Lucy Flores isn't alone. Joe Biden's got a long history of touching women inappropriately.

[Uncle Joe]

(snip)

Flores’s experience isn’t unique. It is no secret in Washington that Biden has touched numerous women inappropriately in public. It’s just never been treated as a serious issue by the mainstream press.

Biden’s been caught on camera embracing a female reporter from behind and gripping her above her waist, just below her bust. At a swearing-in ceremony for Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Biden put his hands on the shoulders of Stephanie Carter, Carter’s wife, and then leaned in and whispered into her ear. (He’s whispered into many women’s ears.) He’s also touched women’s faces and necks during other photo ops. Once at a swearing-in ceremony for a US senator, he held the upper arm of the senator’s preteen daughter, leaned down and whispered into her ear, as she became visibly uncomfortable. Then he kissed the side of her forehead, a gesture that made the girl flinch.

It’s all out in the open. News outlets wrote about these incidents. But the stories ran under light-hearted headlines like, “Photo of famously friendly Joe Biden goes viral” or “Here’s Joe Biden being Joe Biden with Ash Carter’s wife” or “Joe Biden: Sex symbol?,” a piece that I edited and now regret.

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The Democratic Party is more than half women. More women than ever in history ran as Democrats in the 2018 elections — and won. They outperformed their male peers. They were central to Democrats retaking the House. Women are leading the sustained resistance to Trump. The party should be committed to making sure that women and girls participate in government and politics to their fullest potential. The party needs them.

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/29/18241598/joe-biden-lucy-flores-touching-women-media-history-explained

[stonecutter357]

1. i'm not concerned at all .

[pnwmom]

10. Spoken like a guy.

Every woman I know would feel grossed out by being nuzzled like that by a man they didn't know. And they would be having to decide whether it would be worth it to "make a scene" or not.

[stonecutter357]

13. Cool Story, Bro , !

[Socal31]

2. This seems coordinated today.

But since he hasn't declared, can't he just go off the grid?

[Uncle Joe]

3. "Off the grid?"

[Socal31]

6. ?

It means disappear. Be unreachable.

If he isn't officially running yet, he won't have public appearance obligations.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Got you,

thanks Socal.

[Socal31]

9. Cheers!

[David__77]

4. Deep vetting or heavy vetting or whatever.

I think some people may be looking forward to some real intense vetting of Democratic candidates and wild-be candidates.

[PeeJ52]

5. Cmon... It's Uncle Joe... Everybody's got a creepy Uncle Joe, right?

We've all got that guy in the family that has to put his hands on everybody... Not like tRump though, he just goes for the pretty blondes.

[pnwmom]

11. Yeah, and we don't want our creepy uncle to be President. n/t

[stonecutter357]

14. i do !

[TwilightZone]

7. Re: Stephanie Carter - she said she didn't take issue with it.

"Ash Carter later said that he laughed about the incident and said that he and Stephanie were great friends with the Bidens:

“Oh, I laughed. I laughed. I laughed. They know each other extremely well, and we’re great friends with the Bidens,” he said in an interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on the “Today” show. Carter was traveling to his high school alma mater for a speech on the future of the armed forces.

Carter’s wife later said she was not offended by the vice president putting his hands on her shoulders and whispering in her ear, but Biden’s actions drew close scrutiny on social media and late-night talk shows."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/joe-biden-grope-photograph/

[marylandblue]

12. Some of the articles I saw about the incidents had less flattering headlines.

And that was before #metoo. If enough women echo Flores, it will suck the air out of his campaign.

[UniteFightBack]

15. Please stop with the right wing talking points. nt

[Kire]

18. New Yorker, the Daily Show, Young Turks

They've all done reports about this for years.

It's a non-partisan issue.

[flamingdem]

19. Exactly, we don't need to help the repugs

[Agschmid]

17. Where was the link from? What source?

[Kire]

21. The Young Turks

right from their youtube channel

The last half of the video mocks Glenn Beck for his comments on the same subject.

Edit: I just appealed it. Maybe it will come back.

[ucrdem]

20. Smells like a hit job.

Please don't do this here.

[Kire]

22. When you have evidence...

...let us know.