May 24, 2020
"Black activists warn Biden: Don't pick Klobuchar as VP."
That's the headline at Politico, making it sound as though a group of activists had sent a warning to Biden, when it's just that Politico interviewed black activists who, under questioning, expressed concern that Amy Klobuchar would not be very effective in bringing out the black vote. One of the interviewees is a co-author of a Washington Post op-ed that said Biden does "not need help winning white, working-class voters" and picking Amy Klobuchar "will only alienate black voters." She says, "If it was important enough to raise in an op-ed, it speaks to how serious we are." Another interviewee said "There are enough people who either A, don’t know her, or B, have a negative view of her that it becomes another thing the campaign has to do — introduce her and convince communities of color that she’s OK."
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The "Black Activists" also assured Politico they would resign as supreme leader of Georgia if elected.
What's the matter with Amy other than the fact that she's white?
This is all crazy.
she's kind of blanc mange, and has this fork fixation, but Shirley,
I heard that the Minnesota twang is like fingernails on a chalkboard to black people.
Amy needs to develop a portable black accent, just like Hillary and Joe have.
I support Amy for President of the PTA.
If Biden chooses Amy, or anyone else for that matter, where does that leave her when Biden inevitably gets un-nominated?
The Klomentum is gone.
Biden does "not need help winning white, working-class voters"
??? do they mean because it's a Given, that white working-class voters will be fro Trump?
Why did Cuomo not send these activists to senior citizen hone to be inoculated with Orono. The pandemic of racism pretending not to be so would lessen.
" He's made clear that the electoral politics of his pick matter less than choosing someone who can be a governing partner and step into the top job without worry. "
what unmitigated BS. Biden announced his running mate would BE a woman. That is pure electoral politics. And tell me how eliminating approximately half of potential candidates shows a focus of the rest of that crap.
Didn't some high-up person say she was a "Russian asset" or was that another Democrat mediocrity? This one is mean to her staff. Somebody else said that, I think maybe Hillary. Mouthy woman, that one.
The Dems are obsessed racialists. And yet millions of do-gooder clueless whites folks vote Dem.
Big disconnect.
Stick a comb in her, she's done.
How many black activists did Politico have to comb through to find these complaints?
Dat be racist!!!!
do they mean because it's a Given, that white working-class voters will be for Trump?
Only the racist and trans-, homo-, or xeno-phobic ones.
Nikki Haley. That would be downright Trumpian of Biden. Would convince me to vote for him.
Blacks are the Democrat Politician's dream constituency. The D's can do pretty much anything, and nominate pretty much anyone, as long as African-Americans don't feel the candidate is "Racist" with a Capital "R". The D's can take Blacks for granted - they just can't say so out loud.
Best of all, no matter how BAD the Democrat Candidate is, the Blacks will either (1) Vote for them 80-90% or (2) stay home. Never will they vote for the R over the D. Loyal, dependable, and low maintenance.
Comb on, man!
"What's the matter with Amy other than the fact that she's white?"
She was a prosecutor.
Yes, yes, you Democrats want to stay the hell away from Amy Klobuchar. Besides, you already have the Midwest locked up. The giant douche from the east coast will fool those idiots into voting for him.
The old Time magazine would have called them "Blacktivists."
What's the matter with Amy other than the fact that she's white?
Klobuchar is an incurable frump, and as of yet no activist groups have taken up Frump liberation.
When frumps unite, the earth will tremble under their collective might.
Love how these folks "demand" a certain outcome.
Amy is so un-simpatico generally that I wouldn’t be surprised if this is just a Donk ploy to scotch any possibility of a Klobbie VP pick. The lesson of 2016 is no scolds. Even Biden’s hapless handlers must have understood that. The chick pick will be a relatively minor talent with a heap o’ charisma.
I get the minor talent part, but where are they going to find someone with a heap o charisma?
Their last female candidate was Hillary.
Karen Klobuchar would be a great VP candidate.
Karen Clinton has such success against Trump, after all.
