RealLindaL wrote: zsomething wrote:He could have done a much better response to Harris last night, but he didn't, and it cost him.
Yes, am afraid that's so. I was especially surprised, when it came to having dealt with racist/supremacist congressmen in the past, that Biden didn't clearly emphasize he'd brought it up to demonstrate he can work not only across party aisles, but across deep ideological divides as well (
which still exist today, he should've said), to GET THINGS DONE.
Lost opportunity for Joe. He's just not quick enough. I think he's toast, but we'll see.
Am not sure whom to be rooting for. Warren's strident tones are off-putting to me; Harris is better but sometimes her semi-hysterical-sounding laughter scares me just a little bit. I have to say Buttigieg gives me the best sense of SOLIDITY and calm deliberation. I'm afraid a too-angry candidate will frighten off voters who're on the fence.
And OMG that candidate Marianne Williamson, who was going to meet Trump's bigotry with LOVE??? Are you kidding me??? She was absolutely PITIFUL. Hope she drops out immediately.
Marianne Williamson is a space-orphan. I'm not even counting her as a serious candidate. She's amusing to watch, but, yeah, she needs to drop out and open a scented candle store or something. She's just comedy relief. The other day when they asked the candidates what their comfort food was, she said "I don't have a comfort food." I kinda wanted to yell out, "What about kale? I bet you like kale!" Baby carrots? I dunno. She's funny but she also seems to be an open wound. There's just something
broken in her, you can hear it rattling. She's so tremulous she always seems on the verge of bolting into the woods, like a startled deer.
Biden definitely should have just said he was wrong on bussing. I don't think he's any kind of bigot or racist at all, nor do I think he's a perv, but he's handled all of those controversies in a very clumsy way, and it's hurt him.
Warren's delivery is a little strained, but I like her wonkishness. She does have ideas. I'm not sure they'd all be do-able, but, at least she does think. It's good to hear Bernie-ish ideas with actual
plans attached to them, rather than Bernie's "people will rise up and cause a revolution!" hogwash. This is America, nobody's getting off their couch or risk their access to Netflix long enough to do any of that stuff.
Harris can be off-putting once in a while, but overall she's pretty powerful. And Buttiegeig continues to impress. Booker and Castro also did well the other night. The "too-angry" factor is a consideration, but... they're running against Trump. Anybody's going to seem like Bob Ross when the other guy is that tantrum-tossin' Mousse-olini. It'll negate the "angry" factor a bit. And, remember Obama's first debate against Romney? Obama was trying to tamp down any image of being "angry," and got dusted pretty badly in that debate because he was too underplayed. He made up for it by kicking Romney's ass in the next two, but sometimes showing no anger can be a mistake. And while we've got a president who's setting up concentration camps and letting humans who have nothing suffer and die... ehh, I think maybe anger'll be okay, as long as it's not unhinged.
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