Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Michael McFaul: Biden "would restore American leadership and respect in the world overnight" [View all]NBachers
(19,472 posts)sabotaged government, and he has an already proven working relationship with the people he'll need to do it.
Put Joe Biden in last week's NATO summit - He'd fit right in and be accepted and welcomed. He's one of them.
Do shit I don't like? Sure he'd do shit I don't like. I used to get teeth-gritting sputtering pissed off at some of the neo-con stuff Clinton did. Obama? You think I didn't have my disappointments with him and his incremental carefulness along the way? Of course I did. You'll never get the entire package you personally want. But the stakes are too high right now not to go with Biden.
The stakes were too high when Johnson was driven out of office and the door was opened for Nixon the Crook.
The stakes were too high to "conscience vote" for Nader and open the door for Bush the Idiot King and war and chaos in the world.
The stakes were too high to "purity vote" for Sanders and allow Trump to create the Universe of Horrors we find ourselves in.
Do we have to learn the lesson again, with fascist Nazi-ism growing in our land and our world cooking itself to death, by diverting our votes out of the Democratic mainstream and up some political tributary?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden