Army Bob: So the Dems are down to 2 old white men

Senator Mazie Hirono (D- HI) previously stated, “Old white men should just sit down and shut up.” OK, is she including Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, the two old white men in the finals for the Democrat nomination for President?

Will the esteemed Senator from the “Ua Mau ka Aina I ka Pono” or “The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness,” state, support the party’s candidate who will be an old white man? She has pledged she will. In the news and politics businesses, what a person says and does is not normally the same. Folks, you can’t make this stuff up.

During the process of finding a standard bearer for the leftist party, some folks ran who scared me a good bit, folks who stood a good chance of winning; young, minorities, women, anyone but the dreaded old white male so reviled by the left. But it appears that the Democrats are going in the same direction the Republicans did for years, choosing whoever was next in line, whoever’s turn it is; in this case it is Vice President Biden.

Senator Sanders may stand a chance of winning and Vice President Biden may as well, but a Mayor Pete Buttigieg or a Tulsi Gabbard along with Elizabeth Warren had a better chance. It will now be an old white man against an even older white man. Sanders could fire up a portion of the very far left, however the numbers are small, and the young are not noted for turning out in large numbers to vote. Biden can bring out the base but does not excite the critical 5% to 9% who refer to themselves as Democrats, but do not always vote, especially if you subtract the young, Bernie Bros.

In seven months, the Coronavirus will be out of the picture and the stock market will have recovered. In the last four years the media has fired every round in the arsenal at President Trump and he is still holding the line.

Biden has Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s billions behind him, but is it not the Democratic Party whose mantra was that we need to get money out of politics? Secretary Hillary Clinton outspent President Donald Trump by over $300 million, $400 million vs. $700 million. Some Democrats, those with principles, may be turned off by the Democrats being the party of the rich. In the last election the hated Wall Street people gave more to the Democrats than Republicans; it will be difficult to fire up the principled left with millions from the corner of Wall and Broad Streets and an old white man (Bloomberg) with billions (60 of them), funding  Biden.

Biden will have trouble painting Trump as a greedy leech when his son Hunter has a real live problem with a pay to play/ no show job scandal of his own. Other family members of Biden have problems with ethics; the media may not report them, but the online sources will. If you are reading this, it proves the power of the new media.

The truth of the FISA warrant abuse will come out in the next few months, and as I have maintained for years now, the abuse of power and even criminal actions of the “Deep State” will come out. Those who have a sense of decency and judicial fairness will object to this abuse of power. If the false affidavit, if the folks swearing to the truthfulness of an affidavit they knew to be false were used to investigate anyone but our President, this would have been a scandal of monumental proportion driven by the media. It still may be.

In politics it is an eternity until election day, and anything can happen. But if you are an anti-establishment liberal, then Biden is not your old white man — Sanders would be your old white man. In a contest between old white men, Trump and Sanders are the outsiders, the mavericks. Biden is the choice of the establishment, Wall Street and even the Deep State.

Molon labe.