2nd April 2019, 8:40 PM
I watched it. It's a good summary of a lot of the situation, yeah. I hope that the Mueller report is released and he gives all of those things and more their proper attention, with enough details to damage Trump even if no criminal charges resulted. We'll see though.
On another note, Joe Biden is definitely not having a good PR cycle right now, and it was inevitable -- the pictures of Biden getting too close to women during photo-ops go back a long time, and it was definitely going to eventually be a problem for him, particularly in this party; obviously Republicans don't care, but Democrats do.
Now, from what we've seen I don't see any accusations of Biden doing overtly sexual things, "just" inappropriately close touching of hair and such, but it's definitely creepy and not okay. The big question is though, if that is all it is and there isn't anything worse on him out there (and if there is, I hope it comes out, though I certainly hope there isn't) is it bad enough that he shouldn't run for President, or can he still run despite this? Younger people seem to mostly be saying he shouldn't, and older people that he should, so there's a definite age gap here. I definitely don't think he will be my first choice for the primary, but as much as I like Biden he probably wouldn't have been anyway; this isn't a new issue after all, and there are all kinds of policy reasons to have issues with Biden -- he's been very centrist during his career. He's also pretty old. I think he'd be a very good President, but we have a lot of candidates who would be good. Biden is polling best right now, though -- for instance, in a new Michigan poll, of the Dems polled, only Biden finished ahead of Trump. Those numbers will change as people get more familiar with the other Democrats for sure, though, so I'm not sure how much weight to give it...
On the age note, I really, really hope our nominee isn't Bernie instead...
On another note, Joe Biden is definitely not having a good PR cycle right now, and it was inevitable -- the pictures of Biden getting too close to women during photo-ops go back a long time, and it was definitely going to eventually be a problem for him, particularly in this party; obviously Republicans don't care, but Democrats do.
Now, from what we've seen I don't see any accusations of Biden doing overtly sexual things, "just" inappropriately close touching of hair and such, but it's definitely creepy and not okay. The big question is though, if that is all it is and there isn't anything worse on him out there (and if there is, I hope it comes out, though I certainly hope there isn't) is it bad enough that he shouldn't run for President, or can he still run despite this? Younger people seem to mostly be saying he shouldn't, and older people that he should, so there's a definite age gap here. I definitely don't think he will be my first choice for the primary, but as much as I like Biden he probably wouldn't have been anyway; this isn't a new issue after all, and there are all kinds of policy reasons to have issues with Biden -- he's been very centrist during his career. He's also pretty old. I think he'd be a very good President, but we have a lot of candidates who would be good. Biden is polling best right now, though -- for instance, in a new Michigan poll, of the Dems polled, only Biden finished ahead of Trump. Those numbers will change as people get more familiar with the other Democrats for sure, though, so I'm not sure how much weight to give it...
On the age note, I really, really hope our nominee isn't Bernie instead...