How desperate and small does a person have to be to promote that VP Biden is a racist

[Peacetrain]

to try and gain traction in the primaries? Mind blowing..

[TCJ70]

1. Who did that? n/t

[DURHAM D]

2. Who said that? nt

[SouthernProgressive]

3. The insinuation is truly pathetic.

Who is currently desperate enough to do such a thing?

[nycbos]

4. I don't think that.

What I think is that the idea that there is a partner in the Republican Party is naive.


And Biden is one of the people I am considering.

[Autumn]

5. Pretty small. Good thing no one on our side is doing that. nt

[pwb]

6. Why repeat it if they did?

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[peggysue2]

7. It's pathetic and ugly

All to score points and jockey for position. Particularly so when we have a self-proclaimed racist squatting in the White House. Insisting this falls under the guise of 'vetting' is equally pathetic. Smearing and vetting are not the same.

[emmaverybo]

22. Crucial point. Smearing is not vetting. NT

[Voltaire2]

8. Tone deaf.

Not a racist. Just can’t stop bragging about working with one.

[R B Garr]

13. Bernie got called on perpetuating this misinformation on

the Velshi and Ruhle show just now. He didn’t appreciate being corrected and had a nasty temper flare. Not a good look.

But Biden wasn’t “bragging” about working with segregationists.

[Voltaire2]

15. He actually does brag about exactly that.

He appears to think it makes him look like somebody who can get things done.

[R B Garr]

19. Bernie just had a meltdown trying to perpetuate that

misinformation and smear.

[ehrnst]

16. He never deals well with being corrected or fact checked. (nt)

[R B Garr]

18. Exactly! He does not like follow-up questions and being

challenged. He has his one note and that’s it.

[ehrnst]

20. Very old school, establishment white male style of interaction. (nt)

[Gothmog]

9. I hate it when I agree with Morning Joe

Link to tweet

[babylonsister]

10. He was also warned off mentioning them

but did not take his own staff's advice. Maybe he will next time.

[R B Garr]

14. They were a perfect example of the worst of the worst.

It’s only the intentional distortion that is the problem, but some of those perpetrators are getting called on the lies now.

[R B Garr]

17. Thanks for posting this, Gothmog. It's pretty ridiculous

when the media has to correct intentional lies and distortions like this.

[emmaverybo]

21. Misinterpreting Joe's comments and spinning them into an endorsement for virulent racists is not

an act of ignorance, but intentional. Joe’s intent could not have been more obvious.

Joe’s full throated support for civil rights for all has been a part of his political profile for decades.

That he is not the standard bearer for a more left-leaning Democratic party, does not endorse a raft of social programs progressives propose, makes him, as a frontrunning moderate, an obstacle
to be overcome on the path to transforming the democratic political landscape.

I hope Joe does not start playing defense for sins he has not committed. To do so will only
confirm these willful misinterpretations and outright lies (he mocked sexual abuse; he gropes little girls; he and Obama never engaged in bi-partisan legislation; he doesn’t stand up against racism).

No other candidate made the fight against white supremacy his theme right out of the gate.

[Duppers]

24. Thank you!! Nt

[phandancer917]

26. Biden's Gaffes

Imagine if someone with an 'R' next to their name said this:

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man." (referring to then Senator Obama in 2007)

[emmaverybo]

28. Put a comma after African American. But if this gaffe did not bother Obama, I am not

making Biden into a racist over it.

[TeamPooka]

27. Bidens problem

Biden’s problem Is that he is saying he can “work with these types of Republican when our party leaders should be saying “we need to vote these kind of people out of office forever.”
This “why can’t we just get along with the Republicans” kind of attitude after the Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat, not to mention their 100% obstructionist tendencies through his term as VP should have put him in a place to be able to say that.
I don’t wanna work with Republicans anymore, I want to destroy them politically and electorally for the next 25 years

[emmaverybo]

30. The best way to destroy the Republican Party is to get rid of Trump. Without the magahat cult,

they don’t have the numbers. This is why they put up with Trump. In the end, he will bring them down. But I’d like him gone in 2020.

[TeamPooka]

31. The GOP was Trump before Trump ran for President. They stole the SCOTUS seat before he

was president.
The problem is Republicans, not just Trump as their uber self.

[emmaverybo]

34. But they were a dwindling party within the electorate. I am not saying they are any different than

Trump although they don’t dare as overtly present their racism and heartlessness to the public. They do that through draconian and anti-democratic policies and their inaction and silence on any issues that might help Americans, on social justice, civil rights, economic equality, health care, immigration reform...
My point is simply that they are a dying party, kept alive by a cult figure who has recruited
fresh and poisoned blood.
But we are always going to have an adversarial system of governing. That, opposing views and mind-sets will offer challenges well in to the future.

[Politicub]

11. I saw that post. It was outrageous.

[sarabelle]

12. Pretty small and pretty desperate..as the candidate who jump all over this when there are more

important issues to challenge Biden on. But the main thing is that Trump must be defeated in 2020. We will not be able to do this repeating the mistakes of the past or staying united on every front.

Many young black and other voters stayed home in 2016 over the fake scandal about HRC and the Crime Bill and the "predator" remarks. We are about to repeat the mistakes of the past and allow others to sway our efforts because the primary candidate of our choice did not win. We absolutely cannot afford to do this again.

[stonecutter357]

23. K&R

[40RatRod]

25. I see the circular firing squad has started. SAD

[TryLogic]

29. I don't think it is circular. Just one (or a few) sad players.

Uphold our values.

[pnwmom]

32. I haven't seen anyone even suggest he is a racist. But no one can argue

that he's not prone to gaffes.

Some people actually find this endearing.

[zentrum]

33. Excuse me?

It's not about being a "racist". It's about not understanding how racism works. It's about lacking the self-examination of what white privilege means, day to day.

"Boy" is a freighted word. Do you have any idea what Eastman called Black people? It's too vile to quote on DU. This hurtful, harmful person is Joe's example of "civility"? Civil to whom?

Joe is not a deep down classic racist like Strom Thurmond, whose segregation policies he supported---it's about being tone deaf in a way that actually harms progress. He does racist things and doesn't even know it---all the while supporting civil rights. It's just not good enough.

And let's not get started on Anita Hill. Next thing you'll be saying we're saying "Joe hates women". No. But Joe doesn't get it and is part of the problem. He's got White Male Privilege Syndrome---a very dangerous condition.

I'm sure you're big enough to see the difference.

[Gothmog]

35. According to Symone Sanders, Biden did not praise a segregationist

Link to tweet

Link to tweet