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Phoenix is Republican-leaning territory, so I hadn't seen much in the way of pre-convention Democratic Presidential campaign ads in many years. Tucson on the other hand is heavily Democratic. We'd been flooded with Mike Bloomberg ads all winter till he dropped out. With our primary date looming we've gotten Sanders and Biden ads.
Last night on a whim I decided to watch Trump's address on Covid19. I'd avoided all of his speeches since before he was elected, so I don't know if what I saw was typical.
At any rate the three candidates for the election this year impress me like this:
Sanders looks and acts like a stereotypical, bent-backed, old man leaning over lecterns as if he'd fall down if unsupported. However his rhetoric is aimed at inexperienced university Freshmen and those professors who live in a cloud and never grew up politically, with a bone or two thrown to blue collar workers. I haven't heard so much pie-in-the-sky in ages. His vanity won't let him give up. His stubbornness won't let him see half a loaf is better than none. It looks like he'll hang on like he did last time. Hillary gave in and adopted some of his more expensive ideas in a vain attempt to try to attract younger voters, which just hurt her with blue collar workers.
Biden looks very old but healthy. He's running in AZ as "not-Bernie-so-I-can-win." I hope he picks a much younger guy to run as his V.P. He's ahead, he knows it and he shows it.
Trump, at least last night, was the worst President at reading a teleprompter since Jimmy "I pause in the... oddest places" Carter. Trump seemed to be squinting to see the teleprompter at all. It's your office, dude, you can put it closer if you need it. Vanity doesn't seem to have left him. I was shocked to see he still uses fake tan after all these years. Not quite as bright orange as in 2016, but he's still orange. It's highly unlikely he wrote his speech and he came off like a terrified junior high school kid in speech class. The toss-in political slogans were delivered so meekly and unenthusiastically they were less grating than usual. You got the feeling he was giving the speech against his will. People dying is still all "fake news" I guess.
Last night on a whim I decided to watch Trump's address on Covid19. I'd avoided all of his speeches since before he was elected, so I don't know if what I saw was typical.
At any rate the three candidates for the election this year impress me like this:
Sanders looks and acts like a stereotypical, bent-backed, old man leaning over lecterns as if he'd fall down if unsupported. However his rhetoric is aimed at inexperienced university Freshmen and those professors who live in a cloud and never grew up politically, with a bone or two thrown to blue collar workers. I haven't heard so much pie-in-the-sky in ages. His vanity won't let him give up. His stubbornness won't let him see half a loaf is better than none. It looks like he'll hang on like he did last time. Hillary gave in and adopted some of his more expensive ideas in a vain attempt to try to attract younger voters, which just hurt her with blue collar workers.
Biden looks very old but healthy. He's running in AZ as "not-Bernie-so-I-can-win." I hope he picks a much younger guy to run as his V.P. He's ahead, he knows it and he shows it.
Trump, at least last night, was the worst President at reading a teleprompter since Jimmy "I pause in the... oddest places" Carter. Trump seemed to be squinting to see the teleprompter at all. It's your office, dude, you can put it closer if you need it. Vanity doesn't seem to have left him. I was shocked to see he still uses fake tan after all these years. Not quite as bright orange as in 2016, but he's still orange. It's highly unlikely he wrote his speech and he came off like a terrified junior high school kid in speech class. The toss-in political slogans were delivered so meekly and unenthusiastically they were less grating than usual. You got the feeling he was giving the speech against his will. People dying is still all "fake news" I guess.