And you bring light to us all who sit in darkness with your fascinating reveal into why Bernie is the one, the only, person who can beat Trump. Not exactly true.
You link to a survey you claim shows 57% of respondents find it a big negative that Joe Biden using his connections “got his son a job” but that isn’t at all what that survey
showed that the appearance, optics of the situation concerned them- nothing was said about Joe Biden “using his connections to get his son a job”, but why point that out when you simply twist the meaning of said links that show pretty much the opposite than what you claim, knowing that many readers don’t bother to check sources themselves so you rightly see their usage as being better at influencing people. And to link to his “real followers” wouldn’t open, although that could be an issue with my browser, so perhaps that page does exist, after all. I’ll give you a pass on that.
And he sold his house for the full appraisal price- you do know that appraisals are done by the locality and aren’t updated often and tend to be below fair market values? Many houses sell above the “appraised” value and many others sell above even the asking price, so a miss on that. Neither you nor I are real-estate professionals but I know better than to try to appear that I am.
And you go back 40 years on all of the perceived flaws of Biden but not on Bernie- I guess that’s because “he’s never changed his positions”. While that may be true, most people, over the course of four decades DO change; we grow as they learn new things rather than cling to what we “knew” decades ago. And I’m sure, because you’re an intelligent, thinking man, that will be true of you, too, when your 40 years older than you are now.
And if you aren’t aware that in big corporations the employees are quietly encouraged to donate to a particular Political Party or candidate then you’ve never worked in that setting. It’s common practice in big business, which isn’t exactly unknown.
And Biden has repeatedly be attacked by Republican's over the years? Big surprise there! Biden’s a Democrat…
“stoking fears about his electability and cynically exploiting public anxiety over the possibility that a Sanders nomination might mean four more years of Trump.” Quite possible and it’s too dangerous to ignore.
and “They all say that Trump is licking his chops at the idea of facing Sanders in the general.” Uh, he is…
A valid fear that we ignore to our own peril. A subset of Bernie’s supporters voted for trump and literally gave Trump Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. https://medium.com/@gayleleslie/by-the-numbers-how-sanders-hardcore-loyalists-helped-elect-donald-trump-bigly-ab79adb503a4
Castella Semaphore
@Semaphore1842 Aug 23, 2017
If they all voted, its 2.3x the margin in WI, 4.5x in MI, and 2.6x in PA. At 54% turnout, 1.2x, 2.4x, 1.4x — enough to flip all three states.
Seventy-six Electoral votes in those three states where Trump won by fairly narrow margins. Seventy-six Electoral votes that would have saved us from the likes of Trump.
Like it or not, we wouldn’t have Trump in Office if a subset of Bernie’s hardcore supporters (and I don’t mean all of his supporters- the majority of them did vote for the Democratic nominee) hadn’t voted for Trump in 2016 and many of them are taking the same stance this year: If the nominee isn’t Bernie, then they’ll either stay home or vote for Trump and we’ll all get to enjoy another four years of the very things they want being dismantled making it that much harder to make the significant changes we want.
In short, you seem to dislike Biden because he hasn’t done as well financially as many Senators and take issue with the fact that a credit card company’s top execs and many employees have donated to Biden’s campaign?
Of course I’ll support and vote for Bernie if he’s the nominee, even if I don’t hold a lot of hope that we’ll just be stuck with the current, unhinged President for four more years. And I shudder at that thought.
As always, Hope abides.
