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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: I will NOT suffer the Al Frankening of Joe Biden...a rant *UPDATED* [View all]Gothmog
(145,951 posts)196. 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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I will NOT suffer the Al Frankening of Joe Biden...a rant *UPDATED* [View all]
Baltimike
Apr 2019
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But "Dems [slowly kissing] each other in the back" of the head is okay?! I see... a lotta women will
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#8
That's EXACTLY what Flores reported... Warren, Castro, Klobuchar & Booker believe her...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#18
Sorry, but, it was a BIG SLOW kiss to the back of the head that Flores reported.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#77
That was a slight, unintentional error on my part that I readily admit & corrected..
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#135
Oh okay, didn't mean to imply you did, my bad... I assume then we can AGREE that a "BIG SLOW kiss"
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#73
Well, if you're calling it a "fantasy," and it actually happened, what are you saying?
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#72
He came up from behind and it was a "big slow kiss." Where did you get your wrong statement?
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#167
You sound like you are getting ready to write a Brazile by the Fireplace story. NT
WeekiWater
Apr 2019
#13
Not women who know what sexual assault is and don't want to see a decent man taken down with
Demsrule86
Apr 2019
#14
I didn't know the #MeToo movement is now restricted to sexual assault... when was it redefined?!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#79
Nobody's saying (that I've seen) that they don't believe her. Just that it's not worth the fuss. n
LAS14
Apr 2019
#88
Where have you been?!?! A LOT of people are saying Lucy Flores is a liar with a political agenda.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#91
It was the back of the head on Friday, after the height difference was noticed....
George II
Apr 2019
#162
Don't forget, David Sirota said a month or two after he started working for Sanders....
George II
Apr 2019
#186
I admire Warren and Booker... and now Castro and Klobuchar for saying #MeToo and
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#86
And it works to destroy all our candidates like you now saying two of them are maybe off
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2019
#3
The number of candidates who now believe and support Flores in coming forward I think is up to five.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#87
So, you're sayin just because Joe's a top contender for the nomination, they're all wrong?!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#113
ONE candidate ONE person is sending out HIT TEAMS on all democratic candidates
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2019
#144
We better stop this shit or we may be looking at another four years with the Orange Glob.
demosincebirth
Apr 2019
#145
This is FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE and here we sit UNABLE to call out who is doing this
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2019
#149
I have PLEADED with the gods to WAKE UP to what is going on, but no dice
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2019
#178
I do...we need to stand with women who bravely come forward. I'm glad to see 5 Democratic candidates
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#92
Ok, so he's not a stranger. And you're right again. Teen girls don't like when old men touch them.
Demit
Apr 2019
#80
How does Joe not know this?! If this was Bernie, you'd see post after post
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#98
Coons, D-Del., spoke to the Washington Post on Saturday about a photo of his daughter at his 2015..
Cha
Apr 2019
#115
Forgive me if I don't give 100% credence to a father presuming to speak for what his daughter felt.
Demit
Apr 2019
#49
You're right, I don't. But I look at that picture, and also I remember being a young girl.
Demit
Apr 2019
#100
Seems obvious to me... why doesn't Joe just come out and admit he shouldn't be doing that.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#90
"uncomfortable" because a man sniffed her hair. Did she Really HEAR the sniff??? I. DOUBT. IT.
trueblue2007
Apr 2019
#26
That's SO funny! Yeah, let's disparage & ridicule women like Flores who bravely come forward...nice!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#150
Joe did not just sniff her hair, as I'm sure you know... he gave Flores a BIG, LONG kiss to the back
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#136
Amy is absolutely right... that doesn't mean Joe is necessarily wrong here
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#95
Trump is the ultimate beneficiary. He can turn his misogynistic actions into whataboutism in 2020.
jalan48
Apr 2019
#28
Totally agree. Why don't people seem to know the difference between affecton and assault?
pdsimdars
Apr 2019
#44
But the situation is the same; innocent behavior being twisted and portrayed as predatory and vile
LongtimeAZDem
Apr 2019
#83
Governor Ralph Northam, and Lieutenant Gov. Justin Fairfax of VA did it right
LiberalLovinLug
Apr 2019
#82
Maybe Warren IS considering the facts... believing Flores is just a part of those facts.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#99
You are not waiting for anything. You are working this thread for all it's worth. Might you ...
Persondem
Apr 2019
#143
I do love Bernie, true... but that has ZIP to with my views on Joe. And, yes, I AM willing to wait
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2019
#147
Please don't reduce this to a "did we believe Flores." She doesn't have to be lying....
LAS14
Apr 2019
#89
Biden Advisers Think Bernie Sanders Is Behind The Allegations Of Inappropriate Behavior
Gothmog
Apr 2019
#101
That point has been discussed hours ago. They have no more basis in fact than the headline trolls do
Ford_Prefect
Apr 2019
#105
Thank You for Posting This Baltimike. I want Dem Voters to wake the f**k up too.
Indykatie
Apr 2019
#137
I'm with you all the way, Baltimike! Enough! This is without a doubt an attempt to Franken him.
Honeycombe8
Apr 2019
#139
He shouldn't fold. He should simply say, "To anyone I've made uncomfortable, I'm sorry."
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#169