Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) [2020 file photo].
An ad released by the Democratic National Committee:
Narrator: Five years ago Donald Trump descended to the basement of Trump Tower. For the last five years he’s brought America down with him, attacking health care for patients with pre-existing conditions, giving massive tax cuts to billionaires, not working families, praising white supremacists, stoking racial division, a White House in chaos, losing 300,000 jobs in a failed trade war with China, locking children in cages. He ignored science on Coronavirus and mislead the American people, stating it “would miraculously go away.” It didn’t. Now, over 100,000 dead Americans, 20 million jobs destroyed, recession.
Donald Trump: No, I don’t take responsibility at all.
Narrator: He shredded our alliances. And turned our military on American citizens.
You have the power to end the descent of our nation, to choose justice, unity, leadership.
Because we can’t afford four more years of Trump.
Joe Biden: I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message.
Yep.
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) [2014 file photo].
Because we can’t afford four more years of Donald Trump (r).
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
From one of the Democratic Party presidential candidates who didn’t make the debate “cut”:
Marianne Williamson @marwilliamson
The DNC is a private organization that claims it “does not owe voters an impartial or evenhanded primary.”
[….] 2:12 PM · Sep 1, 2019
Uh, you knew the rules going in. If you didn’t, both you and your campaign are incompetent and you deserve to lose.
Some of the comments:
For awhile I found you to be comic relief in what should be a serious process for the most important election of my lifetime. Now I’m finding you to be whiny and dangerous. You’ve received more attention for this race than your experience should ever have granted you.
You were treated more than fairly throughout the entire process. Your kooky self shouldn’t have been graced with the presence of being with US Senators on a presidential debate stage. Be grateful, and don’t be Jill Stein.
You never should have been allowed on the debate stage in the first place. You’re not a serious candidate. The party has been MORE than generous to you.
The DNC IS a private organization. They have no control who runs in the primary, but they don’t have to give you a stage or money. Glad you’re not on that stage. We have WAY too many qualified candidates
If you had been a viable candidate, you would still be in the running. But you’re not.
Your greatest political accomplishment is that you got 13% in a congressional primary once. That you are even given a chance to qualify for the presidential debates is evidence that the DNC isn’t ‘rigging’ it.
You were in two debates. The people heard what you had to say and told you to take a hike.
You didn’t resonate with enough of the American public to get in the third debate. That’s it.
Democratic voters heard you, and we rejected you.
There has got to a reduction in the field. Period.
If you were one we were seriously considering, it would have shown in the polls. If you’re not smart enough to figure that out, you wouldn’t make a good president anyway. Step aside gracefully. Or just step aside. Period.
The rules were clear from the beginning. You didn’t make the cut. Being upset about it is understandable but trying to lay blame anywhere but at your own feet is sad. Find a local seat you can run for & work your way back. Own the reasons you didn’t make it & fix those.
Visualize not whining
Ouch.
Comments like this are the reason you don’t need to be considered a serious candidate. Thanks for making this so clear.
Last night, President Obama at the Democratic National Convention:
President Obama: And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet. Because climate change is not a hoax. [cheers, applause] More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They are a threat to our childrens’ future. [cheers] And in this election you can do something about it.[cheers]
Definitely not a speech for any stupid people who let a fake news cable channel make up their minds for them.
2010: GOP Party Bosses say, “Charlie Crist is the best candidate.” 2012: Crist speaks at #DNC2012. Chip in & fight bac [….] 3:11 PM – 6 Sep 12
Todd Akin @ToddAkin
Party Bosses always seem to side with the Charlie Crist’s of the world, while turning their back on true conservatives. RT if you agree! 6:44 PM – 6 Sep 12
Todd Akin @ToddAkin
Join us in telling the Party Bosses that we don’t want another Charlie Crist. Chip in to stand up to them now! [….] #MOSen 9:18 PM – 6 Sep 12
Now you’ve gone and done it. Those republican “Party Bosses” aren’t going to want to ante up.
