-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Bernie, Warren snipe at Biden for skipping California Dem Convention. He was the LGBTQ civil rights gala in Ohio.
- Thread starter OtherWorldly
- Start date
Considering we cant really find biden anywhere but schmoozing with rich donors most of the time, i think its pretty reasonable to ask where he is, if not at a dem convention.
Although it is pretty funny that he's at an LGBTQ event in this instance, i guess we can give him a pass this time...as long as it doesnt have any comcast or big pharma executives
It would help if he started actually campaigning and not thinking he doesnt have to do anything or engage with the other candidates because he is Obama's friend therefore on another level
Although it is pretty funny that he's at an LGBTQ event in this instance, i guess we can give him a pass this time...as long as it doesnt have any comcast or big pharma executives
It would help if he started actually campaigning and not thinking he doesnt have to do anything or engage with the other candidates because he is Obama's friend therefore on another level
I mean, also it's not that important if his goal is to win the General.
Politics is extremely cynical, manipulative and calculated so your prob right on the money
I'm confident everyone knew this beforehand but still pressed on. I hope they don't grab the idiot ball like this during the general election.
Welcome to U.S. presidential primaries lol
We ain't seen nothing yet.
Biden has been pretty solid on LGBTQ Rights. He was signaling support for Gay marriage while Obama was still evolving his views. Was this event skip a calculated move? lets be real here a Democrat is winning California no matter what. Being at other events is not going to Harm Biden and its not an event that's going to win him Conservative votes so its not all politics.
^^^
Bernie and warren should continue taking shots even if there was an excuse this time.
It's not even a good excuse. Bernie and several other candidates had their speeches today. Biden could have absolutely made it.
The real harm will come when people realize he's not actually trying to campaign with the other candidates and coasting off of his name recognition. while running from the people the ground , who were at this event quite clearly.
Its nice to be at a LGBT gala, but the candidates that were hitting him have more spotless records on LGBTQ rights than him(despite being better on the issue than the worst of them), especially Sanders going back to the 80s and 70s. What matters is if Biden is going to actually start engaging until the other candidates cant stop hitting him over the head with it
Yeah, I think this is it. It pains me to say people I agree with more walked in to it and Biden looks better for it. Ugh!
They should shut up about where Biden is and tell the crowd why THEY should be president. All they managed to do by speaking out against Biden was look stupid.
To the kind of voters his campaign is playing for, yes. Not saying it's right, just that it fits with his strategy thus far which is to go for the Dems' own version of the "Silent Majority."
It's tongue-in-cheek on my part but this sentiment is all too real for a large segment of voters, including many in the Democratic base.
The California Democratic convention is a 3 day event with the candidate addresses in all sorts of time slots. Biden could have absolutely made both events if he wanted to go.
Or what? He won't win California when he's the nominee? Perhaps the better question is why weren't the others in states that actually matter.
Pretty much. Dude isn't going to look great next to other dems
Arguably this headline benefits him more than going to the California Democratic convention. And, to be frank, who bases their vote on whether or not someone attended a state convention? Like this is the most drop in the bucket, inside-politics thing and it only benefits Biden for people to get stuck on it.
Biden's not gonna look great in any context to people that actually understand the details of what he did. But that's a minority of a minority, seeing as just about every candidate's base love him and would pick him as a second choice, so the visuals wouldn't have an impact (Not that the average, or even the average informed, voter is even going to pay attention to a state convention). Like, when's the last time you actually watched a state convention?
All these candidates have been in multiple states campaigning their asses off for this for months whereas Biden hasnt and decided he was too good for that, despite being the one with the most baggage. That's the rub. If he wanted to make a prerecorded statement, or even come back after the event he was at, that would be something important.
It's America when you take away most of its best scientists, thinkers, and entrepreneurs.
Fair point, but I still wish, in general, that they'd spend less time in CA. You are right, though.
*Remembers Bernie during the last primary*
Don't worry, they will...
Wow, that is supposed to be some kind of epic dunk? lol
Especially when it's in service of shining Biden in a positive light.
Especially when it's in service of shining Biden in a positive light.
What did Warren say?
Edit - Ah, in the AP article. Not really a snipe at him for not being there, just more of a general one.
Edit - Ah, in the AP article. Not really a snipe at him for not being there, just more of a general one.
They will spend very little time here during the general. Not sure what you are talking about.