Posted on 03/09/2020 4:19:49 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
The old geezers get to sit now. – Catering to every whim of their chosen candidate, the DNC and CNN announced on Sunday that tired, obviously declining Quid Pro Joe Biden will get his wish for the next Democrat debate later this week. He and his fellow, much healthier septuagenarian, Bernie Sanders, will be seated at a table with the moderators.
The debate, which oddly takes place on Sunday night, will present a radically changed format from previous debates at which all the candidates stood at podiums for two hours. For the remaining “hey you kids, get off my lawn!” brigade of candidates, doing that became a test of endurance that Sanders was perfectly willing to continue but Biden was obviously anxious to end.
From a report by Politico on the matter:
Bernie Sanders wants to stand up at the next debate — and his campaign is accusing Joe Biden of wanting to sit down.
After a private call Friday with CNN, which is moderating the March 15 debate with the Democratic National Committee, Sanders’ team balked at a new proposed format for debate, saying it gives his opponent Biden too much of a break in their first one-on-one face-off. Biden’s camp denied that it was pressing for a sit-down debate.
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“Why does Joe Biden not want to stand toe-to-toe with Sen. Sanders on the debate stage March 15 and have an opportunity to defend his record and articulate his vision for the future?” asked Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ senior adviser.
Biden’s campaign and the DNC said the format for the debate was decided by the party and CNN. The news network declined to comment and referred questions to the DNC.
“We will participate in whatever debate CNN chooses to stage: standing, sitting, at podiums, or in a town hall,” Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said. “The problem for the Sanders campaign is not the staging of the debate, but rather, the weakness of Sen. Sanders’ record and ideas.”
There’s no secret what’s happening here: The standing format had Biden visibly tiring towards the end of the last debate. During the last 40 minutes or so, he repeatedly lashed out at the moderators and fellow candidates, and struggled to form sentences. There is a reason why his standard campaign stump speech, during which he roams around a stage before a tiny audience, lasts no more than 15 minutes.
Also catering to Biden’s needs, the setting will be similar to one of his campaign events, with a stage surrounded by a Biden-like small audience. Even better for Biden, the format will include questions from the attendees, which in Democrat debates tend to consist mainly of sophomoric iterations of “how much of other people’s money are you planning to give to me and my family after you’re elected?” or “how many trillions of our grandchildren’s dollars are you willing to throw away on AOC’s climate change pipe dreams?”
Including audience questions helps to break up the normal flow of a debate, and allows Biden to avoid a lot of head-to-head exchanges of ideas with The Commie and just talk about all the mythical things he did during the “Obiden/Bama” administration, as he called it on Saturday.
Changing the qualification rules in order to exclude Tulsi Gabbard – the only remaining woman/minority candidate in the race – from this debate also works in Biden’s favor. Gabbard is no friend of the Party’s ruling class, and already effectively killed the candidacy of Kamala Harris in a debate last fall. Eliminating her helps to clear the minefield for Creepy Uncle Joe.
Thus, we see the DNC and its toadies at CNN taking no chances with their plan to literally carry the nation’s Unfrozen Caveman Senator across the finish line to the party’s nomination. With primaries in the delegate-rich states of Florida, Illinois, Ohio and Arizona taking place just two days later, a big Biden breakdown on-stage in this debate could shift the race right back in The Commie’s favor. Having Quid Pro Joe comfortably seated at a table significantly reduces the prospects for disaster.
With polling data now trending strongly in his favor, Biden now has a clearly achievable path to being able to win the nomination on the first ballot in Milwaukee. Somewhere, President Donald Trump is celebrating.
That is all.
Is Joek’s wife going to be able to stand close to him and prevent him from brainfarts.
I’d like to see them both debating by tapping Morse code with a tin cup on the bars of their jail cells, but that’s just me
By debate time they may need to roll in Hospital beds for everyone.
CNN, which is part of the dnc, will take orders and if requested just cancel the 'debate'.
If sleepy joe is out front in numbers, they may not risk showing him for two hours.
It wouldn't surprise me if cnn ran the debate on a 10 second tape delay so that any critical gaffes can be eliminated.
Not again. Did Donna give jomentia the answers to the questions in advance? He couldn’t remember them anyway. Tulsi?...she was always an NPCer...eye candy, brain poisoned ‘rat. March 15, eh? Not the “thrilla in manila”. The Thrilla in Vanilla...a couple of stale old crackers who came out of the cupboard. Feeble vs. Feeble-Minded. Shave your head and get some tats, Bern. Spice it up a bit. Show your sycophants you’re a serious contenda. You coulda been some buddy, buddy.
The rigging of the DNC primaries has become so blatant that they and their lapdog ponysoldier media are pretending that it’s normal.
“The old geezers get to sit now.”
Won’t sitting slur Joe’s speech? Just askin’.
dopey joe's sisterwife will be allowed to answer for him, yes.
Bernie Sanders is a weak person. He’s got a bunch of supporters who are behind him 100% bit he refuses to fight for them. Imagine that mentality as President. No thank you. All he does is try and reassure the party bosses that he’ll support the nominee. Just drop out already if you don’t plan on fighting for the nomination
If nobody wins on the first ballot, they could have a wheelchair race to determine the winner!
She’ll be in control of his shock collar
Tulsi’s out? Van Jones must’ve convinced CNN that only Joe and Bernie can cut the cheese.
“Won’t sitting slur Joe’s speech? Just askin’.
...lol! It’ll certainly muffle it.
Only a corrupt old white guy with onset dementia can save us now!
Bernie and his shock troops should refuse to agree to this format. They have enough muscle to make life for CNN extremely uncomfortable if they don’t agree.
Well, they have one empty chair out of office and available now. Ask Clint Eastwood to borrow it.
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