Fair enough. Thanks for the honest responses, Lanny. For certain, I'd rather it be Biden than Bernie, as well. Bernie scares the crap out of me. The entire Socialist movement is a scam, IMO. It may work for awhile, but eventually dissolves in futility.
I wouldn't let Bernie scare you. Even though I support his Medicare for all I don't thing there's a chance in hell that he could get any of his grand schemes enacted into law.
A Sanders presidency won't look drastically different than a Biden presidency. Both will be more liberal than the median of Congress, even if Democrats win the Senate back. So the constraints will come from Congress, not who occupies the Oval Office.
I don't think so tbh... I think Biden is much more likely to basically go back to working within "normal" presidential rules like presidents before Trump for the most part. I think Sanders is pretty much an all or get out of my way type. I think Bernie is looking at Trump and how he has redefined presidential power / authority to mean he can do whatever the heck he wants. I think Bernie would be willing to act in a similar fashion, maybe I'm wrong. Yeah I think under normal circumstances like 8 years ago Bernie and his ideas would have no shot, but Trump has set a precedent for extreme presidents to basically ignore things and to find ways to do what they want to do. Whether that's good or bad, I don't know but it's divisive, and I think Bernie is divisive and just like Trump doesn't really care what people think about it, he'll do what he wants.
I do see Joe as a cross the Isle for support type of politician. There is still that good old boy country club portion from both sides that he's comfortable with.
This would be assuming that we also know for sure how the Congress/Senate pans out, and we simply don't know at this point. Much can happen between now and November. And while the differences between Biden and Bernie may not be drastically different, they will be different.
It's who can work the best with Congress and I contend that's Biden. Let's hope he gets a Democratic Senate.
No the Democratic establishment media is just so shitty that actual progressives have to go on Fox News to be heard. You know things are bad when you have to watch Tucker Carlson to see objective analysis of the Democratic presidential race.
Have you really sunk so low as to watch Fox News? There ought to be a law against this sort of thing.
Only when I wanted to see the few decent Dem candidates have a chance to be interviewed. But the fun of a 20-some candidate race has been whittled down the very thing liberals claim to be fighting against: Two old rich white straight men. Too funny, couldn’t write a more ironic screenplay. The network for Republican boomer racists was the only one letting brown candidates like John Yang and Tulsi Putin have a platform to spread their anti-war and pro-healthcare hate speech.
https://www.newsweek.com/republican...mp-joe-biden-key-swing-state-michigan-1491355 REPUBLICAN MAYOR DROPS DONALD TRUMP FOR JOE BIDEN IN KEY SWING STATE OF MICHIGAN With Tuesday's Democratic primaries hours away, former Vice President Joe Biden has found an unexpected supporter in Sterling Heights, Michigan Mayor Michael Taylor, a Republican. "Since announcing my endorsement of Joe Biden I have received an outpouring of encouraging messages and believe even more strongly that Joe Biden is the candidate who can defeat Donald Trump in Macomb County and the State of Michigan," Taylor said in a statement to Newsweek on Monday. While Taylor, a life-long Republican, voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, he said he would cast his ballot for Biden this year because Trump is "deranged." "I think Joe Biden is the candidate who can unify all of the Democrats and he's the candidate who can appeal to moderates and Republicans like me who don't want to see four more years of President Trump," Taylor said, according to the Chicago Tribune on Monday. "I remember thinking this Trump thing is insane, but when it was down to him and Hillary, I kind of said, 'Well, you are a Republican, and yeah he's nuts, but maybe he'll get better and you know he's going to lower taxes," Taylor said. "I slowly talked myself into it. 'He can't seriously be this deranged once he gets in there,' and he's even more deranged now than I thought then. So, I take the blame. I voted for him." Sterling Heights lies within Macomb County, Michigan. During the 2016 presidential election, Trump won Macomb County by roughly 54 percent. Trump's opponent Hillary Clinton received 42 percent of the popular vote.
I hardly watch any news anymore and I could tell you what channel amongst the cable stations has the best ratings.
Brit Hume warns Biden's gaffes suggest former VP 'is losing his memory and is getting senile' By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News Brit Hume on the implications of Joe Biden's profanity-laced confrontation with a Michigan voter Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Tuesday that a series of slip-ups by former Vice President Joe Biden during his campaign for the Democratic nomination suggest that the 77-year-old former senator, "like so many people his age, is losing his memory and is getting senile." "I don't think there's any doubt about this," Hume said. "I have traces of this myself. I know what it feels like. Sometimes you're confused, sometimes you can't remember, 'What are you supposed to do the next morning?' -- and I'm not running for president and it's probably a good thing I'm not." Hume added that Biden's recent performance on the campaign trail is different from his long history of gaffes: "If you've known him long enough, you kind of get used to that and you think they're kind of funny and they're just part of who he is and they're kind of harmless ... FLASHBACK: BIDEN SAYS HE WAS VP AT TIME OF PARKLAND SHOOTING IN LATEST CAMPAIGN GAFFE "More recently, however, he's begun to forget things," Hume added. "He didn't know what state he's in, he couldn't remember where he was when he met the Parkland [Florida] students, when he said he was in the White House." Hume also commended on the now-viral confrontation between Biden and a Michigan auto plant worker over the Second Amendment Tuesday, saying that also showed a different, more troubling side of the Democratic frontrunner. "I’ve known him a long time, and he can sometimes work himself up into kind of a passion in speeches and so on when he was arguing about issues and so on in a debate," Hume said. "But I don’t remember him exploding at voters like he did in this incident today, and hurling profanity the way he did, telling the guy he was ‘full of spit,’ except he didn’t say ‘spit’. That’s something new." Hume warned that Democratic voters and officials distracted by the effort to prevent Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., from gaining the nomination may have overlooked Biden's difficulties up until now, but will find them impossible to ignore soon. "I think that over time, the danger for him [Biden] and for his party is that he may say something that’s so outlandish and so suggestive that his cognitive faculties have failed him, that Democratic voters are going to say, ‘Oh, my Lord, what have we got here?’" Hume said, adding: "... Under the pressures of a campaign, who knows what will happen?"
I dont think its a joking matter at all Ive had multiple relatives die not even knowing who they were anymore. There are times I think Bidens mind is slipping, and honestly its tough to watch. I hope Im wrong though. We all speak incorrectly here and there it happens.
