Why a black pastor supports Joe Biden
critiquing that “old comfortable shoes” framing, I’d called Waller’s office for comment, but I didn’t hear back until after it was published.
With that stipulated, why is Biden the guy who is getting his support now — along with 42 percent of black voters, according toreleased Wednesday? Waller doesn’t come off as if he is entranced by the talk of Biden’s “electability”; I can hear in his voice how important it is for his black congregants, living under the scourge of a white-nationalist president, to see Trump defeated next year.
“We kind of know what comes with the car, with Biden. And I think he was a good vice president to Obama, and he was strategic.” I’d disagree, since that didn’t work out so well when Biden was heading negotiations on tax cuts in 2012, when Mitch McConnellAs we talk, I sense that Waller has been buying the image of Joe Biden, at the very least.
“There’s definitely an age tension,” Waller told me. “My son-in-law, who is also a pastor, sounds a lot more like you, saying, ‘We can’t just settle. This is the time to go for it, we gotta get somebody in there that’s gonna turn over the tables.’ And so, I think that I’m as much a product of my age.”
“What he would have to show me is a real commitment to addressing concerns that I, and the constituency that I represent, have,” Waller said, noting that he ministers to a congregation of about 14,000 people at two separate campuses every Sunday. Does that mean Biden doing the typical front-pew politician act, something he brought up with Capehart? that a lot of black churches do,” Waller said.
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