Waiting for the hurrah front porch campaign that is a’coming
From the left (can’t immediately find the wsws or counterpunch or whatever article) and from the studious, we get a reasonable if cynical analysis: Bloomberg got what he wanted. Hell, as much as we see Elizabeth Warren in her denouement crow the salvaging arc that she toppled Bloomberg — the problem there was that as cutting as her take down was, in her absence the message would have still carried by the other candidates — so obvious is Bloomberg’s unpalatability to the Democratic electorate it wouldn’t take much to bring it to the surface — his brief campaign probably did some harm to Warren and provided a diversionary foil so Joe Biden could perform adequately on the debate setting. The one concern if I were Bloomberg or those democrats pleading for his money is that his showing his face has made his money a tad more toxic so republicans running against them can now point to the “bought”. I am not sure why Biden wouldn’t have told Bloomberg that the best way he could help him is to when making his exit speech, not endorse. Please.
Jim Clyburn offers an interesting suggestion on the retail faltering of Biden, that he came off script due to the criticism of footage of his getting too close in personal relations with girls and women scanning more darkly these days. Like a man blind-sided by a feminist barking at him for holding the door for her, and so over responding by letting doors slam. He must… loosen up… But… Controlled.
If nothing else, Biden shall henceforth keep his hands to himself to not spread cornavirus.
The thing about Bernie Sanders, as I scan the “i do not like joe biden” tagline at twitter, and the confluence of the block political history comparisons… Sometimes lamely conceived as with “supporter of American Imperialism” / “opposes American Imperialism” (not the terminology that will sway the American electorate, even for popular anti-war causes… and do we dare note Trump is signing American troops out of Afghanistan?) …
So, sitting there is… Urm?… A gun control measure Biden opposed in the 90s… As too Obama era immigration policy…
ER… Sanders is not passing your partisan purity tests here… Here we have some cultural markers that helped Sanders historically over-perform democratic vote tallies in his rural state… It is to his detriment, really, as we get boxed in on any restrictive measures whatever is rhetorically tagged as racism.
Then we have Biden in the 1980s on abortion. Surely you jest. Yeah, and I guess you hold California Governor Ronald Reagan up as the model of liberalizing state abortion laws. Meanwhile, Bernie — to criticism in the Nation magazine — was campaigning for an anti-abortion candidate in Nebraska. I think well and good to do so, but by standards of the red rose twitter socialists, not.
No, I am not a fan of Biden, — and on that great “electability” thing it is six of one and half a dozen of the other on these two — but… To read the red rose Sanderistas’ whole sale takes… is to make a case for him. Hell, I see a critical assessment of his wife shouting “it’s okay” to him at the take-down of the anti-dairy protester rushing the stage as part of the mental breakdown at dusk narrative. Be… More… Selective, freaks.