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Caveat: we all have moments, and it's very easy to select a bad one out of hours of footage, but this is eerily familiar.
Caveat: we all have moments, and it's very easy to select a bad one out of hours of footage, but this is eerily familiar.
I think we need to remember, he has had a lifelong stammering problemIt wasn't that bad, it was just Biden stumbling over his words. It sounded like he wanted to mention a C19 stat, forgot that stat, and then didn't do a great job of recovering/pivoting to something else.
Was just rather rambly and, as an old white dude, quite similar to Trump.
(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee will report raising more than $350 million in August, according to two people familiar with the fundraising efforts, a record-setting amount for monthly fundraising as the campaign moves into the fall. ...
The number could still grow because final numbers for the month have not yet been reported.
The Biden campaign declined to comment.
The previous record for monthly fundraising was $193 million set by Obama for America, the DNC and the Obama Victory Fund in September 2008, before former President Barack Obama won his first term.
Yep.Anyone else think we could find better uses overall for that money?
Any insights, anyone, into how all that money will actually end up being spent?![]()
also ,literature, promo films, outreach teams, day-to-day expenses, merchandiseTravel, consultants, media and advertising (TV advertising for political candidates has to be bought in the USA, unlike here).
There doesn't seem to be that much consensus on how much difference a disparity in finance between candidates makes.
also ,literature, promo films, outreach teams, day-to-day expenses, merchandise
Any insights, anyone, into how all that money will actually end up being spent?
And will that achieve anything for Joe Biden, despite him being a somewhat inactive candidate at the moment?![]()
The Biden campaign has already signed on for almost $200 in ads.
That's all it costs to say what's decent about JoeCrikey!
They're really pushing the boat out!
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Crikey!
They're really pushing the boat out!
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Actually, quite a lot might be, as I think it's almost certain that the biden campaign will focus very heavily on the swing states.though I doubt the campaigns are planning big ad buys in local newspapers.
Note the trace of red-baiting in the bit about the steel company (‘un-American’); the implication that Stevenson was, if not effeminate, a bookworm (‘a little soft’); the appeal to masculine authenticity and action (‘a man with ballast’). It might seem an odd posture for someone whose purpose, when the book was published, was to seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2008. His Bush Lite campaign died in Iowa that January with a fifth place finish and 0.9 per cent of the vote. But the pose had been proven to work.‘We’re Eisenhower Republicans here,’ Bill Clinton told Bob Woodward after taking office in 1993. ‘We stand for lower deficits, free trade and the bond market. Isn’t that great?’Grandpop, his pals from the neighbourhood, maybe a crony from the Scranton Tribune, and my Finnegan uncles, Jack and Boo-Boo, settled in at the kitchen table. They’d sit in the spreading afternoon light talking sports and politics. These men were educated, informed and eclectic – and they loved to debate. They’d argue local politics, state politics, world events, Truman against MacArthur, Truman against the steel companies. They were Truman Democrats, working men, or sons of working men, but they had to admit Truman might have gone too far when he tried to take over Youngstown Steel. Probably the Supreme Court was right when they knocked him back. A president’s a president, not a dictator. It seemed un-American. Still, at least he was up front about it. That’s the thing they liked about Harry Truman: no artifice. He knew where he stood, and he wasn’t afraid to say it. The fellows at Grandpop’s table didn’t trust the new Democratic standard-bearer, Adlai Stevenson. They thought he might be a little soft. They were willing to give Eisenhower the benefit of the doubt; he was a hero of the war, after all. My dad, who didn’t join in the talk much, trusted Ike because he had been able to win a war while negotiating the competing national prerogatives of the Western allies and the substantial egos of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Field Marshal Montgomery and General Patton. Dad thought Eisenhower was a man with ballast, a leader. But the Finnegans wanted to argue Ike’s policies.
The insecurities about an undistinguished academic career two decades in the past – one the young Biden, per his memoir, had never seemed too bothered about – suggest that Third Way politics was best suited to a technocrat with elite credentials like Dukakis or the Clintons. The scandals also affected his work as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he tried to grill the Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork on his voluminous writings on constitutional law. Biden offered to resign, but Thurmond and Kennedy told him not to. Bork’s nomination was thwarted, but Biden was still chairman four years later when George H.W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas. The story of those hearings has been told many times, but Marcetic adds to the picture. Biden had cut a deal with the Republicans a year before when Thomas was nominated to a lower judgeship: he promised he would get Thomas confirmed if they would pledge not to nominate him to the highest court. The Republicans welched on the deal. Biden knew about Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment against Thomas, but didn’t inform his committee colleagues of them before Thomas appeared at the Senate for confirmation. At least four other women were standing by to elaborate on Hill’s testimony, but Biden, caving in to White House pressure, stopped them turning up. Things could have been different.after Newsweek unearthed C-Span footage of an April 7 event in New Hampshire, where an audience member had asked Biden which law school he had attended and where he had placed. Perceiving it as a slight, Biden had reacted badly. He’d shot back that he had ‘ended up in the top half’ of his class, graduated with three degrees, was ‘the outstanding student in the political science department’, and had gone to law school on a full academic scholarship. He then told the questioner he would ‘be delighted to sit back and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like’. All of this was proven to be untrue: Biden had placed toward the bottom of both his undergraduate and law school classes, had a single degree with a double major, had only been nominated for the political science award, and had received a partial scholarship based on financial need. ‘I exaggerate when I’m angry,’ he now explained.
This is an amusing post-Cold War anecdote, poking fun at Bush’s claim that he understood Putin’s soul by looking into his eyes, but its real purpose is to pander to the current Russophobia in the political centre. Biden on Iraq is grimmer reading: ‘The irony of all ironies was that the very outfit that intended to tear the country apart, ISIL, was actually bringing Iraqis together, at least temporarily.’ His bond with Obama remained strong, though the president’s aides were tipping towards Hillary Clinton for the 2016 race. After Beau Biden’s cancer progressed to the point where he felt he had to step down as Delaware’s attorney general, Obama offered to lend the Bidens money when Biden’s only other option for supporting his son’s family was to take out a second mortgage on the family home. ‘I’ll give you the money,’ Obama said. ‘I have it. You can pay me back whenever’ – friendlier terms than you get from the banks and credit card companies of Delaware.As the meeting was coming to an end, Putin asked me to have a look around his office. The furnishings were elaborate and impressive. ‘It’s amazing what capitalism will do, isn’t it?’ I said, gazing up at the high ceiling. ‘Magnificent.’
As I looked back down, I was face to face with him. ‘Mr Prime Minister, I’m looking into your eyes,’ I told him, smiling. ‘I don’t think you have a soul.’
He looked at me for a second and smiled back. ‘We understand each other,’ he said.
And we did.