The former senator and close friend of Joe Biden is but one member of the 4 person group Biden has whittling down his potential Vice President pick group….
Dodd in speaking to a donor last week expressed annoyance that Kamala Harris showed ‘no remorse’ for attacking Joe Biden hard in the first Democratic primary debate….
Biden was taken aback during the debate at her actions and Jill Biden has said that she was also surprised and as uncomfortable as he husband at the action…
Biden has worked with Harris in the past and has never said anything negative about her , but was clearly surprised at the debate attacks at the time…
Dodd has come under fire from those supporting Harris and others who want to disregard harris’s hard edge …..She has been a DA and the Attorney General of California …She has experience going after people…
The below Politico piece is meant to show that Biden does trust his old US Senate friend and is another example of the damage control the Harris name has forced Biden to consider in his upcoming choice for his Vice President…
This does NOT mean Biden won’t pick her….
As Joe Biden readies to make one of the biggest decisions of his political career — choosing a woman, and possibly a woman of color, as his running mate — he’s leaning on a 76-year-old male colleague from his days in the Senate for help.
Chris Dodd, a one-time Connecticut senator and lobbyist, is officially just one of four people on a vice presidential selection committee that’s been operating behind closed doors for months.
But this week he burst into public view after POLITICO reported Dodd complained to a prominent donor that Kamala Harris, the frontrunner in the veepstakes, had shown “no remorse” for tearing into Biden during the first Democratic primary debate last summer.
The backlash was swift.
“Chris Dodd” was soon trending on Twitter Monday morning. A chorus of voices asked whether Biden had wrongly empowered an old friend from his time in the overwhelmingly male Senate to steer his potentially historic pick. They accused Dodd of singling out Harris for the kind of behavior that’s rarely criticized when a man does it — aggressively going after an opponent in a debate.
“Hey @SenChrisDodd,” Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen wrote on Twitter. “This is the kind of crappy behavior this process doesnt need. Shut up.” Biden himself arrived at a news conference prepared with talking points about Harris, expecting questions.
And on ABC’s “The View” Tuesday, Sunny Hostin raised the issue again.
“I was thinking, how many times are woman told to stay in their place?” Hostin said, “to do something that is different than what men always do?”
Sources close to Dodd and those with knowledge of the selection process said his role is no larger than that of the other three search committee members.
But dozens of Democrats — including former aides of VP short-listers, party leaders, former and current elected officials and donors — said their primary contact with the selection team has been Dodd.
Biden and Dodd were cast in the same mold. Like Biden, Dodd tried to cap a lengthy Senate career with a bid for the White House — they both ran unsuccessfully in 2008. Biden supporters and associates said the two are very close; some even described them as being like brothers.
And so when it came time to narrow his VP choice, Biden turned to his loyal friend whose political instincts he trusts….
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The damage control extended into Wednesday night, when Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon seemed to address criticism that Dodd’s comments were a sign that Biden would somehow snub Harris because she showed ambition.
“Ambitious women make history, change the world, and win. Our campaign is full of ambitious women going all out for Joe Biden,”….
image…NYPost.Com
Supposedly Harris ,when confronted by Dodd over her remarks at one of the debates laughed and said,”That’s politics.”
What’s the big deal?
It was!
Good God has Dodd forgotten how LBJ mocked JFK ,even in a debate 48 hours before he was named the VP candidate?
Or how about GH Bush labeling Reagans economic program “voodoo economics” and the famous debate standoff in New Hampshire?
And while I remember nothing specific ,I’m sure there were some spirited exchanges between John Kerry and John Edwards in 2004.
So yes in presidential contests all sorts of things are said, but realistically?Yes,Harris was spot on.This is politics.It ain’t beanball and if Harris is to be hoisted on this petard?
One has to believe that there is another reason for not choosing her cause this doesn’t even make the “smell” test, much less pass it.
She basically was calling Biden a racist. It was a planned attack and her campaign had t shirts and everything made up and ready to go. That sort of goes beyond whatever has happened in past primaries between people who later joined together on a ticket.
Biden and his wife were said to feel particularly hurt because she knew Beau well from when they were both AGs.
Implying that Biden was a racist the way she did, when she will laugh now and say she didn’t believe it but stands by doing so may be par for the course for politics today but that is a pretty sad commentary on our politics and I do not blame the Bidens for feeling like they do.
Also perhaps Joe Biden might understand why it might have been upsetting for Mitt Romney to hear Biden claim that Romney wanted to put black voters “back in chains.”
You weren’t around in 1980 were you?
I’ve seen the debates held between Reagan and Bush on YouTube. They were high minded and civil.
Yeah, “voodoo economics” got thrown around. Nobody said the other one was a racist or a segregationist.
The ticket that once said the worst things about each other (but nowhere near the level of implying someone was a racist) were Dole and Kemp, who teamed up years later.
The S.C. Primary was brutal.
Bushs people were calling Reagan senile.
Reagan’s people were blasting Bush for being an elitist from Connecticut who moved down to Texas but the stench of the Ivy League was still all over him..
It was brutal.
