dagblog - Comments for "Biden and Obama’s ‘Odd Couple’ Relationship Aged Into Family Ties" http://dagblog.com/link/biden-and-obama-s-odd-couple-relationship-aged-family-ties-28034 Comments for "Biden and Obama’s ‘Odd Couple’ Relationship Aged Into Family Ties" en 1) for a variety of reasons - http://dagblog.com/comment/267386#comment-267386 <a id="comment-267386"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/267385#comment-267385">2/2 The main issue in the</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>1) for a variety of reasons - including being seen as a fickle, treacherous woman - Hillary didn't have the freedom to run against Obama's record and policies, so they became joined at the hip. Oddly, VP Biden wasn't so constrained, and his crappy little deathbed seance with Beau leaked to Maureen Dowd, combined with his pull-the-pin "consolation" speech didn't much enamour me to him.</p> <p>2) Again I'll speculate that the Michigan primary might have been when Russians tested out their ability to make votes disappear. Not that Hillary couldn't have used more time in the white outback rather than just Flint water making the headlines (and Obama's help bailing out Detroit 7 years earlier should have been a strong pull, but "what have you done for me lately" rules our world, and Bernie's anti-TPP stance projected a world that'd disappeared, along with misstating the actual goals of TPP, so that like the misleading back-to-coal message in W. Va - it'd already moved west of the Mississippi and wasn't coming back - Hillary got burned by fake populist non-solutions solutions.</p> <p>3) and yeah, learning to speak poetry...</p> <p>4) Mook gets a pretty big pass for what I think was sometimes not the strongest performance. Though thank god she didn't re-up with her previous pollster - that was largely a disaster.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 28 Apr 2019 17:53:00 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 267386 at http://dagblog.com 2/2 The main issue in the http://dagblog.com/comment/267385#comment-267385 <a id="comment-267385"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/biden-and-obama-s-odd-couple-relationship-aged-family-ties-28034">Biden and Obama’s ‘Odd Couple’ Relationship Aged Into Family Ties</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">2/2 The main issue in the relationship, as <a href="https://twitter.com/peter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Peter</a> points out, was Obama's effort to push Biden out of the race in 2015 to help Hillary -- by deploying Plouffe. Here's my 2016 story on the episode, with lotsa details that are still pretty relevant now.<a href="https://t.co/o23zuVB0mT">https://t.co/o23zuVB0mT</a></p> — Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennThrush/status/1122524545292931073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:10:32 +0000 artappraiser comment 267385 at http://dagblog.com