The best Twitter response so far – during the DNC’s evening speeches:
COLUMBIA – Republican senatorial candidate Todd Akin’s latest round of political ads have been pulled from the airwaves of KOMU 8 and other Missouri TV stations due to a lack of payment as of Thursday.
Akin’s camp placed an ad buy that was supposed to run in full through this week.
Standard procedure dictates that political ads must be paid in full before ads will run, but KOMU 8 received half of the payment for the Akin ads and ran half of the ad buy.
When KOMU 8 did not receive the rest of the money in time for the rest of the ad cycle, it pulled the ads.
The ads weren’t cancelled by the Akin camp.
KOMU 8 spoke with various television stations in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Columbia, and heard a similar story from each….
There are plenty of marks in the nation to eventually make up the difference, but you’ve got to find them first. It’ll be more difficult without the use of a grifter’s mailing list.
…but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
Wow, just, wow. Via Twitter:
Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
The democrats have insulted God and Israel: they removed all references to God in their platform and took out Jerusalem as Israel’s Capitol. 5:57 AM – 5 Sep 12
Heh. She wrote “democrats”. We write “republicans” all the time. But then, we’re sarcastic bloggers and not members of Congress.
As if anyone actually reads the party platforms, including republican [See, we did it again!] presidential candidates?:
….When word got out that the Republican platform called for the criminalization of abortion without reference to exceptions, the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, declined to bow to the candidate. “This is the platform of the Republican Party,” he told MSNBC. “It is not the platform of Mitt Romney….”
….Aside from making the rather idiotic assumption that this was a conscious act (in a purely political document why would a throwaway adjective that would offend almost no one be deleted?), Brody does not note that the platform has a whole section on “faith,” which reads:
Faith has always been a central part of the American story, and it has been a driving force of progress and justice throughout our history. We know that our nation, our communities, and our lives are made vastly stronger and richer by faith and the countless acts of justice and mercy it inspires. Faithbased organizations will always be critical allies in meeting the challenges that face our nation and our world – from domestic and global poverty, to climate change and human trafficking. People of faith and religious organizations do amazing work in communities across this country and the world, and we believe in lifting up and valuing that good work, and finding ways to support it where possible. We believe in constitutionally sound, evidence-based partnerships with faith-based and other non-profit organizations to serve those in need and advance our shared interests. There is no conflict between supporting faith-based institutions and respecting our Constitution, and a full commitment to both principles is essential for the continued flourishing of both faith and country.
So God wasn’t exactly expelled from the platform, it seems….
….As a believer myself, I dislike in particular the attribution to God of various secular ideas of “rights,” which are intended, frankly, to divinize political ideologies. I would, in fact, call that idolatry….
The Missouri Democratic Party met by congressional district across the state on Thursday evening to select delegates to the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina in early September. Delegates and alternates to the congressional district meetings were selected at county meetings in March. The 4th Congressional District meeting took place in Warsaw with 119 delegates voting to select three female and two male delegates to the national convention.
Delegates and alternates were required to sign in before 7:30 p.m.
with many arriving over an hour before the start of the meeting for a potluck dinner.
Delegates and a representative of the Missouri Democratic Party (center) in conversation before the meeting.
Delegates can campaign for themselves or others seeking one of the coveted congressional district national delegate spots.
Campaigning.
Holmes Osborne, the Democratic Party candidate in the 53rd Legislative District.
Members of the 4th Congressional District Democratic Committee (consisting of county chairs and vice chairs
and legislative district chairs and vice chairs) held a brief meeting before the start of the election of national delegates.
Alternates who were selected as voting delegates (as replacements for those delegates who were not able to attend)
are registered as delegates and receive their orange ballot card before the start of balloting.
Candidates for the three female delegate slots (as well as candidates for the two male delegate slots) were given the opportunity to make a one minute speech before the vote.
Counting the ballots cast for female delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Holding up orange delegate cards – waiting to receive ballots to vote
for the male delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
