A brief word on the presidential candidacy of Joe Biden.
- No, I’m not considering voting for Joe Biden in the caucuses/primaries.
- No, I won’t vote for Joe Biden in the general election if he’s the nominee.
- No, I’m not interested in reconsidering this position.
- Yes, I’ll think less of you if you vote for Joe Biden.
That’s OK, though. We can still be friends. Carry on with your day.
I’m hoping the debates this summer relegate Biden to the rear and cause him to drop. My personal hope is for Warren. If not her, I would support another – but Biden, no. Why bother? For the party to back Biden would all but ensure a Trump re-election (assuming no impeachment conviction): all the proof one needs to conclude that white collar crime does indeed pay, and well.
And I shudder at the damages from such an outcome. But neither Biden nor the party “leadership” seem to grasp the economic precariousness and disillusionment with which *most* people in the US live. In Iowa City he declined to discuss details on health care policy, saying “I don’t have time”? What, he couldn’t at least provide a thumbnail? WTF has the guy been doing exactly, while preparing his candidacy … or was he just planning to run on not being Trump? Biden has always struck me as smiling, voluble, a glad-hander with ready platitudes and a pat on the back (or elsewhere), but otherwise an empty suit. His record is at best right of center, providing a foil of age, experience, and (faux) blue collar vibe against Obama’s vigor and youth. Obama rocked the under-25 voter in 2008, and got them to the polls; if the party wants to have a real future, it needs to focus on those who feel they have none. They have no money for campaign contributions: they are young, struggling, and drowning in debt. And they are not looking at Joe Biden.