Biden says he's "changed" since his days in the Senate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In a new campaign speech, former Vice President Joe Biden will say that he has "changed" since he entered the Senate in the 1970s, according to excerpts provided by his campaign. Biden will speak to supporters during a campaign stop in Sumter, S.C., on Saturday.

Biden, who is 76, has been criticized for his age and political positions earlier in his career.

"America in 2019 is a very different place than the America of the 1970s. And that's a good thing. I've witnessed an incredible amount of change in this nation and I've worked to make that change happen. And yes — I've changed also," the excerpt said.

Biden will also push back against criticism against his time in the Senate by noting his service as vice president to President Obama, who remains very popular in the Democratic Party and among black Democratic voters in particular.

"If you look at the issues I've been attacked on, nearly every one of them is for something well before 2008. It's as if my opponents want you to believe I served from 1972 until 2008 — and then took the next eight years off. They don't want to talk much about my time as vice president," the excerpt said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-says-hes-changed-since-his-days-in-the-senate/ar-AADWFxT?li=BBnb7Kz

[SunSeeker]

1. That's what he should have said at the debate. nt

[Hortensis]

2. Over 50 years as the entire world has changed?

Of course he did. He’s no rigid extremist unable to develop new understandings of changing realities.

I once wrote him off for president, after the Clarence Thomas hearings and federal three strikes law.

But Obama thinks extremely well of him and gave him various important roles in his administration, working closely with him for eight years, and I trust his judgment and knowledge of Biden.

The Republican Party is no longer what it was in the 1970s and 1980s, even the 1990s, morphing into a RW extremist existential threat, the worst version of itself.

Biden has been faced with that grave danger for some time now, and I believe he’s 100% correct when he says that reconnecting with decent conservatives and rebuilding a working majority to fight the right wing extremists who’ve taken over the GOP is the most critically important thing we must do.

[Blue_true]

3. My carved in stone standard on courage.

Courageous people are ones that make the right choice at a time when they can lose much and when they have a choice of doing what is right, or doing what is expedient.

I am not impressed by the choices people make when they really don't have a choice. During the seventies, the Democratic Party were more liberal and in states like Delaware and Maryland more Black people stared having their voice heard at the ballot box, so personal political change was not necessarily by choice.

[aikoaiko]

4. He did make great memes with Obama.

I’ll give him that.

[NBachers]

5. The quotation marks around "changed" imply skepticism. I take it you are skeptical also?

joe

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. That was copy/pasted from the article

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I didn't put the quotation marks there.

[NBachers]

7. So you have no responsibility in pushing the implication here?

[delisen]

8. Biden is the one who has to talk about his more recent service. He should

just go right ahead and provide details. I think people will want to listen and learn.

[Kind of Blue]

9. Well, we know 45 is not stupid enough to challenge 8 years of vice presidency

when there's almost a 40-year Senate record we're sifting thru now and at least 2 failed attempts at the presidency.