Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for President

[adrina]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/opinion/joe-biden-president.html

He has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump — a demagogue and pathological liar. It’s time to learn a lesson from the progressive and centrist forces in France who, despite profound political differences, came together this week to soundly defeat right-wing extremism.

But for over two weeks now, the corporate media has obsessively focused on the June presidential debate and the cognitive capabilities of a man who has, perhaps, the most difficult and stressful job in the world. The media has frantically searched for every living human being who no longer supports the president or any neurologist who wants to appear on TV. Unfortunately, too many Democrats have joined that circular firing squad.

Yes. I know: Mr. Biden is old, is prone to gaffes, walks stiffly and had a disastrous debate with Mr. Trump. But this I also know: A presidential election is not an entertainment contest. It does not begin or end with a 90-minute debate.

Enough! Mr. Biden may not be the ideal candidate, but he will be the candidate and should be the candidate. And with an effective campaign taht speaks to the needs of working families, he will not only defeat Mr. Trump but beat him badly. It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

I understand that some Democrats get nervous about having to explain the president’s gaffes and misspeaking names. But unlike the Republicans, they do not have to explain away a candidate who now has 34 felony convictions and faces charges that could lead to dozens of additional convictions, who has been hit with a $5 million judgment after he was found liable in a sexual abuse case, who has been involved in more than 4,000 lawsuits, who has repeatedly gone bankrupt and who has told thousands of documented lies and falsehoods.

This is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We can do better. We must do better. Joe Biden knows that. Donald Trump does not. Joe Biden wants to tax the rich so that we can fund the needs of working families, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. Donald Trump wants to cut taxes for the billionaire class. Joe Biden wants to expand Social Security benefits. Donald Trump and his friends want to weaken Social Security. Joe Biden wants to make it easier for workers to form unions and collectively bargain for better wages and benefits. Donald Trump wants to let multinational corporations get away with exploiting workers and ripping off consumers. Joe Biden respects democracy. Donald Trump attacks it.

This election offers a stark choice on issue after issue. If Mr. Biden and his supporters focus on these issues — and refuse to be divided and distracted — the president will rally working families to his side in the industrial Midwest swing states and elsewhere and win the November election. And let me say this as emphatically as I can: For the sake of our kids and future generations, he must win.

Sorry, c/p is cranky.

 

[butters]

i me some Bernie

 

[LostHorizon]

Bernie Sanders got fucked hard up the ass by his own party… twice.

They should give him the nomination after passing him over the last two elections.

 

[ll74]

Bernie Sanders got fucked hard up the ass by his own party… twice.

They should give him the nomination after passing him over the last two elections.

Sanders is an independent.

 

[Pad_Foot]

Bernie Sanders got fucked hard up the ass by his own party… twice.

They should give him the nomination after passing him over the last two elections.

No!

Vp?? Maybe, but then we can’t hammer on ‘rump’s age

 

[LostHorizon]

Sanders is an independent.

Who caucuses with the Democrats. He is more progressive than Biden.

Are you saying if he was a registered Democrat they wouldn’t fuck him out of the nomination twice? I seriously doubt that.

 

[ll74]

Who caucuses with the Democrats. He is more progressive than Biden.

He's an independent. He is not a Democrat so his party did not turn on him.

Are you saying if he was a registered Democrat they wouldn’t fuck him out of the nomination twice? I seriously doubt that.

He's an independent. He became a Democrat to run as a Democrat and then left the party shortly after.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Clinton’s supporting Harris. Obama’s seem, and I stress seem, to not be supporting Harris and suggest an “eventual candidate”, (I paraphrase).

Which legacy democrat is going to win out guiding the party?

 

[LostHorizon]

He's an independent. He is not a Democrat so his party did not turn on him.


He's an independent. He became a Democrat to run as a Democrat and then left the party shortly after.

We can argue literal technicalities all night. He got fucked over by the Democratic Party which he is aligned with, whatever ever way you want to look at it.

 

[ll74]

We can argue literal technicalities all night. He got fucked over by the Democratic Party which he is aligned with, whatever ever way you want to look at it.

He did not. He lost the primary.

A party that he is not a part of chose someone else.