@triciact, it also seems Biden might be doing this for his son, Beau. I read somewhere that when his son was diagnosed with the terminal brain tumor, he still wanted his father to run. Biden remarked in January that Beau should have been the one running for president, not him. Biden said that each morning he wakes up he says to himself, 'Is he proud of me?" As Beau was approaching the end of his life, Biden said Beau was worried that his father would walk away from what he worked for his entire life, and made his father promise that he would stay engaged.
Meanwhile ... the full impact of Warren's departure really hit me last night. I saw her interviewed on Rachel Maddow, and my heart ached. I had a fitful night, and woke up mad as hell. Maybe that anger will be channeled into some positive, productive action.
I do remember hearing that about Beau too now that you mentioned it. I saw Elizabeth on TV and she was holding back tears, her voice sounded shaky. I wanted to cry with her!
So, some idiot unfurled a Nazi flag and shouted anti-semitic slurs at Sanders. An hour ago, Biden tweeted this-
"I don't care who you're supporting; attacks like this against a man who could be the first Jewish President are disgusting and beyond the pale. Hatred and bigotry have no place in America-and it's up to all of us to root out these evils wherever they're found."
He's decent.
He also has out a new ad calling T. the most corrupt president in modern history, and telling him to either release his taxes or shut up.
"I don't care who you're supporting; attacks like this against a man who could be the first Jewish President are disgusting and beyond the pale. Hatred and bigotry have no place in America-and it's up to all of us to root out these evils wherever they're found."
I REALLY like this. If our nation is a desert, these words are a rainstorm rolling by, quenching the land and providing a respite from the dry heat.
I really love Joe Biden and I know he is not perfect but I also know that he operates from a center of benevolence and good will. He wants to empathically connect to people, to feel a connection and have them know he understands. One can look back at votes and policies with the 2020 hindsight and 2020 standards and make many assumptions that do not take into account the context and times they were made in.
He will feel energetically beaten with the attacks on his son Hunter. I would like him to build some psychic barriers to prevent that but I don't know how to express that to him. I don't know how appropriate it is for Republican Senators to go after a political challenger during election season-- would that not be a violation of the Hatch Act?
All this talk about anenquiry into Hunter Biden is a publicity stunt to ry to discredit Bidens campaign. The Ukraine has already investigatedand found nothing. The Reps don't like the answer and want to be disruptive. If the Biden campaing people and the rest of the Dems are smart they will counter with aninvestigation of the trump spawn! Both Joe and Bernie shouldstart talking about them and call out theReps . The squicky wheel gets the grease! Or something like that! Mittens is a coward of the first order andneeds to be publically called one.
As for Elizabeth Warren, I cried during her interview with Rachel the night. She doesn't have to endorce either of the candidates andif I were her I wouldn't. Just say let the guys have at it.
On a weird note, My horoscope this morning was strange. It said "what do you think aleins would think if they visited out planet? What would they think of the way we treat the earth and each other?" Who writes these things!
I enter contests where I have to search, so I googled Joe Biden and the first several things were negative; such as JB dementia.
Yes the online disinformation campaign has been on for a while. Seriously ironic since we actually do have a dementia laden crazy nut right in front of us every day as POTUS. It's truly unreal.
Yang endorses Biden. Will be interesting to see if that might bring some younger voters over to him.
Well, I am watching the debate and wish Biden wasn't coughing right now.