Will VP Biden have to do a "Rev Wright"

[Peacetrain]

news conference and explain why being called son by an older and powerful Democratic senator who held all the keys was dismissive and demeaning.. in response to being called tone deaf and a racist ..??


will he have to have a beer summit in the pizza shop to explain why he had to learn how to work with those he disagreed with to get his legislation through??


Will he be forced to have doctors come forward to explain that he has not lost his ability to reason even with his advanced age..

Lord have mercy.. what next

[George II]

1. No.

[ancianita]

12. Agree. All he has to do is campaign. Everything he says and has done will answer media doubt-

mongering.

[emmaverybo]

26. omg that's good, "media doubt-mongering." Nt

[Gothmog]

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

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Peacetrain]

4. Wow, awesome post by Symone Sanders..

right to the heart of it

[quickesst]

13. Several of the other candidates....

.... should apologize to Joe Biden for standing up and publicly lying about his praising and coddling of segregationists.


https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/734103488/democrats-blast-biden-for-recalling-civil-relationship-with-segregationists

[demosincebirth]

33. I lived in the south for many years during the fifties. Almost every guy that I worked with

believed in the status quo (segregation) at the time. Many were good friends of mime and we'd do favors for each other many times. All of them were democrats (funny isn't it), but they always spoke despairingly about the black people. In those days you just kept your thoughts to yourself about segregation. I had a neighbor who was born in the south and was not a segregationist. He told me often to keep my thoughts to myself about segregation. I came from California at the time and made some good friends, but I kept my mouth shut during the time that I was there. I did have friends there and they have softened their view about the past. Mainly because of their kids and grand kids.

[quickesst]

34. sorry about the late reply

Meant to reply earlier but I had to take a little excursion to the VA emergency room. Turned out okay so here I am back on the gossip box.
I was born in the south , and after a lot of stops up until the 9th grade we moved back and I'm still here. My experience was a little different, but I know exactly where you're coming from. Even though it's a slow change the south is changing. The main thing is, it's changing for the better. Still a lot to do, and we won't get there in my lifetime, but I have pretty high hopes for my grandchildren.

[doc03]

3. Why? He doesn't have a thing to apologize for. He was just making the point

there was a time Republicans and Democrats could work together even though they disagreed on things. Today both sides
are at war and the country is being destroyed by it. We have a dysfunctional government.

[Peacetrain]

6. I was posting with someone in DU the other day, about feeling deja vu

this pulling at every string.. been here before

[pnwmom]

16. How was he making that point by citing the most hateful DEMOCRATS he could think of?

Eastland and Talmadge were both D's, unfortunately.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. No doubt Joe will be asked to splain his controversial comments in his upcoming MTP interview.

If Joe can adequately do so, it shouldn't hurt him too much in the polls.


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[Peacetrain]

8. Well of course.. and he will do fine.. it just here we go again

been here done that got the t shirt.. he really did not say anything controversial.. that is the crazy thing.. he was not praising segregationist.. he was not making a joke about being called boy or son..its like a freaking feeding frenzy on more and more convoluted headlines.. but he will for sure have to address it.. I wonder if they will even ask him about his programs.. wait and see

[JoeOtterbein]

7. No. Joe is not running to be a...

...black POTUS!

[Peacetrain]

9. I kid you not JoeOtterbein.. I bet I left DU at least three times

during that first election.. well since I started posting here in 2008, it was more like I was driven out.. It was tough.. President Obama could not say or do anything that did not bring up outrage here on DU.. whew.. it is not anywhere near as brutal now as it was then.. but sometimes I look in and get this sense of deja vu..

[JoeOtterbein]

10. I know how you feel...

...but I agree things are much better now.

[Peacetrain]

11. Oh yeah.. and that is a good thing for me to keep in mind

[Turin_C3PO]

17. This place used to be far more brutal.

The 2004, 2008, and 2016 primaries were all bloodbaths here.

I hope, in our effort to rid ourselves of America’s greatest threat since the Civil War (Trump), that we stay more civil and united. So far, it’s not too bad here....yet.

[Peacetrain]

19. True that!!

[Skittles]

23. I think it would be better

if Biden supporters stopped telling us he should be our only choice

[Turin_C3PO]

24. I'm not saying that at all.

I’ve criticized Biden in the past few weeks about the Hyde amendment. But there’s certain rhetoric that we shouldn’t use against ANY of our candidates, IMO, because it damages them for the fight against Trump.

[Skittles]

27. rhetoric or truth?

surely everyone knew all kinds of stuff would be thrown at Biden - he's got a looooong history

[Skittles]

14. he is not racist

but he certainly has a way with words that leaves his supporters scrambling to explain

[marylandblue]

15. This. Who even thinks he's a racist? Not many.

Who thinks he put his foot in his mouth? Lots of people.

How does he get out of this bind? I don't know, but certainly not by righteous indignation.

[Skittles]

21. as if Obama would pick a racist to be his VP

it's silly

how does Biden get out of this? Acknowledge that the point he was trying to make was made very, very badly. And then try to avoid doing it again.

[SouthernProgressive]

18. It's all coming.

The real. The made up. Mostly serious deception mixed with a lot of hyperbole.

What’s next? The sky is the limit.

[George II]

20. You know what? I was just watching Anderson Cooper, and he had a BS surrogate Cornell West on...

...talking about this. Two things he said:

1. About Biden saying that he didn't have a racist bone in his body, West said "EVERYBODY has racism inside".
2. He kept referring to Biden as "Brother Biden".

Now, as a top surrogate for the campaign representing BS, shouldn't either he or BS apologize to Biden? It'll never happen.

[Peacetrain]

22. I still have not gotten over how badly Cornell West treated President Obama

I cannot watch him on TV.. The person Cornell West owes an apology to is former President Barack Obama..

[JI7]

25. These attacks would not hurt Biden in the GE. and In fact they would most likely help him in the

General election.

[CentralMass]

28. The background of this is that the main thing he worked with those segregationist senators on was to

kill busing (part of the desegregation effort of the civic rights movement). In 1977 he wrote a letter to Senator James Eastland , who often referred to black people as an "inferior race", thanking him for supporting his anti-bussing legislation.

Senator Jesse Helms, welcomed him to the ranks of the enlightened. Helms btw opposed busing, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. He called the Civil Rights Act of 1964 "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress", and sponsored legislation to either extend it to the entire country or scrap it altogether. In 1982, he voted against the extension of the Voting Rights. He tried, with a 16-day filibuster, to stop the Senate from approving a federal holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

So i am not sure why he is bringing up his ability to work guys like that on legislation of that nature.

[samnsara]

29. im turning off all new media until this circus event calms down...

..i dont even think i can stand to watch the debates. If its going to be candidate bashing i dont want to have anything to do with it. Every time i read a DU headline bashing ANY candidate my stomach starts churning and i really worry about trump getting elected again. I dont care if there are healthy debates as long as at the end we vow to vote for the dem nom and so far im not seeing any of that.

[Honeycombe8]

30. Rev Wright was a totally different situation. nt

[kstewart33]

31. No, no, and no.

This is getting ridiculous.