Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

still has some billionaires

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/joe-biden-hosts-wall-street-donors-at-ny-fundraisers-as-campaign-struggles.html

When liberals say they'll support a head of cabbage over Donald Trump, they're not kidding. https://t.co/86mM6IqurB

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) March 2, 2020

DIGNITY, always dignity

There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets.

Andrew Cockburn, last year

https://harpers.org/archive/2019/03/joe-biden-record/

Henwood otm

Also, Biden is a worse candidate than Hillary. She had - and still has - a hardcore base of support, and she’s smart, knowledgeable, and can speak well. Biden lacks all those things.

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) March 2, 2020

I have a hunch that "not Trump" might mean more for him than it did for her. But who knows, right?

i don't say this lightly, but henwood is worse than dennis perrin

Bad tweets are like Morbs’ Fox News

I think many Democrats genuinely believe Biden is "electable." It's also true that many blue party sinecures will vanish if Bernie is the nominee, while present jobholders will mostly keep their jobs for another four years if someone like Biden runs and loses. https://t.co/MD0Dj8y7Pg

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 2, 2020

I don't like Taibbi but that scans as pretty true to me.

biden woulda won in 2016, it isn't then anymore.

sad lol

https://politics.theonion.com/biden-wondering-where-all-this-support-was-when-he-stil-1842124077

Lot of #Joementum in the early days of March but there's still a tough road ahead for Biden. Some of the next steps in Joe's road to the White House here. pic.twitter.com/Km4VT6lHl7

— 𝖇𝖎𝖌 𝖇𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖓 𝖆𝖉𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 (@NickPinkerton) March 5, 2020

biden is going to accidentally call him obungler

— DougExeter (@Doug_Exeter) March 5, 2020

This is who establishment Democrats would like to make the President https://t.co/VXqK4a9Njv

— Votto 🌱 (@VottoPlantEmoji) March 5, 2020

The Jim Crow Democrats in the ascendancy again: "Biden said in 1977 that desegregation would create 'a racial jungle.'” Kamala Harris had one mission in the primaries: Do to Biden what Warren did to Bloomberg. But she backed off, retreated and quit...https://t.co/C5rp9MP6Ha

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) March 6, 2020

certainly can't see Trumpist Russians using that at all

Lol

This is incredible pic.twitter.com/GWreRuXn6V

— Nathan Tankus (@NathanTankus) March 7, 2020

hmmm
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESh9oDSXgAQkVr1?format=png&name=small

They allowed Joe Biden to speak for a whole seven minutes in front of his crowd of about 500 in St Louis today. During that short time he called himself “an Obiden-Bama Democrat” pic.twitter.com/UeZHiNCmEN

— jack allison (@jackallisonLOL) March 7, 2020

It's gonna be a great seven months.

(and four years)

bernie sanders almost said "a nation of ignorants" instead of "a nation of immigrants" in a speech today

Bernie was just about to say what he was really thinkin *touches nose knowingly*

It takes a nation of ignorants to hold us back.

it's hard to run a Rose Garden campaign when you don't live in the White House

Bernie was just about to say what he was really thinkin *touches nose knowingly*

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:59 (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

please dont do this, it spreads the cov

Deems we’re calling it the ‘vid plz

Covid’s Metamorphoses

What's effective about this Trump ad is that, contrary to current liberal/Democrat complaints this is a smear by opponents, it makes its case by compiling comments from Democrats and mainstream media analysts. pic.twitter.com/47pdXyYUT6

— Branko Marcetic (@BMarchetich) March 7, 2020

This is why Bernie is going to keep holding his tongue ^

For years, Joe Biden repeatedly referred to "fighting crime" as "cutting grass"––including in 2015 months after the Ferguson uprising. Here's a web archive of this line from his 2008 campaign website. https://t.co/fBp0Zl06fg pic.twitter.com/F4pb1nPEGU

— Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare) March 8, 2020

My partners mother (politically engaged Democrat in MA) said she just saw Biden on TV and was surprised by how old and frail he seemed, but that she thinks he'll be seen as physically declined not cognitively declined.

I thought that was interesting, from her perspective at least that means Biden hasn't been on TV enough or in such a way that his cognitive decline registered. And that while his physical state registered, it was a surprise

Whether this strategy of hiding him can continue through November is another matter, but that points to some degree of success at it so far.

Deeper questions about the person we see and the person we're told we see (for anyone, not just Biden). And which is the version we hold in our minds

A worthwhile read from @pareene. When "getting things done" is the brand, and what the "things" are is irrelevant.https://t.co/1YeXEuHEjV

— Mass for Shut-ins (is a podcast) (@edburmila) March 9, 2020

I put a FB post up the other day saying that Biden's capacity was a legitimate concern that needed to be acknowledged and addressed. My cousin Andy pushed back--not aggressively, but let's say adamantly: three comments and two messages in the next 24 hours, with an intimation that Biden concerns might be a conspiracy engineered by Trump. So Biden Bros do evidently exist--they're in Canada. My cousin's in his early '80s, I think.

No doubt he’s lost a step, but I think by now most people have seen him in action and come to their own conclusions about whether it’s disqualifying or not. My contrarian take is that he had a tendency to be loquacious to show off his grasp of policy especially foreign policy in a way that could seem a bit overbearing to the average person and he doesn’t do that anymore which is probably a win for likability.

Maybe we have the brainworms and he's functioning just fine!

do these brainworms make me Look, Fat

A+ doddering, can't imagine why this dude's time in the public eye is being limited

so we're all going to have to vote for this guy and try to motivate people who don't normally vote to vote for him too, aren't we

i just hope he will nominate a VP who speaks Spanish, like Tim Kaine. could lead to president beto o'rourke in 2021

from June

https://www.essence.com/op-ed/joe-biden-james-o-eastland-mississippi/

the worst possible biden vp choice would be like, romney, so that's what i'm going to expect

joe lieberman is still alive

the worst possible biden vp choice would be like, romney, so that's what i'm going to expect

Biden was literally talking about selecting a Republican as his running mate a couple of weeks ago

I think someone whose brain is functioning will beat him into accepting a woman of color or at least a woman. I doubt they'll worry about giving a sop to the left.

My Twitter suggestion was Jay Inslee + play up the idea that he might die in office.

Mike Pence?

lol

Abrams or Inslee are the only semi-plausible options I can see getting any sort of more-than-luke-warm enthusiasm from the kind of soft-left centrists on this board, but both of them would likely embarrass Biden in their ability to, and energy for, campaigning and communicating. When the dude most visibly responsible for his surge last week openly says the best hope of victory is to hide Biden from the voters, what plan can they have for the running mate?