A “sad commentary “on our politics?”You ,in the party of Trump ,are worried about a “sad commentary on our politics?”In one day, Trump says more garbage that Harris has uttered in her whole life.
Anyway ,whomever the Democrats nominate you will oppose ,so your comments are thoroughly predictable.
Oh and that’s a nice touch.
You “don’t blame” the Bidens for being upset.
You who have implied on several occasions that Biden isn’t really “with it?”
Cute.
If Biden isn’t with it, he may never have been truly with it. I think he is basically the same politician he always has been When he looked like he was done for, you said on here that he clearly was showing signs of age.
I have specifically defended Biden from claims that he is senile. Let’s get the facts straight.
Nope you’ve implied here on many occasions that he is not mentally with it.
You know you have and now you’re wiggling.
Perhaps that would have “hurt “the Bidens.
Not at all. I have said he is a gaffe machine. He is and always has been. It has nothing to do with his age.
I have specifically defended him against people who have said he shows signs of senility. I do not see that. I just see signs of him being the same Joe Biden.
Let’s keep the facts straight.
Yes “your facts.”
You’ve been wrong about things I have said before and retracted them many times. I am sorry that someone else made you angry today, Things happen.
The people aren’t the principals. (or is it principles?)
Yes, sad commentary on our politics and a very big reason why Trump is where he is.
Sorry but I don’t think someone should call someone a racist or a criminal unless they actually mean it and then laugh about it later and say “oh, that’s politics. Winning is more important than integrity.”
If you believe all this how in the world can you be in a political party led by Donald Trump or actually defend any Republican?
How am I “in” Trump’s party? I have told you many times the steps I have taken to distance myself from the party since he was nominated.
If I defend Republicans, it is on issue matters or because unfair attacks have been made against then, just like I defended Biden against unfair attacks made against him, including the one made by Harris in the debate.
But rest assured, if you guys blow this one and Trump gets reelected, I will finalize my divorce with the GOP.
No you won’t.
And ,according the day of the week, you are a Republican or not..
Whatever.
It’s cheap comedy.
You are a Republican .Everyone here knows it .You are in a party led by Donald Trump,consisting mostly of supporters of him .
Your sanctimonious is well known and frankly boring.
Something happened to you today to cause you to lash out. There there, take a breath. It will be ok.
Oh here we go again..
Disagreeing with you means someone is having a “bad day.”
I’ve said many times that your “I’m not a Republican “ routine is BS.
It is and everyone here knows it.
I have made very clear that I am a disaffected Republican. There is no way to lump me together with Trump. That reeks of ignorance and desperation.
My point is very consistent. That sort of attack on Biden is right from the Trump playbook and the “all is in fair in politics” environment that produced Trump.
I want something better and more honorable, on all sides and from all people. If that makes me sanctimonious, so be it.
Since we’re playing games here now take a breath and say it…
“I am a Republican.”
“The Republican Party is led by a psychotic psychopathic nut named Donald Trump.”
“Most of the people in this party are supporters of his.”
“It’s a sad commentary on our politics but I don’t care..”
“I’m still A Republican.”
See that’s easy!
And if you guys blow it and Trump gets reelected, I will formally be a former Republican.
But i will still be a conservative though, and thus, “evil.”
Yep it makes you sanctimonious.
By remaining a Republican and implicitly associating and defending those who support him, the stain rubs off on you and your vain efforts to try to get around that by various circumlocutions are well known and unavailing.
So be it!
Anybody think ‘Republican’ Jeb Bush is gonna vote FOR Donald Trump?
No you’re not evil.
You’re just a Republican.
Ok by me.
What I ,and I suspect others find amusing ,is your periodic attempts to claim all these hyphenated exceptions.
You are the one voting for the red hat wearing Trump bootlickers not me.
I think you are probably more of a Republican than me. You are much older, richer, southern, and less Jewish so I think you might really be the gasp…. Republican!
Yeah that’s it!
The unmasking is complete! Now, I am going to have a Scooby Snack.
We’ll see if she gets the job….
I must admit something here…..
If you move to look at the 2024 Presidential election/
You could justify Harris being picked for this very same reason….
The Republicans will most likely nominate a much younger person to run against Biden…
Democrats and Biden might want to have someone perceived to be a harder ass then Rice….
But then?
A Rice VP could grommet to succeed Biden also….
So may variables?
We will have to remember perhaps that whenever Trump or his ilk make a vicious and untrue statement about Biden or anyone else on that side, that “politics ain’t beanbag.”
The sanctimony is flowing.
Now, you sound just like the Trumpists.
I guess you and they do have the same view of politics. The ends justify the means.
Oh please this stuff is so tiring.
Do you believe has ever said or done something in politics that you wouldn’t consider moral?
How about George W Bush or
Saint Ronald?
Good God get real!
Nobody is perfect but honorable people tend to be honorable when it counts and most people will have regrets when they think they have gone too far.
Whether Biden forgives her or not to the extent of putting her on the ticket is up to him, but your position is basically saying it is ok and acceptable that she implied he was a racist and a segregationist.
So when Trump says the same thing about Biden, you will be just as accepting.
Yeah the 2024 Republican nominee will probably be under 81.
