Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@jeneps Kudos for anticipating the Biden reaction. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jeneps Good point. But the flip side is that Biden wants to avoid fanning unneeded controversy with his VP pick. — PolitiTweet.org

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At a moment when Rice is coming under fire from the Bernie Sanders left for her establishmentarian foreign policy views, this totally justified tweet took a dollop of courage amid the VP countdown. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidCornDC: Good luck, John Weaver. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @asymmetricinfo: DeWine was the most cautious of governors, and I'd imagine he was just as careful in his personal life. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Notgnnatakeit Afraid I don't know anything about this. It just seems to be part of the massive Trump efforts to discourage absentee voting. The Brennan Center, where I am just a Fellow rather than a day-to-day staffer, has written about the larger topic many times. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rawilson59 @JRubinBlogger Yes. For so many more reasons than the debates. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CommodoreNelson As I recall, the Commission was created and given total power over the debates after Reagan and Mondale churned through more than 100 moderators in 1984 looking for someone mutually acceptable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JRubinBlogger That was my point. Though my first debate question for Trump would probably have revolved counting down from seven or remembering a new set of five words. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve been snubbed once again Thank God. — PolitiTweet.org

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@neeratanden @RonBrownstein For a while, Trump seemed very open to Norwegian immigrants. — PolitiTweet.org

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So awed by those who can write so movingly on deadline in the midst of chaos and tragedy. Especially if they are bleeding themselves. Wow. — PolitiTweet.org

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Donald Trump constantly gushes over a former KGB officer named Putin. — PolitiTweet.org

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That's why Trump dramatically announcing in mid-October that 300 million doses of an amazing vaccine will be available the day after the election may not move the electoral needle much. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pattmlatimes The tribe from County Cork? — PolitiTweet.org

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I didn't know that Kennedy was Jewish and a Semite. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dcg1114 @kkondik Quayle in 1988 was too late. Bush kept the secret until the second day of the New Orleans convention. Most delegates knew nothing about him other than he was from Indiana and he played a lot of golf. As a result, it was a disastrous rollout. — PolitiTweet.org

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@asknbid @fordm @YAppelbaum The reference was to pre-war Jewish Poland where, I believe, the polka was not a major dance tune. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ArgoJournal @fordm @YAppelbaum Thank you for this. But I do think that maybe 2013 (the date of the episode) may be a little late to learn Yosemite Sam's ethnic background, since he has been in show business since 1944. — PolitiTweet.org

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@fordm @YAppelbaum So would I. It reminds me of what Jules Feiffer said about the origins of Superman in the late 1930s: "He came from a distant planet called Poland." — PolitiTweet.org

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@JuliaManhattan Thank you. I thought it involved bank loans. — PolitiTweet.org

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@watchandlisten3 @DickYoungsGhost Not in NYC. We're talking about storefronts on the ground floors of long-occupied residential buildings. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Francis_Lam Not sure that's the cause on the Upper West Side, since most storefronts are on the ground floor of residential buildings. And this is even true when the vacant storefronts are in the middle of a crosstown block, which means no banks or drug stores — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm desperately trying to imagine a context for more than 150,000 deaths and a pandemic raging out of control. — PolitiTweet.org

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This has long been a big mystery. Even before the pandemic, dozens of small businesses and restaurants on the Upper West Side were forced out by usurious rent increases. Then the storefronts sit vacant for 5 years. Is it banks that won't let over-leveraged landlords lower rents? — PolitiTweet.org

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@LOLGOP Bad taste, but so funny. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dying to know (make that “eager to know”) whether sidelining the Health Commissioner was a good thing or another de Blasio screwup. — PolitiTweet.org

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Electoral benefits of VPs on the ticket are close to invisible. Yes, you do want to avoid a Palin or a Quayle. But biggest factor with VP pick is: Can she or he help govern? Examples: Gore, Cheney and Biden. — PolitiTweet.org

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My phone just delivered a series of breathless bulletins that someone named Jim Farley has just taken over at Ford. My immediate thought was that the Democratic Party boss under FDR was a little old to change careers. And dead besides. — PolitiTweet.org

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The only VP exclusive we remember is the 2004 NY Post headline (based on a tip from Rupert Murdoch): "IT'S GEPHARDT." — PolitiTweet.org