Subject: Joe Biden: 'I'm not Bernie Sanders' | MSNBC
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:11:02 -0400

At this point I am reassessing everything.  Whatever else I do I am going to denounce
a Biden candidacy.  First he gives a rousing populist Labor Day speech.  Then he has
a prominent meeting with Elizabeth Warren.  Now he gives a speech to the usual
suspects at Concordia where he says he is not a populist, he is a realist, which makes
a mockery of his Labor Day speech and his Elizabeth Warren meeting.

a) I don't think Biden runs, but if he does, 100% of the votes he takes come from
Hillary.  If this happens and Bernie picks up a few more black voters, watch out.

b) I am so fed up with polyester populists it leaves me speechless, and I include
the candidate who recently said "I plead guilty" to being centrist and moderate,
and then falsely saying last week "some people way all we need to do is break up
big banks".....nobody says this, her words are total nonsense.  I had a very strong
pro-Hillary column finalized for my last Thursday column, titled "The first woman president", but when I saw the whole tape of her nonsense about banks, I deleted it entirely.

c) at this rate Democrats could well yield most of the populist unhappiness with
Washington to conservatives and Republicans.

d) If Hillary triangulates again during the debate, Bernie wins the debate, possibly
big.

e) the smart move for Hillary would be to build on the bad jobs numbers on Friday
and take a strong populist position in the debate and not maneuver, hedge, or become intellectually hog-tied by her army of corporatist consultants, though I suspect she
will triangulate, and will regret it.

Here is Biden's version of polyester populism,  similar to Hillary's "I plead guilty" to
being a centrist, and I quadruple fact-checked this with a deep dive into the Concordia
Summit and what Biden actually said in this latest example of polyester populism.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/joe-biden-im-not-bernie-sanders

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