okaydo said:
Cal88 said:
Biden is not only on the dull side, but he's also very corrupt, on par with the Clintons. He would be very vulnerable as a candidate.
I think Warren will win the nomination. Other than Tulsi, she would be the strongest opponent for Trump. Harris has no charsima and lacks authenticity, Booker and Buttgieg are fakes, Sanders is past his time, he shouldn't have rolled over for Hilary in 2016.
Wow, I never thought I'd 100% agree with a Cal88 political post.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump kept saying how Hillary was in power for 30 years. He said it so much that, if I recall correctly, Obama started saying it and even Hillary started saying it. Only problem is that Hillary was unknown before 1992. But she had too much baggage. And so does Biden. Being a Washington insider for nearly 50 years will hurt him.
I don't disagree Biden has baggage, but it is known baggage (absent anything the Russians have not provided yet) and the problem with Clinton is we kept getting new stuff, and no one really seemed to care about Trump's enormous baggage. I just see Biden's and Trump's history as just background noise, and race would be whose philosophy you are with and do you want a "nice" or "mean" President.
That all is different with Warren who is not getting a vetting in the primaries (at least not yet with so many candidates). But it is well beyond claiming minority status when applying to Ivy League institutions for jobs could have denied a more deserving applicant a position. She spent her private legal practice being a civil defense attorney representing large, corporate clients. Documents indicate she took hush money to help suppress personal injury lawsuits against her client Travelers Insurance, which was alleged to have mislead the public about the dangers of asbestos. She lied in court documents indicating Travelers had no knowledge, when leaked document indicate Travelers had known for decades and that she had those documents. Just one example. This is somewhat akin to going through each Romney transaction. You can't be a good boy scout (or girl scout) and have that much success. Why do the details of Warren's decades-old work as a highly compensated corporate attorney matter now? After all, this is America and there's nothing wrong with making a lot of money, which she did at very high billing rates. But that's not true when you're running for the nomination on the issues she champions (as a middle-class warrior standing up for the little guy). In fact, she spent a lot of tine (over 50 cases) helping large corporations arguably screw the little guys.
Then there is her academic record. It is easy to say controversial things in the context of open ideas. Itt is another thing when you dismiss black student claims by saying "everyone is a racist" (she also used that phrase to justify the lack of color in US corporations) or then saying the US is operating under a system of "apartheid." As in you can't have it both ways. There is a lot she said, especially if taken outside academic context, will offend many different groups. And I suspect we will start hearing them as the number of candidates narrows down.
Oh, and she has her own non-profit scandal. Daughter is the founder and chairwoman of Demos, the progressive George Soros-funded think tank, that has some scarps recently. The daughter's assistant,Benjamin Barber, a former adviser to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was forced out once mom announced for President in a 'little restructuring". The non-profit openly supports Sanders which it can do legally, but this all calls into question the little guy issue, when a billionaire fund manager in the very industry Warren purports to want to regulate has so much influence with her and her family.
As Warren's surges upward in the polls, her Democratic opponents have an incentive to attack her. I still think she wins the nomination because her views matter more and are more consistent with the hard core base that votes in primaries. Of course, I said Trump was running a publicity campaign and never wanted to be ( or would be) President.