And this leads to an important point: when candidates were chosen by "the machine" in "smoke filled rooms" instead of primaries they tended to be experienced "machine politicians", people with their own power base in both politics and the federal administration. Since primaries the presidential candidates tend to be inexperienced "looks …
And this leads to an important point: when candidates were chosen by "the machine" in "smoke filled rooms" instead of primaries they tended to be experienced "machine politicians", people with their own power base in both politics and the federal administration. Since primaries the presidential candidates tend to be inexperienced "looks presidential" people without any power base in their own party, never mind experience or a power based in the federal administration, and they tend to be more ex-governors than ex-senators or ex-representatives. People like J Carter or R Reagan, or more recently BH Obama (or B Clinton or GW Bush) who are pretty much PR figures. GH Bush had his own power base in government, but not in politics. That's why "machine" people like Cheney or Rumsfeld had so much influence.
J Biden looks like a partial exception, for he has a long experience in politics and in part in the federal administration, but he has no faction of his own, he has always been a lightweight, and is so obviously currently just fronting for the "New Democrat" faction just like B Clinton and BH Obama did.
"J Biden looks like a partial exception, for he has a long experience in politics and in part in the federal administration, but he has no faction of his own, he has always been a lightweight"
I still don't know WTF the actual puppet masters think they are achieving with Biden; to me he looks incredibly, obviously weak.
I'm reaching Philip K. Dick levels of paranoia here. Either the people in charge are inept fools scrambling for a temporary handhold at the edge of a cliff, or they are secret geniuses playing nth-dimensional chess. I don't see a middle-of-the-road explanation.
And this leads to an important point: when candidates were chosen by "the machine" in "smoke filled rooms" instead of primaries they tended to be experienced "machine politicians", people with their own power base in both politics and the federal administration. Since primaries the presidential candidates tend to be inexperienced "looks presidential" people without any power base in their own party, never mind experience or a power based in the federal administration, and they tend to be more ex-governors than ex-senators or ex-representatives. People like J Carter or R Reagan, or more recently BH Obama (or B Clinton or GW Bush) who are pretty much PR figures. GH Bush had his own power base in government, but not in politics. That's why "machine" people like Cheney or Rumsfeld had so much influence.
J Biden looks like a partial exception, for he has a long experience in politics and in part in the federal administration, but he has no faction of his own, he has always been a lightweight, and is so obviously currently just fronting for the "New Democrat" faction just like B Clinton and BH Obama did.
"J Biden looks like a partial exception, for he has a long experience in politics and in part in the federal administration, but he has no faction of his own, he has always been a lightweight"
I still don't know WTF the actual puppet masters think they are achieving with Biden; to me he looks incredibly, obviously weak.
I'm reaching Philip K. Dick levels of paranoia here. Either the people in charge are inept fools scrambling for a temporary handhold at the edge of a cliff, or they are secret geniuses playing nth-dimensional chess. I don't see a middle-of-the-road explanation.