Source: The American Conservative
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
“Asked what she thought about Democratic voters who say they are likely voting third party ‘or staying on the couch, not voting at all because of this issue,’ the vice president told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, ‘I am not going to deny the strong feelings that people have. I don’t know that anyone who has seen the images, who would not have strong feelings about what has happened.’ ‘But I also do know that for many people who care about this issue they also care about bringing down the price of groceries,’ she added. Her attempt at a sleight of hand, abruptly shifting from the deaths of nearly 43,000 people and the displacement of an entire population of 2 million in the Gaza Strip, to the cost of milk and bread at Safeway, was one of the cringier moments of the evening. … But she isn’t all wrong.” (10/29/24)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/war-and-the-cost-of-groceries/