Any individual donor who'd give one red cent to Biden is crazy. He's the esablishment-institutional troll. He sandbagged all along to not have to disclose his financing. Wall Street? Who? Every other candidate filed a first quarter FEC disclosure. The man is not the one. It will be four more years of Trump if this Biden thing ousts Bernie/Warren. Hillary Biden. More cautious with his speeches and speech fee, but otherwise, clear kinship. DWS for Veep? Tom Perez? One of the Podesta brothers? Chelsea? Please early primary voters, scrub for progress.
Puffery, plus, per Strib's carried AP feed:
In a video posted on Twitter , Biden focused on the 2017 deadly clash between white supremacists and counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Biden noted Trump's comments that there were some "very fine people" on both sides of the violent encounter, which left one woman dead.
"With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it," Biden said. "And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had seen in my lifetime."
"We are in the battle for the soul of this nation," Biden continued. "If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation — who we are. And I cannot stand by and watch that happen."
If this nation has a soul, besides top sidebar characterization, it involves Bernie and Warren and progressive policy, not platitudes. Biden need not stand by and watch, he could be out campaigning for Bernie, Warren, and Progress. Porcine flight being more likely.
Truthdig.
DWT.
Tune.
"Never Trump" surely hit the shoals; rats abandoning in an eyeblink. We are better. We are not Republicans.
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Without the piano player, he's nothing.
Tune. Notice how you can play both YouTube items together, same message.
Try a sincerity check. Compare and contrast; Bernie on YouTube, no piano, talking policy, talking grassroots, talking volunteer effort.
FURTHER: Vox analyzes. All the rational teardown of career lowpoints in hindsight, surgically analytical, while not getting to the simple fact that Biden in that video comes across as phony as a three dollar bill. Piano, marching Nazis, and Statue of Liberty cut away footage whereas Bernie just described what his values and aims are. No props, no scripting into a beltway consultancy cliche format.