Discussion: Biden Expresses Regret About Role In Hill Hearings, Condemns 'White Man's Culture'

A few more years of Rethuglican rule, and your kids will be your only option for your old age pension.

Thatā€™s OK, my only child is a patent attorney with a full portfolio of southeast Asia technology accounts. He has trouble just figuring out where to stash all the money.

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Think we can do without Biden handing Fox the dayā€™s GOP talking points.

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Ahem

PM me, letā€™s do lunchā€¦

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Iā€™m reading all these negative comments about Joe Biden. I think all of them are exactly right. Letā€™s trash the person most obviously qualified to be president, so we can elect Trump. After all, if we are good at anything, itā€™s trashing a highly qualified Democratic candidate so we can undercut that candidateā€™s campaign and elect Trump. We were so successful at doing that in 2016, we managed to get Trump elected even though the American people rejected him by 3 million votes. Surely, if we did that once, we (with apologies to the great Ernie Banks), can do it twice.

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Youā€™ll read the same comments from the same commenters after every TPM article concerning Joe Biden. Bless their hearts.

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Reparations and Medicare for All should just about do it.

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Whatever, Joe

If Bidenā€™s candidacy canā€™t make it past the comments section he stands very little chance in a primary battle.

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At the time I was in Vienna for a series of meetings. I missed an entire afternoon of said meetings when the hearing came up on television. The Republicans on the panel were bad enough ā€“ Orrin Hatch and Arlen Specter, for example ā€“ but Joe Biden should have known better. Blaming ā€œWhite Manā€™s Cultureā€ is a cop-out, an attempt to disguise the cozy deal he made with Bush and the Republicans.

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No he didnā€™t. He said he wished there was a way he could have arranged it better but there wasnā€™t. This is a lie. He valued his ill thought out gym pledge to Republican buddy to conduct a speedy hearing more than he valued the welfare of the country and providing a fair hearing to Anita Hill. Heā€™s the guy whom refused to call the witnesses who has similar stories to tell.

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Nobody that age Is the most obviously qualified person. Age is a hazard.

This is a guy who failed to make it through the primaries before. It does not follow that he is a dead certain to win the general.

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Little late, Joe, for those of us who watched the hearings.

You are carrying more baggage than all the rest of our candidates put together. But that follows for someone who has been running since 1980.

Go home and spend time with your wife and your kids.

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Funny about that, he leads all the polls, both among Democrats and in a general election matchup against Trump. I do agree with you that he will need to fight for the nomination and he may not succeed. Thatā€™s fine.

But hereā€™s a cautionary note. Iā€™m old enough to remember a similar circumstance in 1972, when Nixon was vulnerable and the Democrats had a great opponent to nominate to go against him, Ed Muskie. Instead of running him, however, they ran him out of the race because he allowed tears (or was it snowflakes) to show on his cheeks making a speech in snowy New Hampshire where he defended his wife against scurrilous attacks on her. The Democrats went on to nominate an incredibly decent human being - for whom I voted - George McGovern, who was easily painted as being too far left. As I recall, he lost in an historic landslide to a crook seeking re-election, Richard Nixon. But us old guys who remember history just donā€™t cut it with the new, totally self-assured generation of Democrats who are better at social media than in the voting booth. Just saying.

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ok.

Mostly itā€™s us women. Bless your heart for not getting it.

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Wonā€™t be easy for them to paint VP Biden as ā€œbeing too far leftā€ but theyā€™re gonna try to no matter who we nominate.

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Making the obvious point here: This early, polls mean nothing, because itā€™s mostly name recognition. Very few people who arenā€™t political nerds know who the hell ā€œHarrisā€ or ā€œBetoā€ or ā€œButtigiegā€ are, let alone the names that are getting less media attention. That will change.

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I have forgiveness in my heart and Iā€™m 60 years old. Thereā€™s no room for 28 year old resentments in my life.

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I have yet to meet many self-assured Democrats :smile:

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