Posted on 04/16/2021 6:32:57 AM PDT by DoodleBob
In a conversation for Bill Clinton’s iHeart podcast Why Am I Telling You This?, the former president and Shonda Rhimes... got to talking about the polarized environment that has greeted the early days of Joe Biden’s presidency and the prospects of bipartisanship.
As Rhimes lamented that a problem is that the news “stopped being the news and started being a certain form of entertainment, almost like just more reality television,” Clinton suggested that Biden has handled the hyper partisan environment well.
“I think Biden has been almost pitch perfect in what he’s said and done,” Clinton said. “I think the problem he has is, first of all, the last election was very close. And I think that it’s now a performance art for the Democrats. If we can produce positive results that cross those divides by lifting everybody, giving everybody a chance, then we have a chance to psychologically change. It’s very hard to change the political standoff that exists today, because the Republicans believe it’s working for them, and that’s the big challenge.”
Clinton said that he thinks Biden has “made good decisions economically and good decisions on the staff and good decisions to have an inclusive policy economically and socially and politically. And you just have to keep reaching out to the Republicans, and at the moment they believe they have more to gain by making a deal than just saying no all the time, then he should show a little leg too, and they can maybe do something. But he’s been doing this a long time and he’s knows that they think they’re winning, even though he won, and even though he’s popular. So he can only get back to bipartisanship when they’re willing to do it.”
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They are forever talking about polarization, when the left is the most vindictive ideologically-bound vicious group as a whole. So who causes the polarization?!
Bill must also have Dementia
These are great.
Next election Joe will get 110% of the vote.
Joe was only in the last election because the Dems knew they could never steal the election for Harris
Clinton on the nose candy again.
“Biden pitch perfect”
What’s Bill Clinton smoking?
I didn’t believe Bill Clinton could say something positive about another Democrat.
Billy and Hillary are too stupid to realized they have been kicked to the curb.
CA has gotten all they want of the Clinton Family.
By saying this for Biden, it seems to me that Bill Clinton has reduced his own already fragile image.
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