When Biden is talking with a teleprompter, he commands the situation much better than Trump. But in his living room media appearances so far, he stumbles, fails to complete sentences, searches for words, repeats the same points, has difficulty hitting the right points and does not take points to a deeper level, making his comments seem overly general and superficial....Yeah, fix it. Make him as crystalline as Morning Joe. Get on it! Quick!
If Biden's speaking does not improve, it will play into the most obvious critiques of his candidacy. The Trump campaign will go after Biden as an establishment politician of the Washington, D.C., "swamp," who therefore talks in "political speak"; or it will characterize him as "confused," and therefore standing for nothing; or it will paint him as "too old" to handle the job.
I believe Biden is capable of making this jump.... If Biden can clearly articulate the case against the president—especially his mishandling of the coronavirus crisis—he has a real shot at cutting through all the Trump campaign's attacks. This critique is easy to lay out. The administration has clearly failed on many levels, as Joe Scarborough crystallizes every day on Morning Joe....
So, this is a message to Biden's campaign staff: Figure out how to fix this issue, and fix it quickly....
This is such a hilariously unhelpful column. The campaign obviously knows of this problem, but it can't figure out how to fix this issue. The man is 77 and he is what he is. He won the nomination by being just that and nothing more. You can't "fix" that. There's no fixing. He'll win or lose by offering himself up as what he is and nothing more. You know him. Obama knew him. The man who called Obama "articulate" is articulate enough — enough to get this far, anyway. They've got to let Biden be Biden. That's all there is and all there will be — unless they want to replace him. There's no fixing!
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 205 of 205Men such as I will merely meekly attempt to give men like Gram Parsons or Tupac Shakur their due, when it comes to music. They know.
We all know and that is why we sometime's not hate 'em. I could have died at 27 with some record hits, motherfucker.
Gram had18 great albums with 12 songs each. Terrible amount lost. Drugs are bad.
"Let Biden be Biden".
And so we now have what appears to be a slight nod of support toward Creepy Joe by Professor Althouse.
What if Biden were a Republican?
"Cruel neutrality," indeed.
Didn't the democrats already try running an issueless "Anybody but GW Bush" campaign in 2004 and lost handily? I still remember winning many bar bets with clueless bay area liberals assured Bush would be washed out in a landslide.
This is why it's too irresistible to cast about for exotic scenarios where a dark horse parachutes in during the convention because its a non starter trying to beat an incumbent without any coherent alternative. What are the democrats thinking?
If Biden's speaking does not improve, it will play into the most obvious critiques of his candidacy. The Trump campaign will go after Biden as an establishment politician of the Washington, D.C., "swamp," who therefore talks in "political speak"; or it will characterize him as "confused," and therefore standing for nothing; or it will paint him as "too old" to handle the job.
That is the George Lakoff idea that politics are all about "framing" and perception. Sure, we only know the world by perceiving it, but if you think everything is only about how it can be spun, you lose touch with reality. Of course, "reality" is a very slippery thing it itself, but there are always some persistent, annoying things that stick out through the wrapping. That Biden has been in Washington for almost 50 years, that he isn't what he used to be and that even in his prime he was no heavyweight are some of those things.
What are the democrats thinking?
There aren't the elites that could push a candidate on the voters. Without being a conspiratorialist, it's clear that Time/Newsweek and groups like the Bildebergers and the Trilateral Commission gave Carter and Clinton a visibility and a viability that they wouldn't have had on their own.
And even when most of the voters in the Democrat coalition are willing to back a White or a man or a White man, non-White and non-male and non-straight politicians aren't willing to get out of the way for that candidate. No-hopers crowded the stage until the party got scared of Sanders and told them all to pack up and go home.
But mostly, the ideal candidate didn't show up - the same thing that happened with the Republicans in recent elections. It wasn't that Romney or McCain or the party establishment wanted to lose, it was that nobody else would have done much better. Skilled, charismatic politicians aren't available in every political cycle.
The best way to fix Biden is to make him not-Biden.
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