Bobby Kennedy Jr.

[Dill]

(07-01-2023, 10:32 AM)Millhouse Wrote: This is one of those times I will be selfish and hope he doesn't even make it to the primaries because of is views and stances on vaccines. And for that matter anyone that agrees with him. Because all I would like to say him and others like him is let's trade immune systems, and see how quick they change their tune.

See this summer I have been getting re-vaccinated of my original baby shots I got 40 some years ago. I'm getting my last round of 3 at the end of this month, as they were spaced out about 2 months. So had a conversation with my oncologist on this topic, even though I have never been an anti-vaxer conspiracy person. Anyways long story short, getting my baby shots again is just part of the puzzle of having better odds to making to old age. Which is the point of vaccines, medicines, wearing masks, etc., to give one better odds of making to old age. THey aren't foolproof by any means, but its about giving oneself your best odds. Ones like him, wants to reduce those odds on people.

With you on the bolded. He would just be a distraction on the debate stage.

With you an the vax points too. Part of the oft referenced "division" between Americans right now is over the validity of science,
not just about vaccines, but on a number of fronts.

GOP is the anti-science party, but a proportion of Dems follow the vax conspiracy stuff too. I don't want that becoming an issue that legitimate candidates have to "take a position" on and debate. We'll look as silly as the other side, and the debate recognition will legitimate it as a real debate between two valid points of view.

Also I just don't see Kennedy leading the country on all the other important issues that will require speech time and a speaking voice to articulate. I don't see him doing well at international summits with foreign leaders. He wouldn't be a Trump-level national embarrassment, but he would leave the world scratching its head about our choices.