Sanders knocks Biden over short speeches

[brooklynite]

Politico

Bernie Sanders on Monday evening confronted head-on questions regarding Joe Biden’s fitness for the presidency — declining to directly attack his rival’s stamina, but suggesting that brief speeches last week by Biden on the campaign trail were insufficient to address the nation’s problems.

The remarks from the Vermont senator targeting the former vice president came at a Fox News town hall for Sanders, where a participant charged that Biden’s answers “don't make sense” and asked Sanders whether it was “acceptable” for a White House hopeful to answer questions “like Joe Biden does?”

Sanders said that when his campaign conducts events and rallies, “we respect people in a sense that we give really substantive — these guys will think maybe too long-winded answers,” he said, gesturing to the forum’s moderators.

“There are real crises facing this country. When I give a speech, often it’s 45 minutes or an hour, OK? Because there are a lot of challenges that the country faces, and I’ve got to talk about them,” Sanders continued, before launching into a critique of Biden.

Fidel Castro always likes long speeches...

[NurseJackie]

1. I prefer QUALITY over QUANTITY. That applies to words as well.

[honest.abe]

2. Sanders has given the same basic speech over and over and over hundreds of times..

and cant seem to expand outside his standard comfort zone issues.

Could that be some sort of mental decline issue??

[oasis]

10. +1,000,000

[William769]

17. +1

[Happy Hoosier]

3. Honestly, does anyone need to hear Sanders' same ole, same ole 45 min-hour speech AGAIN?

No one is learning anything new at these rallies. They are RALLIES, not lectures.

[MrsCoffee]

4. Fucking 80 yr old who just had a heart attack and won't release medical records says what?!?

No one wants to be scolded for 45 minutes to an hour. That’s why Sanders numbers are underwater. Nothing but nasty divisiveness on repeat.

Just go home Bernie. Spend some quality time with family while you can.

[zackymilly]

12. Spring is coming. Bernie has 3 yards to mow. n/t

[samnsara]

5. i for one walk away from speeches an hr long...

..i dont need to be hit over the head with a long winded account of what i am doing wrong...

[mindem]

6. It's a matter of quality

not quantity. Sanders and his minions really need to give it a rest.

[treestar]

7. Nowadays no one will pay attention to a longer speech

At least not for the entire thing.

[patricia92243]

8. If long is better, then Trump should win the gold prize.

[spooky3]

31. +1

[gollygee]

9. He's in no position to question other people's health and fitness

But he's predictably negative.

[awesomerwb1]

13. Well, Bernie has been giving the same speech

for years now. It's laughable longer speeches = better.

[Butterflylady]

14. The only thing he's doing is making his point

And then regurgitating it over and over. As for me, I don't care for long speeches. Get to the point or points and done.

[onenote]

15. JFK's inaugural address was 14 minutes

Obama’s 2004 convention speech was 17 minutes


The Gettysburg Address was around three.

No one is going to remember anything from Bernies stump speeches

[Docreed2003]

30. +1

Spot on. Bernie's stump speech is only memorable in the sense that it's the same speech he's been giving for five years!

[Amishman]

39. The Gettysburg Address was also preceded by a two hour speech by Rev. Eduard Everett

which was over 16000 words, which no one remembers.

Lincolns speech was under 300 words, and is iconic.

Saying more with less is a gift.

[Blue_true]

42. You should go online and spread these facts around.

Facebook, Twitter, ect. This is the type of good information that need to be in those places.

[dalton99a]

16. Any politician knows we need speeches that have intermissions

Castro holds the Guinness Book of Records title for the longest speech ever delivered at the United Nations: 4 hours and 29 minutes, on Sept. 29, 1960. His longest speech on record in Cuba was 7 hours and 10 minutes in 1986 at the III Communist Party Congress in Havana.

[onetexan]

27. Interesting factoid! Maybe that's the record Bernie is trying to break. After all, didn't he

compliment this tinpot dictator?

[MineralMan]

18. "And, besides that," Sanders said,

"Joe Biden does not gesticulate enough in his speeches. Without hand waving and finger pointing, how can he get his message across, after all?"

[SunsetDreams2]

19. Oh good grief!

[bobbieinok]

20. Bet he'd have really criticized Lincoln for short Gettysburg Address!!

[OnDoutside]

21. Perhaps he longs for those long speeches that Castro used to give ?

[Moderateguy]

22. Biden, unlike Sanders, seems to know people have short attention spans

Most people stop caring about what you have to say if you drone on

[Lulu KC]

23. Maybe with shorter speeches, Joe

can actually go where he says he's going to go. Such as Kansas City, which Bernie cancelled.

[Dem2]

24. "I won't question his mental state"

..."or will I...?"

[Politicub]

25. We don't need another size-queen in office

I'm gay so I can say that. Deal with it or laugh at it. I don't care. Or better yet, imagine that you are part of my circle of cattiest gay friends and we are chatting and enjoying a nice bottle of wine.

I'm tired of comparing the length of this to the length of that. Whatever.

What a useless observation from Bernie -- and from a town hall on Fox News nonetheless.

[onetexan]

26. LOL substance over subterfuge, Bernie

Joe's well-writtened, well-timed speeches are DA BOMB - full of substance and issues ordinary Americans grapple with everyday.
Bernie is grasping at straws as usual. I'd rather watch a substantive 7-minute speech than a long rant containing nonsensical ideas by a finger-wagging grumpy uncle.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

28. Long speeches help distribute coronavirus. Cancel these rallies -- use video instead.

[RandySF]

29. Sanders knocks Biden over being right-handed instead of left.

[spooky3]

32. I care more about accomplishments than speeches. Nt

[True Blue American]

33. Preachers are taught

In the Seminary to keep their Sermons short, 20 to 25 minutes,at the most. After that you lose people’s attention. Maybe Joe knows that! Just sayin’!

Pence is speaking right now. You can tell Trump is not listening to a word he says. Dead Eye Dick.

[apnu]

34. In Sanders FB groups that I am a member of they've been floating ads to highlight Joe's stutter.

I shit you not. The US Democratic Socialists group had a whole discussion about it, most thought it was a great idea. They even went so far as to say they were doing Joe a favor, that by going negative about Joe's speech now is better than Trump doing it in the G.E.

These are the good guys? If this is where they are at, that means they have nothing left to say. Their argument and movement is out of gas, both in enthusiasm and intellectualism.

I consider myself a progressive, but this disgusts me.

[BidenBacker]

35. Yeah, like Fox News viewers really care about a POTUS answering questions

They voted for a guy who yells unintelligible gibberish in response to questions on the White House lawn over the roar of Marine One and whose administration hasn't held a press briefing in over a year.

But dammit, Biden's answers are just too damn short!

[beachbumbob]

36. Ideologues love to hear themselves drone on for hours and hours

as if that means anything positive

[Kahuna7]

37. Bernie likes the sound of his own voice. Biden is a doer, not a talker. nt

[Blue_true]

40. Well, Bernie does like Fidel Castro, a man known for giving day long speeches. nt

[vercetti2021]

41. Okay

And I don't want to hear speeches that are the same crap since 2015. Yeah goes both ways Bern.

[Hekate]

43. That's all Sanders has now? Effing FOX News & an audience question like that?

Please spare me....

[MyNameGoesHere]

44. To be honest though

I could and sometimes still listen to a two hour Fidel speech and be amused, thoughtful and intrigued. The Independent Senator from Vermont does none of that for me.