Bloomberg reporter: "Sign of class": Biden the only candidate who listened to all the others

[highplainsdem]

at last night's Wing Ding dinner.


Tweets from Bloomberg's Jennifer Epstein, last night

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VP Biden has been in the audience at the Wing Ding all night listening to other candidates. The seats around him are also reserved for candidates but they’re not sitting in them. Here he is clapping after Sen. Sanders’s speech.

and this morning:

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Sign of class from Biden last night as the front-runner spent two-plus hours listening from the audience to all his opponents speak at the Wing Ding. He was the only candidate who did that.
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Biden was typically self-deprecating, too:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-10/2020-democrats-descend-on-small-iowa-town-hunting-for-support

“You know Donald Trump offers no moral leadership,” former Vice President Joe Biden said. “He has no interest in unifying the country. There’s no evidence that the presidency has awakened his conscience in any conscious way. Instead he’s publicly and unapologetically embraced a political strategy of hate, racism and division.”

Biden and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who were first and second in a poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers released Thursday, took the stage near the end of the event, which kept the crowd in folding chairs and wooden booths through hours of speeches.

”Your patience exceeds your judgment,” Biden said as he took the stage, the final candidate of the night to talk in the historic concert hall.

[CatMor]

1. No surprise ....

Joe Biden has always been a classy man.

[highplainsdem]

18. True. Always.

[Skya Rhen]

2. I am honestly perplexed as to why so many are perplexed that the majority of Americans prefer Joe...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Smile. It's actually a great place to be. The candidate

I like the most just happens to be the most qualified and the one with the best shot at defeating MF45.

[peggysue2]

3. Joe Biden is a class act

And will be a class act President, someone who will lead us from the Wilderness and restore the country's hope in itself. So this respect for his fellow colleagues is not surprising.

[LakeArenal]

4. Saved the Best to last.

Biden is presidentially experienced.

Detractors will say Vice President.

To which I say... what’s the second word in Vice President?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Biden & Obama

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[empedocles]

5. Telling observation - on the others

[betsuni]

6. K&R

[oasis]

7. "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Biden"

[Thekaspervote]

8. It just makes me smile and be proud!! I so hope he is our next president

[hlthe2b]

9. He most certainly is a class act.

Good on ya, Joe.

[Cha]

10. Joe Biden is good at listening, too!

Mahalo, highplainsdem!

[Princetonian]

11. Joe is 100% mensch. Great to see that Joe and I both approve of Bernie. Take that, haters!!!

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[Roy Rolling]

13. In 2019

A politician who inherently does the right thing is a treasure. Well done, Joe Biden. He not only talks the talk, he walks the walk.

[Rebl2]

14. So where were they?

[LakeArenal]

16. Iowa State Fair

[highplainsdem]

17. Clear Lake, where the Wing Ding dinner was held, is over 100 miles from Des Moines and the State

Fair.

I haven't seen anything indicating the candidates made as quick a trip as possible to Clear Lake and as quick a trip as possile back to the state fair.

Haven't heard of anything on their schedules that would have prevented them from listening politely to their fellow candidates, the way Biden did, and applauding them.
.

[nolabear]

19. Interestingly, that made me tear up. I'm so hungry for thoughtfulness.

Curiosity, yes. Public appearances, maybe. But paying attention, being thoughtful whether you agree or not. Treating others, particularly those with whom you disagree, with the respect they deserve.

I know how imperfect we’ve always been, but this touches something fundamental in most people, and right now it’s like water in an all too vast desert.