo
(5,379 posts)Bernie is just like Trump in one significant way - he surrounds himself by sycophants who's main attribute is loyalty to him. I don't see Bernie bringing in capable people to staff the government because for him it is ideology and loyalty over everything else.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(305,118 posts)to let us know that they think "Joe isn't inspiring.. " he Inspired voters enough to get them to them pols in SC and the two Super Tuesdays.
And, Democracy inspirers the hell out me. I'm not "settling for Joe Biden".. he was my candidate from the very beginning.. I saw something there.
Good article, though.. Thank you, Celerity
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
True Blue American
(18,152 posts)Very inspiring, but what do I know? Hmm? Oh, yes I choose men with his calm, trustworthy, reliable personality in my own life!
Works for me!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(305,118 posts)we do.. years of experience.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
True Blue American
(18,152 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Skittles
(158,573 posts)he's certainly NOT the one I've been waiting for.......it was more the absolute disgust with Trump that drove the vote, not any excitement for Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
showblue22
(1,026 posts)He is beloved by many. Negative attacks on him also drove people to the polls. It energized his base to stand in line hours upon hours to vote.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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I, and many others, were energized by UTTER DISGUST for Trump. *PERIOD*
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
True Blue American
(18,152 posts)Understand real, honest, secure, reliable men.
Joe is the one I have been praying for ever since the Con man managed to make his way into the WhiteHouse!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Skittles
(158,573 posts)I understand Joe *VERY* well
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
SunSeeker
(53,582 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
question everything
(48,734 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden