The interaction Joe had with that voter in Iowa was just a real, human interaction. He wasn't some MAGA plant. Or a troll sent by another campaign. He was just an Obama voter who likes Warren, Buttigieg, & Yang...and not Joe. And Joe blew it. nypost.com/2019/12/05/man…
We're so used to everything being scripted these days. Every TV news panel is set up with people paid to deliver a particular script. But real human interaction on the campaign trail breaks those scripts by introducing real humans who don't fit the molds we expect.
I mean, f*cking news flash, some guy who isn't on Twitter all day doesn't have all of the facts straight about what happened with Hunter Biden in Ukraine. Why is anyone surprised about that? What he's expressing is this--it looks super fishy and everyone knows it.
How hard would it be for Joe to say "in hindsight I can see that it was inappropriate for my son to take a job in a country where I was engaged in diplomacy. I wouldn't do it again. But every person who's looked into this in good faith has agreed that I did nothing wrong."
"Trump is bringing this up to distract from his own corruption and the corruption of his family. In all of my years of public service, while Trump was lining his pockets by evading taxes, I was never once accused of doing anything corrupt. Now let's move on."
Maybe I'm painfully naive, but, hear me out, maybe voters respect politicians who are just simply honest with them about their past records. Who will actually admit having made a bad decision and having learned from it? Like every human on earth has.
I think it would be ESPECIALLY refreshing this year given that this is the opposite of Trump's M.O. which is to never apologize for anything. What if acknowledging mistakes would be perceived as....gasp...maturity and not weakness? Behaving, ya know, like we teach our kids to be.
I feel for Joe. This whole Hunter story is BS and he's sick of it. But you don't make it go away by responding aggressively and defensively to some 60-something guy with partial information who voted for you in 2016. I mean, these are Joe's people, right? He should know better.
My bad...the guy is 83, not 60-something. Even more in Joe's wheelhouse in that they're the same generation.
