My wife sent this to me a few hours ago. Good reminder than even the candidates are human beings (excluding the GOP).
Edit: added the parenthesis
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Even Ted Cruz?
(I know heās not running now, but he did in 2016)
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I mean, I watched him debate in 2008 and 2012 and he was sharp and charismatic and quick on his feet.
I didnāt read the article, but the premise sounds like bullshit to me.
Like, does the stutter make him forget where heās going mid sentence and go āā¦ anyway, Iām out of timeā
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Thank you. Fixed my post
Biden is the only human being running for POTUS who lobbied and voted for war in the ME, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, welfare reform, and the surveillance state.
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Sanders needs to stay in to keep the eventual winner as far left as can be. If Warren canāt stay in also and canāt hoover up enough of the votes left by other candidates departing over time, then Warrenās not going to win the general anyway, imo.
Thatās only because he has a stutter so he wasnāt able to articulate his opposition to those things.
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If you read the article, it addresses this to some extent. 1) Biden had a well documented stutter as a child. 2) A stutter can cause what appear to be illogical digressions or unusual syntax when the speaker realizes that the sentence they started to say is going to cause them to have to say a word where their stutter is particularly pronounced. 3) While stutters do not inherently get worse with age, there is a mental and even physical strain related to trying to control the stutter (so my own interpretation is that someone who is getting older might find it harder to cover up the symptoms).
Like I said, didnāt change my desire to have him as a President, but made him a little more understandable as a fellow human.
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First Iāve heard of it and I wonāt make fun of him as much for it I guess.
Hereās a 2012 speech of Bidenās thatās one of the most moving speeches Iāve seen a politician do. Itās hard for me to not believe what weāre seeing is age getting to him. On a human level, thereās a lot to Joe Biden thatās sympathetic and a lot of his folksiness seems genuine. Still donāt like his Neoliberal politics, donāt @ me.
The jobs not only havenāt come back but have gone away more than ever, and yet the same amount of people still love him. I think the racism was more important.
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Yeah, that speech is great. Thereās no shame in the fact that his time has come and gone. So it will for all of us.
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I donāt care that he canāt speak. I care that he thinks ābe nice to Republicansā is a winning strategy, politically or otherwise.
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Well, I DO care that he canāt speak. The job is President of the United States. Public speaking is in the job description. It counts.
Our elections are decided by stupid-ass midwestern olds. Maybe we can pump the brakes on THE FOUNDERS?
whatās hilarious is the founders were 20-something coastal elites
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Warren has more Bernie fans voting for her than Biden fans according to this. The majority of Bernie people have Warren as their second choice.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/rakich-secondchoice-1014.png?w=1150
Was Ben Franklin the Bernie Sanders of the Founding Fathers?
pretty much