The word is that John Burton, our former State Chair who has a long-standing feud with Kamala, called Dodd to express his concern that “you cannot trust Kamala because she is too ambitious” and that elicited this “leak.”
This is much ado.
Politics ain’t bean bag.
Politics ain’t beanbag, and nothing Kamala has said about Biden can be considered racist. She correctly was critical of his position on busing. Now, since she was living in Berkeley and the child of highly educated and successful parents she was always going to succeed in life. So her comment may have been in its way disconnected from reality at the time, but she didn’t call Joe a racist. She was looking for a political hook to break out of the field.
Now investigating our first black President’s birth certificate is racist and saying “he needs to learn how to be an American” is racist. But Joe was wrong on bussing and Kamala used her personal experience, exaggerated as it was, to highlight his position.
That’s politics.
All that really matters is what Biden and his wife feel.
It seems very interesting that they are allowing leaks (or have a genuine leaker problem) saying that he wants someone who never wants to be President.
Harris IS correct…..
Politicians throw at each other ALL the time….
But lets remember…
This WAS something that Biden had to deal with for a while…..
And Harris went at Biden HARD.…
But Joe Biden was physically upset at Harris’ attack and his wife she was also…..
Both have said recently that they understand the back and forth and Joe has spoken to Harris several time since….
It STILL will be something for Biden to consider….
This is all much ado over nothing.
In 1988 Bob Dole told GHW Bush to “stop lying about my record”.
Dole was considered for VP that year and Bush probably wishes he would have picked him instead of Quayle. Sure, they won, but the next four years there were questions of Quayle’s fitness for the Oval Office that he wouldn’t have had to deal with if he went with Dole.
I think Elizabeth was under more consideration than Bob that year from all the things I have read.
Also, Kemp was very much in the mix, but Bush had the trepidation (correctly) that it would be tough for Kemp to not go off and try to do his own thing rhetorically and otherwise.
From the books I have read on the 1988 election the Bush campaign was pretty close to jettisoning Quayle and would have definitely picked Bob Dole in that situation.
Quayle was sort of a late decision. It surprised many. Domenici was under serious consideration. I bet they did not know that he had secretly fathered a love child with Paul Laxalt’s daughter.
The rollout of Quayle was not handled well, but he was mistreated by the media of course. He had an impressive record in Congress. The rationale for picking him was that he would be the first Boomer on a ticket and that he was from the Midwest battleground and that he helped persuade conservatives who were iffy on Bush.
and ultimately, that pick made zero difference.
Dukakis went from a potential landslide winner in July to a landslide loser in November.
Don’t get too overconfident!
Of course it is Scott. Much ado on a day the Republican Party is following its leader off a cliff.
We hear so much about morals here, this is a moral choice for Republicans and they failing.
If you guys think it is fair to attack Biden over votes in the 70s implying he was a racist and a segregationist who am I to argue?
Trump voters were willing to overlook a lot they thought about him too.
Trump is going to attack Biden on the crime bill and say he is racist because the policies in the 90s locked up so many African-Americans.
How will Harris defend him on that?
and they have clips from 80s of Biden at a committee hearing using the n word numerous times (putting aside the fact he was criticizing the use of it). Will Harris be willing to defend that or does Biden just need to apologize?
You should be more concerned about how you are going to defend your support of 2024 or 2028 GOP nominees for President and Vice President who completely went along with Trump’s racism and attacks on our Democratic principles.
I have no idea who will be nominated by either party down the line or if I will even still be around.
But it’s hard to see anybody worse than Trump.
I’m signing off now because I want to finish something before the day is over and this is way more fun…..
Was the term “n word” even commonly used in the 80s? So you are complying that Biden criticized the use of a word 35 years ago? Seriously?
Yes, seriously Zreebs.
https://richmond.com/news/national/on-joe-biden-using-the-n-word/article_dea99a2b-8a19-5043-9cf2-58e27697def6.html
I don’t care about Biden’s role in this story but it will go around social media, etc. Times have changed. The word certainly would not be spoken like this anymore and that is a good thing.
As proven in the primaries…..
Black voters HAVE Joe Biden’s back….
The older they are?….
The more so….
Give the ole timer props!
Complaining, not complying
Like I said, much ado.
But how was the snack Corey, did your mom make it for you?
I think Jack said it all today about our friend’s allegiance to the Republican Party. A person who has never voted for one Democrat for any statewide or federal office is being rather silly trying to criticize one vote for an office in deep red South Carolina by a life long Democrat (who like the rest of us have actually split their ticket).
These walks down Republican memory lane get rather old, in fact very old, and have almost nothing to do with politics today and this Republican Party. I think our friend’s snark is generated by the fact that his party is going down the old pan.
Kamala will have no problem defending Joe Biden, will Mike Pence be able to defend his turd boss? If Mike Pence is the Republican nominee this year.
Trump is sending condolences to Herman Cain for being so fucking stupid to attend his rally sans mask. He actually said he grieves for all Americans who have died. Now he is telling even more lies about the virus. This needs to end, and folks that constantly make whatabout excuses for him and his Party are on the wrong side of history.
They are failing