Candidates can’t run against Joe Biden without running against some Obama policies. onesarahjones writes
For a lot of people, the good old days weren’t so great. Photo: Ron Sachs/Shutterstock During Wednesday evening’s Democratic debate, Joe Biden didn’t look so inevitable. Pressed on the Obama administration’s immigration record, and then on his personal support for an infamously regressive crime bill, he found himself defending Obama’s judgement nearly as often as he defended his own.
Castro landed on his feet. “First of all, Mr. Vice-President, it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn’t,” he responded. He wasn’t the only candidate to criticize the Obama administration’s deportation rates, either. “I didn’t hear whether you tried to stop them or not, using your power, your influence in the White House,” Bill de Blasio, New York City’s absentee mayor, said to Biden.Obama’s defenders have one point right.
Set the validity of the criticism to the side for one moment. Even if we accept, for the sake of argument, that it’s a practical mistake for Democratic candidates to criticize the party’s popular former president, Biden is the one who put Obama’s legacy on trial. Biden runs on the promise of inertia; he tells voters that if they choose him, the nightmare will recede and we will all go back to the winsome days of beer summits and pragmatism.
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