Democratic Primaries

Celerity

(46,227 posts) Sat Mar 14, 2020, 12:56 AM Mar 2020

WaPo : Why Joe Biden is the antidote to this virus

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/13/why-joe-biden-is-antidote-this-virus/

Joe Biden isn’t 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. That’s part of the reason, despite his far-above-the-rest résumé, that Biden’s 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. It’s 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 we’ve 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, Biden’s fundamental argument: that his would be a restoration presidency — of American values, of America’s 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. Biden’s 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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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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WaPo : Why Joe Biden is the antidote to this virus (Original Post) Celerity Mar 2020 OP

Biden is loved by many on the left and the right. showblue22 Mar 2020 #1

Yes...Biden is known and trusted nation wide by the base of our party, the AA voter...thank you! Thekaspervote Mar 2020 #3

and the world. showblue22 Mar 2020 #5

I have confidence thaat Joe Biden will surround himself with capable people, No Vested Interest Mar 2020 #2

"...Joe Biden will surround himself with capable people..." pazzyanne Mar 2020 #4

exactly, Joe Biden is the familiar, tried and true candidate onetexan Mar 2020 #10

That is one of the things that terrifies me about Bernie dansolo Mar 2020 #17

It's so funny to me that a lot of articles have Cha Mar 2020 #6

I find Joe True Blue American Mar 2020 #11

We know plenty, TBA.. this is what Cha Mar 2020 #12

:) True Blue American Mar 2020 #14

sorry, no Skittles Mar 2020 #7

Biden is a good, decent man with morals. showblue22 Mar 2020 #8

... Skittles Mar 2020 #16

Then you do not True Blue American Mar 2020 #13

LOLOL Skittles Mar 2020 #15

He's the antidote to this whole shitshow! SunSeeker Mar 2020 #9

K&R question everything Mar 2020 #18

showblue22

(1,026 posts)

1. Biden is loved by many on the left and the right.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 01:11 AM

Mar 2020

Biden is a good man, no one can dispute that and if they do.. no one believes it. Joe is decency, love, and competence.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Thekaspervote

(34,666 posts)

3. Yes...Biden is known and trusted nation wide by the base of our party, the AA voter...thank you!

Reply to showblue22 (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:02 AM

Mar 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

showblue22

(1,026 posts)

5. and the world.

Reply to Thekaspervote (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:06 AM

Mar 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

No Vested Interest

(5,196 posts)

2. I have confidence thaat Joe Biden will surround himself with capable people,

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 01:38 AM

Mar 2020

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.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

pazzyanne

(6,601 posts)

4. "...Joe Biden will surround himself with capable people..."

Reply to No Vested Interest (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:03 AM

Mar 2020

My number one reason for supporting him! I am sick and tired of incompetence running this nation.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

onetexan

(13,899 posts)

10. exactly, Joe Biden is the familiar, tried and true candidate

Reply to pazzyanne (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:27 AM

Mar 2020

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.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

dansolo

(5,385 posts)

17. That is one of the things that terrifies me about Bernie

Reply to pazzyanne (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 06:03 AM

Mar 2020

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.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Cha

(305,440 posts)

6. It's so funny to me that a lot of articles have

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:08 AM

Mar 2020

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

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

True Blue American

(18,166 posts)

11. I find Joe

Reply to Cha (Reply #6)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:38 AM

Mar 2020

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!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Cha

(305,440 posts)

12. We know plenty, TBA.. this is what

Reply to True Blue American (Reply #11)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:40 AM

Mar 2020

we do.. years of experience.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

True Blue American

(18,166 posts)

14. :)

Reply to Cha (Reply #12)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:41 AM

Mar 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Skittles

(159,374 posts)

7. sorry, no

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:44 AM

Mar 2020

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

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

showblue22

(1,026 posts)

8. Biden is a good, decent man with morals.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #7)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:57 AM

Mar 2020

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.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Skittles

(159,374 posts)

16. ...

Reply to showblue22 (Reply #8)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 04:35 AM

Mar 2020

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I, and many others, were energized by UTTER DISGUST for Trump. *PERIOD*

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

True Blue American

(18,166 posts)

13. Then you do not

Reply to Skittles (Reply #7)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:41 AM

Mar 2020

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!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden