In any other company Biden would seem unabashedly leftist, but on THAT stage, he seemed almost moderate - he seemed to be the only serious contender who wasn't a dyed-in-the-wool communist. He also seemed to be the only one for whom fiscal responsibility was even a consideration. (One of the others - I'm not sure which - made some sort of a comment to the effect that we shouldn't worry about money.
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Cory Booker mentioned growing up in a neighborhood full of gunfire and gun violence.
Q: Hey Cory, are you saying that gangs of white supremacists were running amok in the hood?Beto of course said that they WOULD be coming for AR15s.
Q: Hey Beto, what's NEXT on your list?Beto also supported reparations for slavery, since our country began in the 1600s (NOT 1776) with the import of slaves. Great applause line since this debate was at a HBCU campus.
One moderator asked Biden a "gotcha" question about a statement he allegedly made in reference to reparations for slavery back in the 1970s - something about "he'd be damned if he'd be responsible for what happened 300 years earlier."
I think it was Warren who alluded to taking multiple steps until gun violence was gone.
Q: Hey, Liz, WHAT are the next steps, and what's your timeline?The fair and impartial (
) moderator from Univision did his best to advocate for illegal aliens with his questions.
And of course, several times
Trump was explicitly blamed for recent mass shootings.
In the analysis afterwards, a guy with a cowboy hat - I think he was Bernie's Texas campaign manager - showed how well thought out Bernie's gun control plans were by making reference to his hunting with nonexistent cartridges and saying nobody needs an AR-47 to hunt. (That's right, AR, not AK.)
A GOP spokeswoman mentioned that Beto and other democrats were not going to win many Texas votes by promising to go door to door to confiscate the most popular rifles in America.
All in all, it came off like a three-hour infomercial - for Trump.