Democratic Candidates who made the cut for CNN's debates
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/2020-democratic-candidates-cnn-d...
The debate will be held over two nights in Detroit on July 30 and 31 at 8 p.m. ET.
1) Colorado senator Michael Bennet
2) Former vice-president Joe Biden
3) New Jersey senator Cory Booker
4) Montana governor Steve Bullock
5) South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg
6) Former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro
7) New York mayor Bill de Blasio
8) Former Maryland representative John Delaney
9) Hawaii representative Tulsi Gabbard
10) New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand
11) California senator Kamala Harris
12) Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper
13) Washington governor Jay Inslee
14) Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar
15) Former Texas representative Beto O’Rourke
16) Ohio representative Tim Ryan
17) Vermont senator Bernie Sanders
18) Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren
19) Author Marianne Williamson
20) Businessman Andrew Yang
Comments
Too many, it's a cattle call.
Intended to drown out Bernie and Tulsi.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
wow....NPR lists them in an interesting way
as we see above, Bennett, Biden, Booker....it's all alphabetical, ending with Yang.
but this NPR list of 14 who qualified on both counts starts off thusly:
Note that once it gets past Harris it reverts to alphabetical order. So it's a deliberate placement of Harris into an early portion of the list. Somebody wants her to be the nominee. At the DNC? NPR?
@Shahryar I know so many "good
I know so many "good Democrats" who still rely on NPR news. They think I've gone down a rabbit hole of cynicism.
Lurking in the wings is Hillary, like some terrifying bat hanging by her feet in a cavern below the DNC. A bat with theropod instincts. -- Fred Reed https://tinyurl.com/vgvuhcl
Is it Nice Polite Republicans
Or National Petroleum Radio?
It's actually both...
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
EDITED: 4, maybe 5
out of twenty who are capable of being honest.
I don't really know Marianne Williamson.
Jay Inslee and Bill de Blasio were people I used to like, somewhat, especially Inslee, before we descended into total fascism. Once you descend into fascism, people's character traits play out differently. The cost of being virtuous goes up and that puts stress on people's characters and many of them cease to be reliable.
Tulsi and Bernie would like to be honest and are trying to be, most of the time.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Good catch, btw.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
i'd read an email from mike gravel
as though he'd qualified. signed,
baffled in the 4-corners
Yeah,
I noticed that earlier Wendy, did a search on "Gravel dem debates" and up popped an article explaining that there are TWO criteria for getting on the debate stage -- one being number of donors and the other being one's standing in the polls. The Gravel team said that he had not been included in many of the polls they're basing it on, which is unfair (typical DNC), so his legal team will be discussing it with the DNC.
When I saw your comment I did the same search and didn't find the article. My search engine is probably about as honest as the DNC. Leaving him off the polls pretty much guarantees that he can't make the 2nd criteria. I hope his attorneys can get him into the 2nd debate.
Lurking in the wings is Hillary, like some terrifying bat hanging by her feet in a cavern below the DNC. A bat with theropod instincts. -- Fred Reed https://tinyurl.com/vgvuhcl
thanks for the 411, amiga.
wow, what shite. wish i could remember how the D coup against the league of women voters being in charge of the 'debates' went, but...keep 'em out, , and especially third parties, have pre-arranged Qs for each candiate seem to have been the incentive. what a fine party it is!
i suppose mike's twitter account have more; i'll look when (if?) i have the time. ; )
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-08-me-2852-story.html
thanks, amigo.
she also called them 'joint press conferences', which is how i've seen any i'd even bothered to watch a number of years ago; as in "debates" in quotation marks.
but on twitter, and i wish it were on war and imperialism, but like howie hawkins, this is the must-need flavor of the day, i guess:
So Mike Gravel has a plan!
BFD. Look what good having a plan did for Bernie. Pardon me, while I sneeze...ah...ah...ah..horseshit.
Mike Gravel is king of Crocodiles; but, aligators may not know.
dunno about 'bernie's
plan' that you've referenced, but i'd told @laurel i'd check on mike's twitter feed to try to corroborate what she'd found. i'm pretty sure that at the start he'd said he wasn't in this to actually win, but just wanted to be on the stage to espouse his anti-imperialist and direct democracy messages, but later he'd said 'i'm in it to win'. no, not a snowball's chance in hell, but campaigning is where one can leave one's mark, no?
but by my reckoning, his peace campaign is stronger than green socialist howie hawkins' by now, although i do like klein's 'socialize these sectors' on his platform.
sorry to be so late; RL here went pretty much tits-up about mid-day yesterday. but i'm not getting your 'horsehit' sneeze. he just said they were 'considering', didn't he? if it weren't televised, who would agree to join with him, anyhoo? but lord, some of the names running i've never even heard of, i swear.
I don't have anything against Gravel.
It's pretty clear he's not actually expecting to become President, but rather is using a presidential campaign as a way of telling the truth in public.
That's how hard it's gotten to tell the truth in public.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Thank goodness so many of them made it!
[video:https://youtu.be/u7ekAQ_Plxk?t=41]
And that was George Raft yuckin' it up with Mae
But "looks have nothing to do with it".
There's something really repulsive
about the idea of "making the cut" for the presidential debates.
Bet the League of Women's Voters is glad they walked away in 1988.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver