WaPo : Why Joe Biden is the antidote to this virus

[Celerity]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/13/why-joe-biden-is-antidote-this-virus/

Joe Biden isn’t inspiring. He fluttered some hearts when he first ran in 1987, but he is far less inspirational now, at 77, than he was in his prime. That’s part of the reason, despite his far-above-the-rest résumé, that Biden’s candidacy stumbled before it succeeded. Democrats were looking for something new and improved before they recognized it was time to settle for Biden.

This is all fine — better than fine, actually. If 1964 was a time for choosing, as Ronald Reagan put it when he went on TV to argue for Barry Goldwater, 2020 is a time for settling, in the multiple senses of that word. It is a time for settling on a candidate whom a broad majority of Democrats, and Americans, can agree. It’s a time for settling the country down, after three-plus years of ugliness and the divisiveness that both preceded and created the Trump phenomenon. It is a time for settling for Biden.

Biden is candidate as comfort food, calming and familiar. After flirtations with the new (Pete Buttigieg), the provocative (Bernie Sanders) and the planner (Elizabeth Warren), Biden is, it turns out, the one we’ve been waiting for. He is not the candidate, and would not be the president, of hope and change; he is the avatar of normalcy.

This was, even before the coronavirus, Biden’s fundamental argument: that his would be a restoration presidency — of American values, of America’s place in the world. And, perhaps even more, of a president who does not whip through three White House chiefs of staff and three national security advisers (Trump is on his fourth, in both cases); who does not tweet and attack incessantly; who can be counted on, if not for the “bold, persistent experimentation” of an FDR, then at least for capable governance. Biden’s campaign this summer and fall will not be a battle for adopting Medicare-for-all. It will be, as he said in announcing his candidacy, a “battle for the soul of this nation,” a rejection of an administration he described as “an aberrant moment in time.”

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[showblue22]

1. Biden is loved by many on the left and the right.

Biden is a good man, no one can dispute that and if they do.. no one believes it. Joe is decency, love, and competence.

[Thekaspervote]

3. Yes...Biden is known and trusted nation wide by the base of our party, the AA voter...thank you!

[showblue22]

5. and the world.

[No Vested Interest]

2. I have confidence thaat Joe Biden will surround himself with capable people,

smart enough to begin the huge job of putting our government and our nation back together.

And his smart, lovely wife Jill will be a great and supportive First Lady.

[pazzyanne]

4. "...Joe Biden will surround himself with capable people..."

My number one reason for supporting him! I am sick and tired of incompetence running this nation.

[onetexan]

10. exactly, Joe Biden is the familiar, tried and true candidate

Whether you like him or not, there's no denying he is the supremely competent, experienced, decent leader we need at this time in nation's history. No other candidate has that level of experience and trust. We have a bunch of idiots running the government in slipshod fashion. We need his steady and firm leadership to restore normalcy.

[dansolo]

17. That is one of the things that terrifies me about Bernie

Bernie is just like Trump in one significant way - he surrounds himself by sycophants who's main attribute is loyalty to him. I don't see Bernie bringing in capable people to staff the government because for him it is ideology and loyalty over everything else.

[Cha]

6. It's so funny to me that a lot of articles have

to let us know that they think "Joe isn't inspiring.. " he Inspired voters enough to get them to them pols in SC and the two Super Tuesdays.

And, Democracy inspirers the hell out me. I'm not "settling for Joe Biden".. he was my candidate from the very beginning.. I saw something there.

Good article, though.. Thank you, Celerity

[True Blue American]

11. I find Joe

Very inspiring, but what do I know? Hmm? Oh, yes I choose men with his calm, trustworthy, reliable personality in my own life!

Works for me!

[Cha]

12. We know plenty, TBA.. this is what

we do.. years of experience.

[True Blue American]

14. :)

[Skittles]

7. sorry, no

he's certainly NOT the one I've been waiting for.......it was more the absolute disgust with Trump that drove the vote, not any excitement for Biden

[showblue22]

8. Biden is a good, decent man with morals.

He is beloved by many. Negative attacks on him also drove people to the polls. It energized his base to stand in line hours upon hours to vote.

[Skittles]

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I, and many others, were energized by UTTER DISGUST for Trump. *PERIOD*

[True Blue American]

13. Then you do not

Understand real, honest, secure, reliable men.

Joe is the one I have been praying for ever since the Con man managed to make his way into the WhiteHouse!

[Skittles]

15. LOLOL

I understand Joe *VERY* well

[SunSeeker]

9. He's the antidote to this whole shitshow!

[question everything]

18. K&R