I remember it, but it never got beyond that float. Same situation McCain dealt with in 2008 - they ran it back and voters were uncomfortable w a president who'd instantly be a lame duck
Yeah but then he got Kamala Harris as VP because Obama likes her, but she has negative charisma so the whole "let's cultivate a new candidate" plan never went into motion.
i remember a rumor that it was a gaff in a debate where he was supposed to promise a qualified POC as his running mate but oopsied and said woman of color and then he kinda got forced into picking Harris but idk how true that is 🤷
It's very generationally fitting that there is no alternative candidate for the very fact that the older dems have made absolutely sure to hold onto their positions regardless of outcomes, popularity, or senility, and have thus stunted the development of anyone else that would replace them.
Two of those candidates are complete outsiders, and extremely unserious.
(The actually serious one, who could definitely be president at some point, is also the one who took a position in the administration. Funny thing.)
The whole story was “prominent Biden advisers” saying in effect “we’re making this pledge but we can’t come out and make this pledge because of the political costs.”
This was nothing more than a float and it never went any further than that.
It is really weird that people are wanting to hold Biden to something he never said and only anonymous people did.
I get the calculation that he didn’t want to be a lame duck on day 1, but if he didn’t make a promise not to run for another term… then he didn’t make a promise not to run for another term
It was clever messaging at the time. And if he were 40 to 20 years younger, he could slimeball politician his way out of it.
He was shattered by Beau's death. Trump's a real danger, and our president is an experienced winner familiar with this particular foe he faces.
"He was too prepped."
maybe I’ve just lost the plot but biden has like a 40 year history of needlessly kicking his own ass in various goofy new ways then popping out the other side giggling like the caddyshack gopher so I dunno what I’m supposed to do as far as freaking out that he’s up to it yet again
Every obstacle the Democrats are facing right now is a self inflicted wound, and the unwillingness of their supporters to realize this is the worst part of it all
Yeah. Sigh.
I dunno. I wish to christ he had stuck to that. But he didn't.
And frankly, I think if anyone could lose to Trump, it might be Kamala Harris.
I'm speaking as a Brit so probably completely wrong, my opinion of American Politics is that the nearer you get to the top the more important it is to still be a white male. Obama was still at least a guy and a charismatic one at that. The damning truth is I don't think the US is ready for a woman.
BINGO.
This MIGHT have been the year we MIGHT have GRUDGINGLY voted for a WHITE woman - and then, if & ONLY if she'd been the PERFECT one.
(What's THAT? Fuck if I know. NOT Hillary Clinton.🙄)
But a BLACK woman? Absolutely not.
Our only chance for that is if Biden dies in office. Sad but true.
Obama was elected because he was the PERFECT Black candidate, & he ran the PERFECT campaign at the PERFECT moment.
This country is RIDDLED with racism. Perhaps fatally so. I don't know if it'll EVER be diminished enough in my lifetime to see another Black man - let alone woman - elected President.
I’ll never forget that Patton Oswald tweet when Hillary lost. He said:
Well, now we know. The US is more misogynist than it is racist. And it’s pretty fucking racist.
In the UK racism is still there throughout society but getting better, as for women leaders it always seems to play out that only bigoted fascist ones will do. Again not totally essential they're white as long as they're right of center enough. I think the next generation of voters will sort that.
Things change.
The clinging to this Mendacious Orange Messiah, by the GQP is unprecedented.
During the debate, he basically bragged on violating the Logan Act, and no one batted an eye.
