Fair enough. Then let us look at his record on race..
It’s a mystery, though, why Biden keeps demanding everyone to look at his “record” on race, which is terrible.
As a freshman, Senator Biden, by his own account, formed friendly, sometimes obsequious, relationships with segregationists within the Democratic Party. It was Biden who sought out J. William Fulbright and Jim Eastland, who in turn assigned him seats on the powerful judicial and foreign-relations committees. The Delaware freshman, who had lucked into a post-Watergate seat, had absolutely no relevant experience for the latter and little for the former. Yet Biden benefited in ways that other younger Democrats, less inclined to ally themselves with racists, did not.
Biden is on record praising George Wallace on numerous occasions. Biden is on the record flattering Strom Thurmond — his “closest friend” — on numerous occasions, as well, and in ways that would have ended the career of any Republican. Just ask Trent Lott.
Biden might have later claimed to have “marched in the civil-rights movement” (he didn’t) and to have represented Black Panthers (he almost surely didn’t), but in reality he was one of the leading voices in the Democratic Party opposing busing reforms. Now, we can debate the usefulness of busing, but there is no debate over whether Biden said that without “orderly integration” his children would be growing up “in a racial jungle.”
Biden also led a decades-long legislative effort to pass tough-on-crime laws that culminated in his co-writing the 1994 crime bill. Critics, mostly contemporary Democrats, argue that the law helped create a mass-incarceration regime that disproportionately affects African Americans. We can debate the effectiveness of the policy, but Biden can’t claim he didn’t brag that the bill does “everything but hang people for jaywalking.” The future vice president was calling it the “Biden Crime Law” on his 2008 presidential campaign website.
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A few points if I may...
1. Biden's record is his weakness. It's his weakness on any issue because the dude is an anachronism. He's out-of-step with the times.
2. Given his racist record I cannot believe Sen. Clyburn endorsed Biden.
3. If not for Clyburn's endorsement we'd be looking at a socialist (Bernie Sanders) vs. Trump.
4. Biden selected as running mate the most radical progressive in the Senate (Harris).
5. Biden signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Sanders, adopting a socialist agenda...
a. Expanding Medicare to age 60
b. Eliminating private prisons
c. Ending cash bail
d. Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences
e. Moving all electric power off fossil fuels by 2035; achieving carbon-neutrality in all new buildings by 2030; and installing 500 million solar panels in the next five years.
f. A comprehensive agenda for communities of color with ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based disparities
g. Schools as community centers that provide a broad array of social services, such as health care and meals
h. Tripling federal aid for low-income schools
i. Public universities should be free for families earning under $125,000 per year, and that community colleges should be free for all
j. Maintain protections for about 700,000 young immigrants known as Dreamers from deportation
k. End a program that forced more than 60,000 migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum cases wound through immigration courts
l. Increase the number of refugees who can be allowed into the United States to 125,000 per year, from Trump’s level of 18,000, and raise that cap over time
m. Ending the national emergency declaration that Trump has used to siphon billions of dollars in Pentagon funding for a wall along the southwestern border
n. Increasing oversight of immigration enforcement and border agencies with the creation of an ombudsman and a panel
Sounds rather innocuous, yes?
j. - m. is precisely why Trump won in 2016!
n. amounts to a civilian police oversight panel, which many cities now have.
Seniors should be scared shitless of a. because it will dilute their quality of care.
e. is essentially New Green Deal because of unrealistic timelines and lack of technology to achieve it.
We see how well c. is working on NYC!
And finally f. is throwing good money after bad.
Summation- if Biden's policy hasn't lurched left towards socialism then your momma is a werewolf.
Thank you.
It’s a mystery, though, why Biden keeps demanding everyone to look at his “record” on race, which is terrible.
As a freshman, Senator Biden, by his own account, formed friendly, sometimes obsequious, relationships with segregationists within the Democratic Party. It was Biden who sought out J. William Fulbright and Jim Eastland, who in turn assigned him seats on the powerful judicial and foreign-relations committees. The Delaware freshman, who had lucked into a post-Watergate seat, had absolutely no relevant experience for the latter and little for the former. Yet Biden benefited in ways that other younger Democrats, less inclined to ally themselves with racists, did not.
Biden is on record praising George Wallace on numerous occasions. Biden is on the record flattering Strom Thurmond — his “closest friend” — on numerous occasions, as well, and in ways that would have ended the career of any Republican. Just ask Trent Lott.
Biden might have later claimed to have “marched in the civil-rights movement” (he didn’t) and to have represented Black Panthers (he almost surely didn’t), but in reality he was one of the leading voices in the Democratic Party opposing busing reforms. Now, we can debate the usefulness of busing, but there is no debate over whether Biden said that without “orderly integration” his children would be growing up “in a racial jungle.”
Biden also led a decades-long legislative effort to pass tough-on-crime laws that culminated in his co-writing the 1994 crime bill. Critics, mostly contemporary Democrats, argue that the law helped create a mass-incarceration regime that disproportionately affects African Americans. We can debate the effectiveness of the policy, but Biden can’t claim he didn’t brag that the bill does “everything but hang people for jaywalking.” The future vice president was calling it the “Biden Crime Law” on his 2008 presidential campaign website.
Biden Says We Should Look at His Record on Race. It Doesn’t Help His Case | National Review
Has there been any presidential candidate in memory who so openly took the black vote for granted?
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A few points if I may...
1. Biden's record is his weakness. It's his weakness on any issue because the dude is an anachronism. He's out-of-step with the times.
2. Given his racist record I cannot believe Sen. Clyburn endorsed Biden.
3. If not for Clyburn's endorsement we'd be looking at a socialist (Bernie Sanders) vs. Trump.
4. Biden selected as running mate the most radical progressive in the Senate (Harris).
5. Biden signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Sanders, adopting a socialist agenda...
a. Expanding Medicare to age 60
b. Eliminating private prisons
c. Ending cash bail
d. Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences
e. Moving all electric power off fossil fuels by 2035; achieving carbon-neutrality in all new buildings by 2030; and installing 500 million solar panels in the next five years.
f. A comprehensive agenda for communities of color with ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based disparities
g. Schools as community centers that provide a broad array of social services, such as health care and meals
h. Tripling federal aid for low-income schools
i. Public universities should be free for families earning under $125,000 per year, and that community colleges should be free for all
j. Maintain protections for about 700,000 young immigrants known as Dreamers from deportation
k. End a program that forced more than 60,000 migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum cases wound through immigration courts
l. Increase the number of refugees who can be allowed into the United States to 125,000 per year, from Trump’s level of 18,000, and raise that cap over time
m. Ending the national emergency declaration that Trump has used to siphon billions of dollars in Pentagon funding for a wall along the southwestern border
n. Increasing oversight of immigration enforcement and border agencies with the creation of an ombudsman and a panel
6 takeaways from the Biden-Sanders joint policy proposals
The new policy recommendations for Joe Biden, crafted jointly by allies of Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt, are the clearest sign yet that the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party were trying to unite far more than they did in 2016. But the ideas put forth on Wednesday are...
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Sounds rather innocuous, yes?
j. - m. is precisely why Trump won in 2016!
n. amounts to a civilian police oversight panel, which many cities now have.
Seniors should be scared shitless of a. because it will dilute their quality of care.
e. is essentially New Green Deal because of unrealistic timelines and lack of technology to achieve it.
We see how well c. is working on NYC!
And finally f. is throwing good money after bad.
Summation- if Biden's policy hasn't lurched left towards socialism then your momma is a werewolf.
Thank you.
