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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Biden's enemies have found the perfect smear weapon [View all]Gothmog
(145,046 posts)115. Joe Biden is a honestly decent human being
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Decorum seemed far from Bidens mind when he went off-schedule to stop by the Cabinet Room on June 10, 2013. He slung an arm around my husband, who was about to be nominated by President Barack Obama as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; he hugged my in-laws, whom he had never met; and then he homed in on my kindergartner. The vice president sat down and whispered to my anxious kid about the small Schleich knight he was clutching. My son relaxed, and slumped back into Bidens lap. At that point, an aide interrupted to say that Biden was overdue for a meeting with Kosovar Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi. Still, he refused to rush. He called over my daughter and his photographer for this photo:
Why am I telling another Biden being Biden story? Because I believe that the character of the person who occupies the Oval Office is of the utmost importance, and because I believe that Biden, far from a bad man, is an unusually good one.....
Bidens disregard of this protocol is telling. He enters a room, just as he enters a debate about union rights or domestic violence, with a predisposition to lend an ear to the least powerful.
Judging from the reaction to the recent spate of Biden stories, time is up on avuncular attention, now interpreted as at best pernicious paternalism and at worst septuagenarian sexual harassment. In the cultural revolution under way in America, men like Biden are invited to offer their head if their prior actions deviated from the new norms.
No doubt, character counts. I, for one, admire Bidens deviant decency.
Why am I telling another Biden being Biden story? Because I believe that the character of the person who occupies the Oval Office is of the utmost importance, and because I believe that Biden, far from a bad man, is an unusually good one.....
Bidens disregard of this protocol is telling. He enters a room, just as he enters a debate about union rights or domestic violence, with a predisposition to lend an ear to the least powerful.
Judging from the reaction to the recent spate of Biden stories, time is up on avuncular attention, now interpreted as at best pernicious paternalism and at worst septuagenarian sexual harassment. In the cultural revolution under way in America, men like Biden are invited to offer their head if their prior actions deviated from the new norms.
No doubt, character counts. I, for one, admire Bidens deviant decency.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Oh, but the third says he touched her thigh and hugged her too long, and the fourth said
LongtimeAZDem
Apr 2019
#5
She was a freshman in college when she said that, and it was shortly after the incident.
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#13
No, it wouldn't. I'm talking about one that acknowledges and accepts that he made someone
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#31
I don't think we should be diminishing the accusations of these women who come forward
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#75
And they need to grow up; men have put up with all kinds of uncomfortable female behavior
LongtimeAZDem
Apr 2019
#20
And that is the same. PEOPLE shouldn't be grabbing each other outside of a personal relationship.nt
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#29
So you tell them, then and there. You don't make a federal case out of it years later.
LongtimeAZDem
Apr 2019
#30
Maybe because we need to nominate the candidate with the best chance of defeating
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#52
Where was the word "if"? I said, "To anyone I have made uncomfortable." That would be accepting
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#28
The statements are equivalent. I'm done trying to teach you comprehension. Adieu
LongtimeAZDem
Apr 2019
#48
No. He will lose ,and I won't post dirt about any candidate but there is plenty.
Demsrule86
Apr 2019
#64
Nope, Bernie will win...easily!! Ever wonder why anyone would believe ANYTHING the Liar-in-Chief
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#65
He won't win a general. But I don't believe he can win the primary anyway...negatives
Demsrule86
Apr 2019
#67
True... not saying Bernie is perfect. But, he certainly has less negatives than many of the other
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#70
I have not seen Biden's negatives. Did you see they want to end birthright citizenship? If Trump
Demsrule86
Apr 2019
#77
I see where you're coming from... but, seriously, you haven't seen Joe's negatives?
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#86
Okay, fair enough... not sure if that's really so much outcome determinative...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#90
Bernie has confirmed what I've been saying... he'll supplement the release of his 2014 tax return
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#97
First of all, NOT all...second, Bernie obviously doesn't want to release his tax returns piecemeal.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#100
I agree with you COMPLETELY that it would be too late by then... it would not be acceptable
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#108
Yes, I was referring to the fact that Bernie's never been accused of any impropriety with women.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#105
Joe Biden is the most electable candidate that the Democratic Party has available
Gothmog
Apr 2019
#26
You think JOE is "targeted" by those who are afraid?! By that logic, Bernie is BY FAR
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#66
Great, so Bernie is being vetted, unfairly by some, and, yet, he's still at the top of the polls.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#84
That it might backfire in no way mitigates the contemptible nature of the smear.
LongtimeAZDem
Apr 2019
#40
Any GOP ad will simply be recut with Trump pics and statments and re-released. I'll backfire
LongtimeAZDem
Apr 2019
#54
Absolutely. Lets don't eat our own candidates when the worst one of all tries to get by...
SWBTATTReg
Apr 2019
#80
I saw it too... seemed more than a lil extreme, but, worried how the average voter will react to it.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#72
It's also turning into an effective way to minimize the MeToo movement as well.
LanternWaste
Apr 2019
#89