Saturday, September 21, 2019

Support for Joe continues to droop


  1.  8 hours ago
    “During the Obama years, several months after James [Biden] joined a construction firm as an executive, the firm received a contract worth more than a billion dollars to build houses in Iraq while Joe oversaw the U.S.-led occupation of that country.”
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From Ben Schreckinger (POLITICO):


 During the Obama years, several months after James joined a construction firm as an executive, the firm received a contract worth more than a billion dollars to build houses in Iraq while Joe oversaw the U.S.-led occupation of that country.

That's unethical.  I get that Tulsi Gabbard is a fake ass so she gives Joe a pass but what's the excuse for the bulk of the US media?  Then there's the Biden's Ukraine issue.  Ray McGovern (CONSORTIUM NEWS) explains:

In an interview with The National Interest, Joe Lauria put this episode in context:
“It was in February [2014] when Yanukovych was overthrown, and just a few months later (in May), Joe Biden’s son and a close friend of John Kerry’s stepson, they both join the board of this Ukrainian gas company. And the name of that was Burisma Holdings,” said Joe Lauria, editor of Consortium News and a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. “So just after an American-backed coup, you have Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and this John Kerry family friend joining the board of probably the largest private gas producer in Ukraine. They installed the new government, and as the bounty of this coup, Joe Biden’s son personally profited. He would not have gotten that job if Yanukovych was still in power,” Lauria told The National Interest.

 Joe wants the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.


 2 hours ago
"Lying through his teeth" is exactly what Biden is doing and it's amazing that he thinks the Democrat Party will let him get away with such preposterous lies when hundreds of thousands of...
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 2 hours ago
Joe Biden Is Lying Through His Teeth About Iraq



 5 hours ago
As Joe Biden apologizes for past positions, to include his affiliation with Segregationists, Danny asks Biden to apologize for something much bigger: his support for the Iraq war and the destruction it caused.
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Yes, let us ignore the fact that he architected the 1994 , voted for the Iraq War, associated with segregationists, sought donations from who's fighting the 1886 law against contractual discrimination, his record player answer, and story on corn pop.
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    I'm tired of politicians trying to score political points like Joe is doing here on the backs of dead or missing soldiers who are dead or missing because of Joe and his ilk sending them all over the world to fight stupid ass wars. Iraq, Afghanistan, vietnam, Libya etc etc etc.
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The idea of Joe Biden running for president excited so many.  The actual run?  Not so much.



Last week, Joe Biden gave us an occasion to talk about "racism with a smile." Now he’s doing "sexism with a smile." Watch him grow angry at 's solid question -- and then try to slap her down in the most patronizing way: "You're a lovely person."

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    1.  17 hours ago
      As says smartly here, this is Biden being Biden, which is Biden being a charming, "Heya Champ," grip-and-grin guy who is also Paleolithic.

      I admire Lyz’s professionalism in this moment. Sad that it was even necessary. Biden keeps exhibiting this kind of Paleolithic behavior, and too many folks will excuse it because they’re used to seeing their male elders act like way. There is no such thing as benevolent sexism. …
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    2.  17 hours ago
      You can bring up some bill you once pushed, and that's great. But what we're all looking for in candidates is your deeper nature, your instincts. And Biden is consistently revealing himself to be someone we recognize -- someone whose instincts are long-ago instincts.
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    3.  17 hours ago
      They're not the instincts of a predator or a super-mean guy. They're the instincts of someone who came of age (no fault of his) in a time when women and people of color were widely considered less fully human and someone who has refused to evolve (the part that is his fault).
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    4.  17 hours ago
      I want to add another wrinkle to this. Joe Biden is not an outlier. We have a lot of Joe Bidens in America. A lot of people who are kind and decent but who are steeped in reflexes and habits that see Others as less fully human. And I have been an advocate for helping them grow.
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    5.  17 hours ago
      At the Obama Summit a couple years ago, I challenged the mostly liberal crowd: "Is there space among the woke for the still-waking?" I believe woke America must believe in, and fight for, the possibility that the waking can change, and help them change.
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    6.  17 hours ago
      America needs to believe in the possibility of changing its Joe Bidens. Among the tasks of the next president is to be the steward of that work. And so that work cannot be led by someone so in need of change himself.
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In addition, Aamer Madhani (USA TODAY) adds:

After the session, Lenz said as she walked off stage Biden dryly remarked to her that she was “a real sweetheart.” She told USA TODAY that she found the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s remark condescending. 
“It’s 2019, you shouldn’t be calling women sweethearts,” Lenz said.


Poor Joe.  Every day the resistance to him builds. Stephen Gruber-Miller (DES MOINES REGISTER) reports:
Joe Biden’s support in Iowa has eroded as the former vice president has reintroduced himself to Iowans as a presidential candidate — and faced criticism from campaign rivals.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, at 22%, leads him by 2 points in the new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll, after Biden had topped three earlier polls this caucus cycle. The only other contender in double digits is Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, at 11%.
The poll of 602 likely Democratic caucusgoers was conducted Sept. 14-18 by Selzer & Co. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Biden’s standing has fallen in each of the Iowa Polls conducted since last year.



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