Obama offers support for Joe Biden, but stops short of formally endorsing his presidential campaign

Business Insider ^ | 4/25/19 | Joe Perticone

[MV=PY]

The four pasty-white B’s!

Biden, Bernie, Beto, and Buttigieg.

All with insufficient victim points, except perhaps the homosexual.

What’s a Dem to do?

[SoFloFreeper]

huh. for 8 years he was good enough to be Prez if Obama was unable to complete his term, but 800 days later, Obama says “no” to endorsing Sleepy Joe.

what do ya think about that?

[ek_hornbeck]

The four pasty-white B’s! Biden, Bernie, Beto, and Buttigieg. All with insufficient victim points, except perhaps the homosexual. What’s a Dem to do?

Beto's strategy is to pretend to be a Mexican, but that just makes him a laughing stock, even among Mexicans.

Joe Biden was supposedly toying with the idea of picking a VP as soon as his candidacy was announced, in the form of monstrous, race-baiting, failed gubernatorial candidate Stacie Abrams, but that hasn't panned out.

Twenty or thirty years ago, Bernie could have played up his Jewishness for oppressed minority status, but times have changed. Most on the Left now no longer see Jews as victims of white racists, but rather as yet another white and affluent ethnic group that oppresses "people of color."

[minnesota_bound]

So obama what did Biden accomplish during the 8 years working with you?

obama: ahh stutter ah... me ah stutter

[Dr. Zzyzx]

I think the fear that Biden would succeed Obama as president if Obama should die in office was probably the reason there were no significant threats to Obama’s life during his presidency. Biden was Barack’s life insurance policy.

[lodi90]

Trump pushing aside Jeb (and pinch-hitter Rubio) was practically a one-time anomaly.

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President Trump exposing the GOP primary system and Never Trumpism has changed the GOP forever. Should another Romneyesque progressive corportist be nominated by the GOP millions of conservatives will simply “vote for their wife” or just not vote in the general. What’s good for the goose...

[freebird5850]

Barry votes “present” once again.

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You seem to think that primaries are decided from the bottom up. I'm convinced that in most cases they're decided from the top down: i.e. the DNC and RNC anoint a candidate of choice and perhaps an acceptable pinch hitter, and then pull all the stops to make sure those candidates win - money, press coverage, ads etc.

There are two different situations. One is where there is a clear front runner. It's a vice president, a former vice president, or the person who came in second in the last nominating race. It's the person whose "turn" it is, and people who want to back a winner get on board.

It was like that with Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Mondale, Humphrey, and with Romney, McCain, Bush, and Nixon. They had the edge over the other candidates and got early support. Sometimes the heir apparent can get knocked out by an upstart. Trump did that. Sometimes the front runner knocks himself out: Gary Hart, Ed Muskie.

The other situation is when there is an open race with no clear front-runners, or when some group tries to automatically create a front-runner. Carter and Clinton got a big boost from being on the cover of Time Magazine. Somebody picked them as the designated candidates. For Bill Clinton it was the Democratic Leadership council. Maybe not literally picked, but he was their boy. In a similar way Obama was picked by Harry Reid and maybe others as an alternative to Hillary Clinton.

But this time, with 20 candidates and most of them putting their feet in their mouths every week, I don't see any strong and coherent group picking a candidate and foisting him or her on the party. Nobody really stands out as a good bet. And even if some group was impressed by Beto or Buttigieg or Kamala, there are other Democrats who would be more impressed by Booker or Warren or Biden. Maybe by the end of the year, it will be clear who the designated candidate will be.