4) Nothing on rising urban disorder/crime. (Bill Clinton would forcefully defuse this issue. Will Biden?) 5) Too much about how viewers have sinned and need to save their souls (OK, that was just Meacham)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 22, 2020
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TOP 5 PROBLEMS WITH DEM CONVENTION: 1: Too little bread and butter economic policy https://t.co/yGeBA62esY 2) Too base-oriented (whole lot of diversity, not so much there for swing voters in crucial states) 3) Too "vote" oriented (were Dems spooked by their own USPS story)? 1/2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 22, 2020
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Includes a good paragraph on how the US and EU "meddled shamelessly" in Ukraine … [also discussed in the Parrot Room] https://t.co/5NaApCaSjf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 22, 2020
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If politics > truth in the 'profession' of journalism, why do we think the same thing doesn't happen in science? https://t.co/7OOFes94ut
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 22, 2020
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"Between a Blob and a Hard Place": We play 'Blob or not Blob,' worry about Belarus turning into Ukraine II, discuss Christopher Hitchens, Steve Bannon, Leon Wieseltier (again), Jon Voight, Jon Meacham, Isaac Chotiner. Bonus: an embarrassing drug confession https://t.co/XgxpKnFooJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 22, 2020
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"The Democrats campaign as a worker's party, but govern as a Bobo one." Isn't the news that they've dropped the pretense of being a worker's party? Brownstein's noticed: https://t.co/yGeBA62esY https://t.co/niOa1RWh5N
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 22, 2020
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Haley … Ernst …. Stop lowering expectations! https://t.co/nF4pqUFwz2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 22, 2020
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There's a new Parrot Room https://t.co/l3U8xfMUe6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 22, 2020
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Yes. The Dems have moved so far away from their traditional issues that they barely even mention them. Even @RonBrownstein thinks that's not such a clever move. https://t.co/u2pOPjPPY2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 22, 2020
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DEM MESSAGE: Why tell the voters he needs to reach–people who voted for Trump last time in swing states–they are bad and need to save their souls? Don't get it.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 21, 2020
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NO MEAT/POTATOES: Telling-"[Biden adviser says] the issues highlighted…reflect the priorities of the party’s modern base, as the campaign sees it: young people (guns and climate), suburban women (guns and women’s rights), and people of color (racial justice and immigration)" https://t.co/jmCPPSMbdu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 21, 2020
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The New York Times interviewed one of them at the time. https://t.co/K1WQc5asKx https://t.co/dy3QzP0l5p
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 21, 2020
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Also said as little as possible about immigration (and his plans)–another smart move. https://t.co/j5aJH09E9o
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 21, 2020
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Effective speech, I thought, until he hit the Charlottesville Lie.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 21, 2020
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Seems like Bloomberg is talking longer than Biden will.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 21, 2020
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This Beau Biden sounds like a fine candidate.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 21, 2020
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My SOP take so far: Harris pick didn't help Biden. Harris speech didn't help Biden. Whole convention hasn't really helped Biden the way conventions are supposed to. But he has one more day to pull it out (which often happens).
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 20, 2020
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V-creative protest in Belarushttps://t.co/1BO5UcXRza
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 20, 2020
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Trump's campaign does resemble the George H.W. Bush campaign against Bill Clinton, doesn't it. https://t.co/CQDgPAIrJT The attack on Biden as a "socialist" seems especially crude and tone deaf.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 20, 2020
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An even bigger fail, then!https://t.co/e5w0ePwrcY https://t.co/BJcUgdQCQ2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 20, 2020
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They have one more day! https://t.co/s7PkOwRMYX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 20, 2020
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HARRIS CLOSING: "We will tell them, not just how we felt.
We will tell them what we did. "
She had a much better last-line option — "We will tell them how we fought."
Really, speechwriters! https://t.co/gw8Kx3uhbN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 20, 2020
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"Harris was picked because she’s a woman of color. So it’s not really that amazing that she’s a woman of color." https://t.co/3DLkyuTgAv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 20, 2020
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If Harris had just calmly prosecuted the case against Trump, like a good lawyer (like she did a few days ago) it would be winning. Instead, we get the smug bragging. Show don't tell. https://t.co/5dVNnfcouh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 20, 2020
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You're kidding https://t.co/gqIeqTPkUr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 20, 2020
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