[Vision2020] Is Latah county competing for a least informative web site prize?

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 3/11/20 9:00 PM, Ted Moffett wrote:
> I am dismayed that Biden is likely the Democratic Party nominee for 
> president, given his alarming apparent cognitive decline, and 
> questionable history of political decisions.  Sanders appears far more 
> intellectually competent.
> In the upcoming March 15 debate this will be apparent, I think.   
> Vader Joe's light saber may be weaker, but he still needs to be 
> vanquished.  That's part of Bernie's job.


I have heard reports to the effect that the debate format is being 
changed to a town hall meeting that will allow questions from attendees 
at the gathering.  I suspect that the impetus for the format change is 
that less direct verbal contact between Biden and Sanders will tend to 
soften the conversation and protect Biden from Bernie.


> In some circles all that matters is who has the best chance to defeat 
> Trump, not who is the most competent candidate for the nation.  I 
> would rather Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Warren, Buttigieg, or 
> Bloomberg were the dem nominee, to pick a variety of political 
> orientations, rather then Biden!  All of them I think are far more 
> capable.


Whatever their capabilities might be, Obama and other factors have 
reduced them to waiting by the phone for an early November call to 
action, should they continue to prefer to play publicly.


> Cozy public familiarity and name recognition are dominant factors?  
> Isn't this "media popularity" approach responsible in part for Trump 
> assuming the presidency?
> https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/26/jim-clyburn-endorses-joe-biden-117667 
>
> "I know Joe. We know Joe. But most importantly, Joe knows us," Clyburn 
> said.


Well, that is quite a way from Lloyd Bentsen telling Dan Quayle that he 
is no Jack Kennedy, but he does make his point.

And that's fine from the South Carolina point of view.  But that view is 
not the national view, which requires a different perspective.

What I would like to know is whether the Democratic Convention, if it is 
all hell-bent for leather to choose Biden for the top spot, can be 
encouraged, or for all practical purposes required, to choose Bernie 
Sanders for the second spot on the national ticket.  If Biden must be in 
the top spot, though I am not yet conceding that point, a Biden / 
Sanders ticket might encourage me to look at the top line choices at the 
Fairgrounds in November.



Ken



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