Well it was Charles Blow who said he was not passionate and we must remember that things look very different in America when you’re Black. I was very disappointed jn Obama. He had a golden opportunity and blew it with his unconscious need to placate the forces of reaction. Biden learned a lesson and is much better. But the earth is burning and he could do much better. Yesterday I read that we are allowing Gas companies to build dozens of new installations to lock in shipments to Europe to prevent it going no-carbon. Where is the bully pulpit? Kerry? Private equities are destroying our health care system— where’s the government response. All these matters should be blasting from the Cabinet regardless of immediate success to prepare ground s for 2024. Instead Biden is picketing right. As to Hochul badly misjudging that is not an excuse—that’s called big failure as a politician . Because she’s a state hack who couldn’t care less about Congress only her own fiefdom. And it’s a reason to fire the state committee head not protect him. Also she’s blocking progressive decisions and made that cray stand in favor of a conservative anti-abortion judge.
This calm calling out of malarkey sure does seem to apply to older voters but not to young ones. Articles about young voters (see Charles Blow’s recent column) suggest Biden’s unwillingness to put up a passionate fight for what they care about could cause large numbers to stay home. It doesn’t apply to people who didn’t see him fight and declaim from the bully pulpit to keep extra food supplements and child care credit Introduced in pandemic. I think your position might reflect the suburban bias of the Democratic consultants. Don’t forget how many seats Hochul lost us with her complacency and lack of fervor.
Here's why I don't think that will happen: I think the Democratic Congress will be out there lighting a fire under the youth vote. And it simply wouldn't be authentic for Biden to be passionate about things he can't deliver with. Republican House. Give him a second term and a Democratic congrss, and sky's the limit.
I quite disagree. See todays article on Black disappointment with Biden. These are the folks that gave him the nomination. Equally important the idea that we can get voters our for the down ballot contests who are unenthused about the top of the ticket seems a very wishful thinking. It’s not how our system is built. That’s why Hochul lost us the 4-5 crucial seats (along with gerrymandering). The President’s job is to be a leader and advocate for the future and to fulfill that it is not enough to say Let’s finish the job. He would have to be very clear publicly with these constituencies that he wants to fight with them (like FDR did). There’s no progress in eg private prisons. And of course you can show passion for things you can’t deliver. In fact that’s how you create support for them. Liberals who think they are so realistic about the possible might do better to take in what made Bernie overwhelmingly popular as a leader among the young instead of dismissing his success.
But Hochul, as all political operatives said afterwards, badly misjudged what it would take to win a statewide campaign. Her GOTV operation *began* about three weeks before the election. It's probably more accurate to say that Zeldin out-organized Hochul and won those seats.
It's a mistake to project the NY situation on the nation. The Biden campaign will out-hustle a GOP that is extremely divided, and that won't be able to persuade campaign networks to transfer to the candidate who takes the nomination.
So some Black voters are disappointed in Biden, some youth voters aer disappointed: that was true of Obama in 2012 too, and frankly, Biden has done far more to help everyone than Obama did in his first term.
I mean, I also just disagree that Biden is not passionate. I really don't see that at all.
If that is their opinion, then youth march in peculiar lockstep with the generations of American voters before them who can't seem to grasp how excruciatingly much time it takes to fix the horrible damage that bad politicians do to the least flashy and (to the most people) most boring parts of our government, like the State Department, for example, which was basically dismantled by the previous administration. How to sell that message? I don't know. Most of governing is not "fervor", it's just hard, boring work.
Well it was Charles Blow who said he was not passionate and we must remember that things look very different in America when you’re Black. I was very disappointed jn Obama. He had a golden opportunity and blew it with his unconscious need to placate the forces of reaction. Biden learned a lesson and is much better. But the earth is burning and he could do much better. Yesterday I read that we are allowing Gas companies to build dozens of new installations to lock in shipments to Europe to prevent it going no-carbon. Where is the bully pulpit? Kerry? Private equities are destroying our health care system— where’s the government response. All these matters should be blasting from the Cabinet regardless of immediate success to prepare ground s for 2024. Instead Biden is picketing right. As to Hochul badly misjudging that is not an excuse—that’s called big failure as a politician . Because she’s a state hack who couldn’t care less about Congress only her own fiefdom. And it’s a reason to fire the state committee head not protect him. Also she’s blocking progressive decisions and made that cray stand in favor of a conservative anti-abortion judge.
You say it so well. Hope given.
Thank you! And let's turn Tennessee purple!
This calm calling out of malarkey sure does seem to apply to older voters but not to young ones. Articles about young voters (see Charles Blow’s recent column) suggest Biden’s unwillingness to put up a passionate fight for what they care about could cause large numbers to stay home. It doesn’t apply to people who didn’t see him fight and declaim from the bully pulpit to keep extra food supplements and child care credit Introduced in pandemic. I think your position might reflect the suburban bias of the Democratic consultants. Don’t forget how many seats Hochul lost us with her complacency and lack of fervor.
Here's why I don't think that will happen: I think the Democratic Congress will be out there lighting a fire under the youth vote. And it simply wouldn't be authentic for Biden to be passionate about things he can't deliver with. Republican House. Give him a second term and a Democratic congrss, and sky's the limit.
I quite disagree. See todays article on Black disappointment with Biden. These are the folks that gave him the nomination. Equally important the idea that we can get voters our for the down ballot contests who are unenthused about the top of the ticket seems a very wishful thinking. It’s not how our system is built. That’s why Hochul lost us the 4-5 crucial seats (along with gerrymandering). The President’s job is to be a leader and advocate for the future and to fulfill that it is not enough to say Let’s finish the job. He would have to be very clear publicly with these constituencies that he wants to fight with them (like FDR did). There’s no progress in eg private prisons. And of course you can show passion for things you can’t deliver. In fact that’s how you create support for them. Liberals who think they are so realistic about the possible might do better to take in what made Bernie overwhelmingly popular as a leader among the young instead of dismissing his success.
But Hochul, as all political operatives said afterwards, badly misjudged what it would take to win a statewide campaign. Her GOTV operation *began* about three weeks before the election. It's probably more accurate to say that Zeldin out-organized Hochul and won those seats.
It's a mistake to project the NY situation on the nation. The Biden campaign will out-hustle a GOP that is extremely divided, and that won't be able to persuade campaign networks to transfer to the candidate who takes the nomination.
So some Black voters are disappointed in Biden, some youth voters aer disappointed: that was true of Obama in 2012 too, and frankly, Biden has done far more to help everyone than Obama did in his first term.
I mean, I also just disagree that Biden is not passionate. I really don't see that at all.
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If that is their opinion, then youth march in peculiar lockstep with the generations of American voters before them who can't seem to grasp how excruciatingly much time it takes to fix the horrible damage that bad politicians do to the least flashy and (to the most people) most boring parts of our government, like the State Department, for example, which was basically dismantled by the previous administration. How to sell that message? I don't know. Most of governing is not "fervor", it's just hard, boring work.