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.
If questions were fed to Joe’s team, he may give perfect answers to the wrong questions.
Example:
Q: Do you support abortion?
A: We should not have walls.
MODERATOR: "Mr. Biden, what steps will you take to reign in the nuclear ambitions of North Korea?"
JOE BIDEN: "Thursday."
President Biden: You kids get off my lawn!
Secret Service: Mr President, it’s a White House tour.
I can see all the suspenders pushing and shoving to be number one in Biden’s Veepstakes because none of them believe he will make it four years if a miracle happens and he gets elected president.
The CNN "Comfy Chair" debate.
Not that I would ever want Mr. Sanders as President - he’s a friggin’ communist - but it is entertaining to watch the power elite of the ‘rat party screw him over, yet again. Last cycle Clinton was their chosen one, this time around it is crazy uncle Joe. Sanders doesn’t really stand a chance, he just doesn’t realize it or refuses to acknowledge it. Maybe in a twisted way he’s doing the rest of us a service. He’s revealing just how corrupt the democratic party and power structure is. That and his helping to fracture the ‘rat base - all good. Thanks Bernie!
When, in fact, the democRATS and the DNC give them the candidate they themselves want.
If Biden is going to be the nominee based on a rigged primary process by the powers to be and he were to somehow win the general election against Trump (never going to happen without the democRATS and the DNC rigging the general election), he would need a sock puppet to run his presidency.
His obvious dementia is getting progressively worse as the campaign continues.
But no one seems to want to talk about the obvious 800-lb. gorilla in the room.
Biden is in no condition to be president.
Trump will win this election by a huge landslide. The democRATS got nuthin'.
Obviously They rigged the rules to protect Joe. They aren’t about to let Tulsi hurt Joe. Bernie is taking a dive or least take it easy on Joe. Tulsi could shred Biden and the DNC is not going to let that happen. The deluded morons that make up the rat base are not even questioning it.
The one thing they can’t do to help Biden is to have a substitute debater stand in for him.
Thank you.
Dems and media have begun putting out the narrative that videos, not approved by them, showing the true Dem(entia) Joe, are in fact edited by Bernie/Trump/Vlad.
Coming from CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC/NPR/MSNBC/all the usual suspects, the only videos of Dem(entia) Joe we will be seeing will be heavily edited to remove any slurring or cock eyed utterances. (Pity the task ahead for the poor video editors.)
I hope Rush can help to slow this down.
Quick visit to Democrat Underground shows they are busy blaming the Russians, Trump and Bernie Bros for any crazy videos of their hero.
They may also have Sleepy Joe on a wire telling him the answers. I can imagine them telling him to “wake up!” and he answers the question, “Wake up!” with a dazed look in his eyes.
I suggest they get him a rocking chair and an ear trumpet (with a built-in prompter).
I know people laugh about stuff like this; but, think about it. This is what the Dems call their best candidate to beat Trump. A guy who is obviously in the early stages of dementia.
Can’t believe this crook is now the contender.
They won’t debate economic policy or national security - they will will just argue about who can beat Trump.
Bernie will say that Biden is OK with the status quo of enabling big Pharma, Wall Street, crony capitalism and that Biden was OK with wars in the ME. He’ll say Biden is no different than the Republicans - that you can’t beat Trump if you are just like him. He’ll say healthcare, education and banking need to be completely nationalized to eliminate corporate greed and wealth inequality.
Biden will say Bernie is too far left - people aren’t ready for nationalizing - he will avoid using the word “socialism” but he’ll basically be saying Bernie is too socialist to beat Trump.
They will both keep saying the important thing is to get that racist Trump out of office. They will both promise reparations for slavery, pay off student debt, that climate change is an existential threat (Biden will not be able to pronounce it).
Both of them will start floating trial balloons regarding running mates, cabinet appointees, etc. - since that’s who Democrats will really be voting for.
I think it will be a boring, scripted debate in which they bash Trump more than they bash each other. They will laugh and assure the public that they will each fully support the other if nominated, and that they will gladly step down if age or health become an issue.
The moderators will throw softballs at Biden all night, and the next morning, his gaffes, garbled speech, incomplete sentences and other senior moments will be completely ignored by the MSM.
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