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TimmyquigleeAlex Pareene
10/21/15 5:25pm
Hillary is going to beat Bernie Sanders for the simple fact that most Americans don’t really want to see that much change. Tweak, yes. Radical change, no.

Hillary’s views mirror my own in many ways: A bit progressive, but not too much. Neocon light. Some social spending, but not at the expense of capitalism.

Biden would have been okay, but Bernie would be a fucking disaster.
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  Fleet Admiral JoshTimmyquiglee
  10/21/15 5:36pm
  Then there is that whole problem that if somehow Bernie Sanders somehow got elected (which is probably less likely than half of the GOP slate getting elected, and that’s saying something), He’ll not only have the entire GOP, but most of his own party bucking his policies. His ability to do anything he says he wants to do would be zero.
  
  And then when he compromises he’ll just be another sell-out corporate dem to the people who voted for him (like Obama largely has been accused of).
  
  In a way the republicans have it easier in that to do a lot of the stuff they want to do (eg, gut government spending) the only thing they need to is nothing and just demand that Dems in congress compromise until they send a budget they will sign which guts everything or else the government gets shutdown (so really it’s a win-win).
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  TimmyquigleeFleet Admiral Josh
  10/21/15 5:38pm
  Exactly right. If we were a small, self sustaining island, I’d probably vote for Sanders. But we’re simply not ever going to have the “political revolution” Sanders is talking about.
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LongSnakeAlex Pareene
10/21/15 5:22pm
It’s a shame that the democratic primary consists of conservatives like Clinton, (formerly)Webb and Chaffee, one real progressive and whatever a “Martin o malley” is
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  FeelingluckypunkLongSnake
  10/21/15 5:25pm
  C’mon, it's Hillarys turn.
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  LongSnakeFeelingluckypunk
  10/21/15 5:27pm
  Lol, My bad, I forgot.
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nocturnalkittyAlex Pareene
10/21/15 5:26pm
I think he should do what he said he would do if he were president, find a cure for cancer. Especially, brain cancer which does not get much attention.
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  StickToSproutsnocturnalkitty
  10/21/15 5:30pm
  Haven’t we pretty much reached medical/scientific consensus that there is no “cure for cancer” forthcoming? That’s an honest question.
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  nocturnalkittyStickToSprouts
  10/21/15 5:37pm
  Lots of people are working towards that goal song would say we have no reached that point.
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caekislove-caekingitupAlex Pareene
10/21/15 5:27pm
Thank you. When I heard people rooting for Biden to join the race because Clinton was “too far to the right”, I was always like WTF?
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Dashiell HammletAlex Pareene
10/21/15 5:20pm
I was thinking mostly of the last line of Clue:

“I’m going to go home, and sleep with my wife.”
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flamingolingoAlex Pareene
10/21/15 6:16pm
Biden also has a mixed record on women’s rights. He’s personally pro-life and has voted for some dodgy legislation regulating abortion rights. He also was fucking terrible during the Clarence Thomas hearings. He owes Anita Hill an apology.
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  Kenhe Loginflamingolingo
  10/21/15 7:34pm
  True, dude caved.
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absolut-alcoholicAlex Pareene
10/21/15 5:33pm
I would think he’d want to relax with a plumb diplomatic posting? Somewhere sunny, away from the Middle East Crisis, the European Refugee Crisis, any other potential ‘Crisis’.

How about Ambassador to Australia?
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  Mrs.Choate PFLAG Grandmaabsolut-alcoholic
  10/21/15 7:49pm
  I was going to suggest Luxembourg. He could get into a lot more trouble in Australia. Murdoch would have tabloid images of Ambassador Biden motor boating his face between the ample breasts of a biker chick in a pub in Perth within days of his arrival.
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BruinKidAlex Pareene
10/21/15 6:30pm
Here’s the rub. Had you or most Gawker readers been in Congress in 1994, there’s a decent chance you would’ve voted for the crime bill. Like most pieces of major legislation, it had good and bad pieces to it. The famous Violence Against Women Act? Guess what, part of the crime bill! The assault weapons ban that lasted for 10 years? Part of the crime bill. The National Domestic Violence Hotline? Created in the crime bill. Driver’s Privacy Protection Act to prevent the psycho pro-lifers from using DMV records to stalk abortion providers and patients? Crime bill.

It’s easy in hindsight to talk about the effects it had years later. There’s a reason even the former head of the NAACP, Kweisi Mfume, voted for the crime bill. James Clyburn voted for it. Nancy Pelosi voted for it. Heck, Bernie Sanders voted for it.

In the House, only 25% of Republicans voted for the crime bill, while 73% of Democrats did. People like Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay and James Inhofe didn’t vote against it because they didn’t like the prison provisions. Guess which provisions they objected to.

Now, the bankruptcy bill and the other stuff, by all means, go to town on Biden for those. But please stop rewriting history about the crime bill and what was in it. Because it’s much more complicated and nuanced than a lot of people realize.
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ArkAlex Pareene
10/21/15 7:53pm

Joe Biden just wants time to drink Bud and work on his bitchin’ Trans Am.
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Kenhe LoginAlex Pareene
10/21/15 7:42pm
I would like to see him drive around the country in a cool car solving and preventing crime.
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  Socraticsilence Kenhe Login
  10/21/15 8:01pm
  A dimly lit hotel bar, an obviously bombed and increasingly desperate man in a rumpled suit shuffle notecards attempting to put into words his support for his best friend’s marriage— in strolls Smilin’ Joe.
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