Biden: I'm 'embarrassed' by the campaign
Source: CNN
By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer
Updated 1:43 PM ET, Thu December 8, 2016
(CNN)This year's presidential contest was a substance-free spectacle, Vice President Joe Biden lamented on Thursday.
"This has been a very tough election. It's been ugly, it's been divisive, it's been coarse, it's been dispiriting. And it was more a battle of personalities than it was a battle of ideas in my view," Biden told a crowd at a post-election forum convened by New York University in Washington. "I find myself embarrassed by the nature of the way in which this campaign was conducted," he said. "So much for the shining city on the hill," he said.
In his talk, Biden characterized the election as devoid of policy or discussions of governance.
"Why wasn't there more discussion?" he asked. "Hillary Clinton was the single most qualified on the fact of it to run for president of the United States that we've had, period. It wasn't that she didn't have all these ideas. She did. But the press, you didn't cover it."
But he said it was understandable the media would forgo stories about each candidate's position on the issues for more salacious reporting. "It wasn't your fault," he said. "When a guy talks about grabbing a woman's private parts, when a guy says some of the incredibly outrageous things that were said, it sucks up all the oxygen in the air."
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The Electoral College is a horrific anachronism and needs to go the way of "3/5th's of a person", "poll taxes", "land owning citizens only having the franchise" and other elements of the original, broken and outdated system in favor of a new system that understands times change, reality evolves and the concept of "small states" needing or receiving undue clout is neither healthy nor required for a functional country.
I am also sick to death of the idea that "urban" voters (ie. "non-whites"
and the Democratic Party need to "understand" the angst of the "rural" voters (ie. "whites" . There is nothing to "understand" when people are unwilling to observe reality, unable to tell fact from fiction and are too petulant to admit that their fears of inadequacy are only cover for their inherently racist hearts and patterns of behavior. You do not change the rotten core of somethings and you do not justify amoral behaviors and beliefs to be polite and well-liked...you speak truth to power and idiots the same.
This country is heading to reckoning and a second Civil War, the outcome of which will not be a unified, single country but three adversarial ones - East, Central and West. The East and the West will have a hard time maintaining a contiguous land border, but perhaps one may emerge along the northern border (the Gulf Coast is a total loss). Personally, I like the West Coast...the people, the geography, the climate (for a few more years anyway), so I will try to relocate there before the war(s) and before I have to apply for entry or asylum from the hell hole that will become the Central States of America. The East Coast is also nice, but more congested and crowded in general...although it would easily be my "plan B" over staying in the CSA long term.
When the fighting starts again, those on the side of rational thought and modernity will have to accept the fact that sometimes the herd must be culled for the good of the many. The population centers and larger urban areas will either join together to combat the forces of idiocy that currently hold sway, or they will fall and become "former population centers"...ultimately, there is not a viable country that includes acquiescing to the whims of the morons that have elected Trump.
RIP America
1776-2016
A most trendy allegation all the cool kids use in place of a substantive answer supported by evidence. But you're very, very cool, so there's that.
Probably caused by toxic exposure in Dumbya's war. And that's how it ends. 
There was no way the vulgar talking yam took PA from Joe from Scranton. Joe could have taken MI and WI, too. The saddest words of tongue and pen are these, "It might have been."
and staved off the disaster that is about to envelop Western civilization?
Apparently, he's not a pussy grabber. 
My opinion is different than yours .......
One thing we do have in common are the issues ....... that is what we should be talking about and working on for the future of the party 
One thing I will agree about the media ..... they should have been bringing up the " fake news " more . It is also good to see some push back from sponsors on fake news . I hope it continues .....
A month later. 
