What if Biden won the 2008 election? What would his policies be? How would the GOP react to him?
Was Biden behind the Title IX rape policy? If so, I think the backlash against "SJWs" would still occur, but there not be as much of, if any, backlash against racial minorities. Maybe the Charlottesville rally would instead occur somewhere that's symbolic of patriarchy?
I wonder what Trump would do without a "Kenyan Muslim" President to attack.
Was Biden behind the Title IX rape policy? If so, I think the backlash against "SJWs" would still occur, but there not be as much of, if any, backlash against racial minorities. Maybe the Charlottesville rally would instead occur somewhere that's symbolic of patriarchy?
I wonder what Trump would do without a "Kenyan Muslim" President to attack.
What’s the POd? Obama dies in a freak bowling accident before the election and Biden takes over The ticket?
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It's hard to imagine exactly what was going through Boehner and McConnell's minds when they came up with the "all obstruction all the time" strategy against Obama. To be...kinda careful about it, let's say that their primary fear was seeing Obama become a liberal hero whose legend would see a political realignment spanning the next 20 years. There was a lot of rhetoric about inexperience at the time, and the right treating Obama as a norms-breaker for coming in wet behind the ears, which always read on the left as a racist dog-whistle. But you know, it could be both! Aghast over his greenness, and also, I mean, you know, probably, for several of them, yeah, um...racism.
So does Biden prompt that kind of reaction? I don't think so. But! It could all just be game theory having a moment, a trend in politics that had little to do with the provocation of the Obama presidency. So maybe "all obstruction all the time" happens anyway.
With the disappearance of Blue Dogs - and northeastern Republicans - the parties are much more ideologically pure than they were in the past. We saw this even in the 1990s with the venom directed at Clinton. They were looking for any pretext for impeachment and had to resort to Monica when Whitewater turned out to be a very hole.
W briefly dodged all of that with the rally round the flag effect after 9/11 but before long it was business as usual.
He was a proponent of partitioning Iraq and 2009 (the year he'd be inaugurated) would be too late of a year. Some say his proposal would have worked better in the 1990s, immediately after the Persian Gulf War. But of course, for that to happen, he'd have to be elected President in 1988.It's probably too late in 2008, but if I remember correctly Biden was a proponent of splitting Iraq into three countries, wasn't he?