"A plumber come with his tools to do a job ¨

By Flavius on Fri, 08/21/2020 - 7:16am |

or as Carlos Quintana (quondam red sox first baseman was conventionally alluded to )

¨see ball, hit ball.¨

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Well thank ye for posting a word or two to let us know you are still around! I ashamedly admit I was thinking last night that maybe you had left the planet.

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/21/2020 - 3:25pm

I agree with this interpretation of that zoom piece they showed at the convention last night.

Why did Sanders acquiesce so readily to Biden's victory? Because personal friendship counts for a lot. This was the main lesson Biden learned in the Senate and that Obama was too haughty to understand.

The cringe Zoom meeting of all his primary opponents showed this.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 21, 2020

It was clear from their unfeigned, beaming faces that every last one of them had been genuinely won over by the man.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 21, 2020

Fits with your "like a plumber with his tools to do his job" thing--one big tool he's got is that he knows how to work with anyone. And it's not by bullying, like say, LBJ method, it's because others trust him on a personal level.

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/21/2020 - 7:57pm

Gaffes? Sure. But Biden’s Message Discipline Won Him the Nomination.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. never wavered from his central message: that President Trump was a danger to American democracy, while he was a stable, experienced leader. Now it will be tested in a fierce battle with the president:

Turned this thread into a story.

Candidates who know why they’re running and what they want to say do well.

And @JoeBiden has had a consistent message + theory of the case since he entered the race in April of 2019 https://t.co/4J6cUW3UJD https://t.co/9nezI3bEED
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) August 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/21/2020 - 8:01pm

"A plumber come with his tools to do a job ¨

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