Democrat presidential debate official thread

Quid Pro Joe? Have you been watching the hearings at all? Quid Pro Trump would be a compliment instead lyin Extortion Trump. At least the world knows the level of corruptness of trump and how he has invested the Republican party. He can't lie his way out this time.

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

Quid Pro Joe on domestic violence: ..."And so we have to just change the culture, period, and keep punching at it, and punching at it, and punching at it.” LOL!

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/joe-biden-said-to-support-metoo-we-should-keep-punching-at

Conundrum wrote:

You asked why Booker is not doing well in the polls. Why he hadn't connected with voters. Then you list all of his strengths.

I can't speak for other voters but he has turned me off. And he again showed it last night when debating Warren and then Biden.

This might seem harsh to you but he always seems smug, arrogant and phony. The smirk he had when Warren was speaking, doesn't serve him well. His implied laughter at other candidates is a turn off. There are many candidates that I don't like, but they all seem more sincere than Booker.

I will give you that it often seems as if Booker is trying too hard.

I think his empathy is authentic, but he comes across as not being authentic, if that makes sense.

His policies and his age and his charisma are not issues with most.

It seems that some find him off-putting. And that's an important thing for voters.

My wife (who is black) also thinks he is a bit pompous.

I still have reason to favor him over the other candidates for the reasons I laid out for each.

My father just turned 76 and I joked to him how he is still younger a number of the top presidential candidates.

He has an issue with their age and ability to perform constant high energy tasks and attention and their ages.

I hesitate on trying to have an 80 year old president.

I was all in on hoping Biden would join the race four years ago when he was in his early seventies.

Question for the moderates:

If it came down to Warren vs Booker, who would you vote for?

L L wrote:

Question for the moderates:

If it came down to Warren vs Booker, who would you vote for?

Bernie Sanders!

That's easy ,. wrote:

L L wrote:

Question for the moderates:

If it came down to Warren vs Booker, who would you vote for?

Bernie Sanders!

Do you really consider Warren to be a moderate?

L L wrote:

Question for the moderates:

If it came down to Warren vs Booker, who would you vote for?

I'd have to go with Booker. I'm firmly in the "medicare for all who want it" camp.

moanswers wrote:

L L wrote:

Question for the moderates:

If it came down to Warren vs Booker, who would you vote for?

I'd have to go with Booker. I'm firmly in the "medicare for all who want it" camp.

Booker wants to legalize Marijuana, NO WAY, EVEN President Dwight D. Eisenhower would have been against that.

I actually think that Warren has a better chance at passing "medicare for all who want it" than the others.

She'll take that as a compromise. The others are going with the compromise up front and the Republicans will not easily give the public option a go if Dems start with that.

It's dumb, but it's like the sticker price of a car. They don't list it for what they will accept, but they take a shot at the larger price and negotiate down.

Her wealth tax has no shot either but she may move the needle more on getting new tax revenues from wealthier people and entities.

You look at Obama's modest proposals and Republicans fought each one tooth and nail.

Maybe going far left and settling in the middle could work better at getting a public option passed, seeing that some Republican senators will have to come along.

Or maybe nothing new will get passed that needs any bipartisan support. I can see that.

What a question wrote:

Do you really consider Warren to be a moderate?

That depends on your definition of a moderate.

If you mean does she represent the majority of working class Americans, then no, she is not a moderate.

If you mean does she represent the richest 1 percent, then yes she's a moderate.

She is admittedly a right wing capitalist, and primarily represents the rich upper class.

Thus, her policies are quite similar to D. Trump's, and to most of the other Democratic candidates.

HippieHater wrote:

... moron having a melt down ...

According to you, some ignorant rich greedy a--hole who doesn't pay any taxes.

The story of the corporate Citizens United.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5kHACjrdEY&feature=emb_title

Workers vs billionaires wrote:

https://preview.redd.it/kok1905qje041.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=163af1506245bee6f7e372866a97546f224112b6

HARD WORK PAYS OFF.

douglas burke wrote:

HARD WORK PAYS OFF.

Yes it does. I remember busting my ass in high school while other kids screwed off. I got into a good college, they didn't go at all. I'm 48 years old and two years away from a comfortable retirement. They have zero savings. I'm supposed to feel sorry for them?

dunes runner wrote:

What a question wrote:

Do you really consider Warren to be a moderate?

That depends on your definition of a moderate.

If you mean does she represent the majority of working class Americans, then no, she is not a moderate.

If you mean does she represent the richest 1 percent, then yes she's a moderate.

She is admittedly a right wing capitalist, and primarily represents the rich upper class.

Thus, her policies are quite similar to D. Trump's, and to most of the other Democratic candidates.

I have no idea what point you are trying to make, but you are welcome to your opinion

Regardless, Warren is not a moderate.

What a question wrote:

Warren is not a moderate.

Like he said, that depends on your definition of a moderate

Don't be so dense. wrote:

What a question wrote:

Warren is not a moderate.

Like he said, that depends on your definition of a moderate

no, every Democrat is about as right wing as anyone can get. The Republicans are merely right wing in different ways.

In particular the Dems are the bloodthirsty warmongers, foreigner-haters, moral superiorists, speech-suppressors, and secret-police-lovers of the current political era. This is as fundamental a shift as the southern demographic flip in the 1960's.