Whatever the Bidens end up deciding, it's baffling that they seem to think it would somehow reflect badly on his career to bow out.
Screen cap on left: NYT on the Bidens' thinking
Screen cap on right: My suggestion that this isn't a good way to think about the situation
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GS's piece is not from NYT, it does not echo NYT, it distinctly takes issue with NYT mind-readers, and it lays out a very well-balanced summation of the odds and the stakes as we know them in these first days post-debate-debacle.
Yes. How do you read "My suggestion that this isn't a good way to think about the situation"❓
Assume you have read newrepublic.com/article/1832...
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Greg is saying that this is what the NYT says about Biden's thinking, and is further saying that Biden's thinking as described by NYT is not a useful way to think about the situation.
I am saying that the NYT doesn't know shit about Biden's thinking and to the extent that they do know anything they're the last people I trust right now to interpret or extrapolate from what they know.
It's an election year. A thing we ALL suffer from is the memories of a goldfish when it comes to what social media is like in an election year. Especially the corners that political junkies (derogatory) like me favor.
Every NYT article about Biden and the White House has to be understood through the framing that no one in the Biden operation who matters will talk to the NYT.
Good idea since this same rag helped hand the presidency to Trump the first time with the no links between Russia and Trump and the Hilary email drumbeat.
