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Why Joe Biden Has His Eye on Karen Bass
The Atlantic ^ | July 13, 2020 | Edward-Isaac Dovere

Posted on 07/13/2020 8:04:59 AM PDT by ripnbang

"The first time Representative Karen Bass heard Joe Biden talk about the car crash that killed his wife and infant daughter, she dropped into her chair, overwhelmed.

It was 2008, and Bass was watching the Democratic National Convention video introducing Biden as the party’s vice-presidential nominee. Less than two years earlier, Bass’s daughter and son-in-law had died in a car crash on the 405. Bass, then in her 50s, had thrown herself into her job as the speaker of the California assembly and hoped to get past the pain. But there was Biden, 36 years after the tragedy that shattered his family, still talking about the magnitude of his loss. “I had this moment,” Bass told me, “where I had to come to grips with the fact that losing my daughter and son-in-law was always going to be a part of the narrative of who I am.”

Four years later, as Biden and Barack Obama were being reelected, Bass won a seat in the House, representing parts of Los Angeles. But she didn’t tell Biden what he’d meant to her until this March, when she introduced him at a Super Tuesday chicken-and-waffles event. “We both just shared that you learn how to get up in the morning,” she told me. “You learn how to live, but your life is fundamentally changed, dramatically changed......”

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; election
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To: sanjuanbob
Al Franken?

Has anyone seen Al and Karen in the same room at the same time?

41 posted on 07/13/2020 8:56:01 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: bkopto

42 posted on 07/13/2020 8:59:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ripnbang

Because her hair smells good?


43 posted on 07/13/2020 9:03:57 AM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: ripnbang
How long can Biden ride this vice-presidential decision indecision?


44 posted on 07/13/2020 9:06:57 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: ripnbang

Do these libs realize how creepy their headlines are? Or do they live in fantasy land where they ignore his obvious creepiness, his corruption, and dementia that they rest of the country sees?


45 posted on 07/13/2020 9:26:49 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: lerker

I feel you are correct, all the rest is smoke.


46 posted on 07/13/2020 9:30:10 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: ripnbang

Florida Dems not supporting Karen Bass.

https://therealcuba.com/?p=3331


47 posted on 07/13/2020 9:38:46 AM PDT by Atlantan
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To: ripnbang

Biden casting for Bass. He is working on the best lure.


48 posted on 07/13/2020 9:44:52 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: ripnbang

She was a dud as a leader in that California thing called a Legislature. No one even knows who she is much less who she was.


49 posted on 07/13/2020 9:48:03 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: cornfedcowboy

One Joe and Rice gets the nomination under their belt, they will howl if Barr names them as participants in any investigation.


50 posted on 07/13/2020 10:06:34 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: ripnbang

Of all the fishes in the sea, I’d rather be a bass And then I’d take my little girl friend fish and screw her in her ......


51 posted on 07/13/2020 10:25:53 AM PDT by Rannug (When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.l)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
:::::Definitely guilty.:::::

She is as handsome as Michael Obama.

52 posted on 07/13/2020 10:46:28 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: CaptainK

...I dunno.... wasn’t she the one who was trotted out
on various Sunday morning talk shows and who tried to
get us to believe the killings in Benghazi were the
result of some dips**t video that no one had ever seen?
I think the Trump camp would capitalize on her stupid
comments to no end.... the problem with Mz. Bass as I
see it is that no one on earth even knows who she is...no
name recognition at all with the public......but what
do I know...? I’m just a conservative old white male
who sees this country going to hell in a handbasket......


53 posted on 07/13/2020 10:59:30 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: TokarevM57

The press will deem her untouchable for criticism if she gets the nod.

Trump will have to fight those kinds of headwinds.


54 posted on 07/13/2020 11:01:35 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: central_va

So another Stacy Abrams tank.


55 posted on 07/13/2020 11:16:48 AM PDT by gbaker
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To: lerker

I feel like it is going to be Susan Rice since they need to shield her from the FISA abuse mess.//

Barr seems to be doing that quite well.


56 posted on 07/13/2020 11:19:31 AM PDT by gbaker
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To: central_va
The Communist Party of the USA invariably names a black woman to be the Vice Presidential nominee.

Funny.

57 posted on 07/13/2020 11:38:17 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Wiser now
That can't be correct.

I bet her name's actually Karena.

58 posted on 07/13/2020 1:01:24 PM PDT by skimbell
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