alt Hacker News>there must be an extremely effective opposition campaign to smear him.
In your world, Joe Biden was the modern day Abraham Lincoln, and the Russian propaganda firms are working overtime on HackerNews "smearing him".
In reality, Joe Biden was a career politician because he'd say whatever needed to be said to be elected at the time.
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SideburnsOfDoom • today at 2:31 PM
In actual reality "Joe Biden was a career politician because he'd say..." does not in any way contradict "Joe Biden did x and engaged in more y..." Outcomes matter, regardless of motives. Do you see the difference?
The rest is changing the subject - derailing and inflammatory.
cindyllm • today at 12:58 PM
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I’m definitely not saying he was a modern Abraham Lincoln, please don’t extend my words beyond their reach.
Being a career politician doesn’t mean anything positive or negative without further context. All that means is that you are winning elections.
You can be a career politician because you are popular and effective, or you can be a career politician because your political machine has done a good job of keeping you in power — or both.
Bernie Sanders has been in congress about as long as Susan Collins and they are definitely not the same people in terms of the integrity of their ideology and congressional voting record.