Amy K is one of the more reasonable Democrats. But the party has been overrun with leftists/statist/anti-Americans, who seek to fundamentally transform our culture, society, traditions, legal systems and constitutional structure. So, if I may be blunt, fuck 'em.
What's the matter with Amy other than the fact that she's white?
@Althouse, she wasn't just a prosecutor. Black people in Minneapolis believe, and possibly correctly, that as a prosecutor she cooperated with police to railroad an innocent teenager named Myon Burrell into life imprisonment for murder.
The case was horrific. An 11 year old girl named Tyesha Edwards was sitting at her kitchen table doing homework when a stray bullet came through the siding of her house, struck her, and killed her. Apparently Myon Burrell was in a car full of gang members attempting to murder a member of a rival gang named Timothy Oliver via a drive by shooting. However the shooter missed and killed Tyesha Edwards instead. Oliver identified the shooter by name, and picked him out of a lineup. However, the weapon was not recovered, and consequently there was no fingerprint nor DNA evidence. Burrell was identified by Oliver, other people in the car identified Burrell as the shooter, and a jailhouse snitch testified that Burrell admitted to the killing.
And that's the point where I sit up. If the prosecution's case depends to any degree on a jailhouse snitch then there must not be much of a case. Yet a man, who back then was a teenager, is in prison for the rest of his life, in part on the testimony of a gang member (Mr. Oliver), companions who fingered Mr. Burrell but later recanted, and a jailhouse snitch. I'm not sure I'd convict a dog of chasing a cat based on that meager level of "evidence." Others may disagree.
FWIW the statement of the Hennepin County Attorney's office is here.
Diversity, yesterday, today, tomorrow, and with progress.
Amy’s husband was cured of the China Flu with Dr. Trump’s cure so she’s out
"I'm a Black Activist on Vice President patrol."
I don't believe that James Clyburn turned out the black voters of South Carolina just so Joe Biden could pick a white girl as his VP running mate.
The supposed "Russian asset" identified by Hillary Clinton was Tulsi Gabbard.
Of course it's nonsense, except as an indication of how Clinton's mind works and possibly of how the Deep State (if it exits) acts to protect its interests.
If Clinton had fingered Klobuchar it would at least have made Amy interesting.
They don't have to pick anyone - they're going to lose.
I'd feel more favorably towards them if they bowed out now.
Bahahahhahahahhahha
He made his bed, now he is forced to lay in it. He already said he was picking a black woman. Stacy is posing like the supermodel the left tells her she is to get ready for the big job. Have a great next 4 years with President Donald Trump!!!
stevew said...
Nikki Haley. That would be downright Trumpian of Biden. Would convince me to vote for him.
5/24/20, 5:42 PM
Nikki Haley would NEVER lower herself to change to Democrat. She is smart.
Myon Burell was in the car when someone in that car shot the innocent child. The shooting was premeditated. He is not innocent, even if some other gang member who was there with him now says so years after the conviction. The Innocence Project coaches such people and manufactures "statistics" out of thin air. They've replaced actually guilty people with actually innocent ones. Many of their biggest cases are pardons of correctly convicted offenders.
What Biden is doing by denouncing the excellent 1994 crime bill is saying to white female victims of crime: I'm kowtowing to young radical black political activists over you and over all the older black citizens who begged me for that precise crime relief in the 90's. Including the CBC back then.
Biden will pick a black man for VP. The surprise will mitigate the abandonment of his promise to women. It will be seen as courageous. The default stance of Democrat women is public prostration, no matter how they feel personally, so they'll fall in line. Then the DNC will boot Biden, elevate his VP to P and install Klobuchar or Warren as VP.
Veep predicted pretty much all of this.
It is standard practice that journalists don't write their own headlines. There are writers who ONLY write headlines and who are interested in drawing readership -- not in capturing an accurate introduction to the piece.
In many articles, the journalist looks dishonest, not because of the article, but because of the absurdly misleading headline.
If the press is interested in reforming its image, let journalist write their own headlines and chyrons.
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