My first choice would be Gretchen Whitmer or Sherrod Brown but I Brown's candidacy would lose the Dems a crucial Senate seat. I also like Corey Booker although I know that is an unpopular choice.
To be clear, these are not my choices as a progressive but rather candidates who I think could win and would do a good job.
I do not think Harris should run but I think Biden should resign ASAP and Harris should serve out the remainder of his term as a caretaker President and both America's first female President AND America's first South Asian President.
I like Harris and I think she would be a good President but Biden purposefully undermined her to insure his candidacy for reelection. Additionally, the Biden brand is now a stain and it will take Harris years to clean it off.
I do not think Harris should run but I think Biden should resign ASAP and Harris should serve out the remainder of his term as a caretaker President and both America's first female President AND America's first South Asian President.
I like Harris and I think she would be a good President but Biden purposefully undermined her to insure his candidacy for reelection. Additionally, the Biden brand is now a stain and it will take Harris years to clean it off.
how do you come up with such assumptions? Are you clairvoyant? So damn negative and pessimistic…
Starting to think that Biden's mistake last night was preparing for an actual fact based debate. Maybe he should have taken that other guy's approach and just said whatever he wanted to say and not worry about being truthful and accurate.
how do you come up with such assumptions? Are you clairvoyant? So damn negative and pessimistic…
Do you honestly think Biden has any chance of winning after last night?
I mean there is such a thing as optimism but what you are talking about borders on delusion.
watch this. from today.
Yelling out platitudes to a sympathetic audience is way different than interacting in a hostile debate. Presidents need all kinds of communication skills and Joe is missing some critical requirements. I think they should replace him although not sure it matters because they will just get a younger version with the same bad policies.
Here's what I'm thinking. This is an existential moment for American democracy and for the Democrats. I don't think Biden has a snowball's chance in hell of wining in November. I take no joy at all in that. I've supported Joe from the beginning. But last night he blew it. It's over for him. Do you think he WON any voters last night? His job was to pick up voters and he did not do that.
The Dems have to make a deliberate, proactive and immediate choice to salvage their chances in November. Biden cannot win. They must come together, in private, I suppose, and choose another candidate and/or open up the August convention. Any of half a dozen alternative candidates would do significantly better against Trump in the September debate. And make a fine President. A radical idea? Maybe. Ever been done before? Probably not.
But as things stand now, Trump will be the next President. That is unacceptable to me. It means a generation of lost democracy and American opportunity. So, the Dems have to pick themselves up and select another candidate. And this must be done immediately. There is no time to waste.
And maybe they do it without Joe's participation: once a candidate is picked and vetted, Democratic leaders of Congress confront Joe and say, sorry, Kid, this isn't your year. We love you, Joe, and respect you, but this is bigger than you. Bigger than any of us.
This is no time for dawdling. This is a major threat to Democracy.
Yelling out platitudes to a sympathetic audience is way different than interacting in a hostile debate. Presidents need all kinds of communication skills and Joe is missing some critical requirements. I think they should replace him although not sure it matters because they will just get a younger version with the same bad policies.
So Nan, getting back on topic (or, in your case, addressing the topic for the first time) who do you think the Democrats should nominate for President?
A journalist on Brian Lehrer this morning said that Congressional leaders are telling journalists off the record that they are working to create an off ramp for Biden.
Yelling out platitudes to a sympathetic audience is way different than interacting in a hostile debate. Presidents need all kinds of communication skills and Joe is missing some critical requirements. I think they should replace him although not sure it matters because they will just get a younger version with the same bad policies.
So Nan, getting back on topic (or, in your case, addressing the topic for the first time) who do you think the Democrats should nominate for President?
No one they would ever nominate in a billion years. Someone who wants to end the forever wars and focus on diplomacy and making life better for the American people. Someone not controlled by the donor class. Someone like the people they killed to get us to the pathetic state where we are now entrapped. I’m hesitant to give names because anyone like that has been throughly rejected by the mainstream media and I don’t have time to defend against all the negative responses from people who are just now finding out Biden has mental problems. To start with I would consider most if not all the people running for president who were not allowed on the debate stage. Some of these people have way better ideas than Biden or Trump.
No one they would ever nominate in a billion years. Someone who wants to end the forever wars and focus on diplomacy and making life better for the American people. Someone not controlled by the donor class. Someone like the people they killed to get us to the pathetic state where we are now entrapped. I’m hesitant to give names because anyone like that has been throughly rejected by the mainstream media and I don’t have time to defend against all the negative responses from people who are just now finding out Biden has mental problems. To start with I would consider most if not all the people running for president who were not allowed on the debate stage. Some of these people have way better ideas than Biden or Trump.
Well, thank you for your input, such as it is. I look forward to seeing your lively comments over in the Russia forum.
A journalist on Brian Lehrer this morning said that Congressional leaders are telling journalists off the record that they are working to create an off ramp for Biden.
No one they would ever nominate in a billion years. Someone who wants to end the forever wars and focus on diplomacy and making life better for the American people. Someone not controlled by the donor class. Someone like the people they killed to get us to the pathetic state where we are now entrapped. I’m hesitant to give names because anyone like that has been throughly rejected by the mainstream media and I don’t have time to defend against all the negative responses from people who are just now finding out Biden has mental problems. To start with I would consider most if not all the people running for president who were not allowed on the debate stage. Some of these people have way better ideas than Biden or Trump.
Well, thank you for your input, such as it is. I look forward to seeing your lively comments over in the Russia forum.
Have a great summer!
Thank you, I will! Probably not in the Russian forum though.
No one they would ever nominate in a billion years. Someone who wants to end the forever wars and focus on diplomacy and making life better for the American people.
Biden pulled American troops out of Afghanistan, gets incredible **** for it, and the phony "progressives" don't back him up but instead attack him over an invasion that was started by a different President of a different country.
No one they would ever nominate in a billion years. Someone who wants to end the forever wars and focus on diplomacy and making life better for the American people.
Biden pulled American troops out of Afghanistan, gets incredible **** for it, and the phony "progressives" don't back him up but instead attack him over an invasion that was started by a different President of a different country.
You are conveniently forgetting that Biden signed “the deets” for the 2014 US backed Ukraine coup and started the war.
So, who would you nominate? I'm getting a sense that you are ride and die for Biden.
That's a silly way to put it. I want the Democrats to have a serious internal discussion, and come up with a strategy to deal with the fact that, while they're probably not losing committed Biden voters to Trump, there are "undecideds" who might just sit out the election if Biden isn't able to do a better job confronting Trump's dishonesty.
If it's "Keep Biden but get more people out there boosting him", then that's the strategy they'll pick. If it's "Biden bows out", they're going to have to choreograph that carefully, to deal with the people who would happily turn the country over to Trump if the new nominee isn't their favorite. They've done it before, and there's no reason to think they wouldn't do it again.
No one they would ever nominate in a billion years. Someone who wants to end the forever wars and focus on diplomacy and making life better for the American people. Someone not controlled by the donor class. Someone like the people they killed to get us to the pathetic state where we are now entrapped. I’m hesitant to give names because anyone like that has been throughly rejected by the mainstream media and I don’t have time to defend against all the negative responses from people who are just now finding out Biden has mental problems. To start with I would consider most if not all the people running for president who were not allowed on the debate stage. Some of these people have way better ideas than Biden or Trump.
My first choice would be Gretchen Whitmer or Sherrod Brown but I Brown's candidacy would lose the Dems a crucial Senate seat. I also like Corey Booker although I know that is an unpopular choice.
To be clear, these are not my choices as a progressive but rather candidates who I think could win and would do a good job.