By Philip Giraldi
March 20, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Now that
the Democratic Party has apparently succeeded in
getting rid of the only two voices among its
presidential candidates that actually deviated from
the establishment consensus, it appears that Joe
Biden will be running against Donald Trump in
November. To be sure, Bernie Sanders and Tulsi
Gabbard are still hanging on, but the fix was in and
the Democratic National Committee (DNC) made sure
that Sanders would be given the death blow on Super
Tuesday while Gabbard would be blocked from
participating in any of the late term debates.
It is widely believed that the abrupt withdrawal
of candidates Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg on
the eve of Super Tuesday that targeted Sanders was
arranged through an intervention by ex-President
Barack Obama who made a plea in support of “party
unity,” offering the two a significant quid pro quo
down the road if they were willing to leave the race
and throw their support to Biden, which they
dutifully did. Rumor has it that Klobuchar might
well wind up as Biden’s vice president. An
alternative tale is that it was a much more
threatening “offer that couldn’t be refused” coming
from the Clintons.
Tulsi meanwhile was marginalized after being
smeared by Hillary Clinton’s claim that she was a
“Russian asset” being “groomed” by the Kremlin. She
was then denied her rightful place in the March 15th
debate by a sudden and unexpected rules change in
the format which was deliberately designed to
exclude her. So much for the internal democracy of
the so-called Democratic Party.
Now that the line-up for November seems set, the
discussion has moved to specific policy issues.
Foreign policy did not play much of a part in the
Democratic Party debates, but it is expected to be
more visible in the presidential race, particularly
in light of some of the more visible blunders
committed by Donald Trump and his associates.
