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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The posters having tantrums about the DNC need to grow up, and give it a rest.
The DNC didn’t do this.
This is all on  Joe and Jill Biden.
No one was going to challenge the sitting president. Literally you are asking dems to relinquish the only advantage going into an election where both parties are known entities: which is the power of the bully pulpit. 
No democrats was going to run against the sitting president and it’s childish, ignorant wish casting to pretend it was ever an option.[/quote]

Biden said he will serve only one term when he was campaigning in 2020.[/quote]

Biden lied. [/quote]

To be perfectly accurate, he never actually said he would be a one-term president but he implied it or let it be assumed by others. So, no, he didn't lie, but he didn't correct the widespread misconception (which I, among others, fell for) either. Politicians are slippery that way.

"So Biden never explicitly made a one-term promise during the campaign, but he certainly implied it with the language of “transition.” You don’t typically think of eight years in office as a “transition.” And he had surrogates talking to their pals in the press planting the seeds of a single term, for a Democratic electorate that never saw Biden as their first choice, just as an acceptable consensus pick to take out the hated incumbent."
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4718993-did-biden-break-his-one-term-pledge/[/quote]
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He would have stepped aside if there was one electable candidate OR if Trump wasnt running. [/b]

But even now, people trash around with candidates to replace him. There is no one who wants the job. America won't elect a woman, it won't elect a gay man, it won't elect a black man again especially one like Booker -- the swing states are still looking for "Presidential", ie white male.

We can take another swing at progress candidates back when the other side puts up candidates like McCain and Romney who would have been fine presidents.  [/quote]

Oh come off it.  Electable candidate? You get electable candidates by allowing people to BE candidates. Biden, as the elder statesmen he is (or wants to be), should have stepped aside and insisted on a primary season like there was no incumbent. And he should have pushed for the agreement of other elderly people like Sanders and Warren that they would sit this one out. Imagine what a competitive primary season with the outcome being a young ticket would look like against Trump. Instead we've got a tired old man and a crazy old man. I'm still voting for Biden but the DNC needs its own post mortem, starting with its nearly dead of old age leadership.[/quote]

The problem for the democratic party is that the smart educated white men of the party have WAY better options in tech and business.  Going into politics has say less upside. So you get the edge candidates, POC and other minorities where becoming a politician is actively encouraged and a step up from where you grew up. Even the poor white guy from Arkansas knows he can go into sales or similar and have a way better life, and not live in fear that flirting with a cute girl will end his career and ruin his life. [/quote]

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