"I'm not sorry for anything I have ever done." - Joe Biden, three weeks ago
Of course, I'm being a bit curt and taking that slightly (and only slightly) out of context, but Biden has not changed and evolved. He is who he has always been. He got on the Obama ticket in no small part because Israel demanded the DNC put in a VP who would assuage their racist fears that Obama wasn't anti-Palestine enough, and wanted a true believer on board. And then he wore aviators and grinned next to Obama for eight years until everyone agreed "yes, you've earned having a cool black friend, you're a good guy now."
And honestly, how is your argument here any different than other arguments about how racism wasn't really bad "back then" because that's "just how things were"? Fuck that. The crime bill was racist as shit. Yet another example of the Democrats being Pragmatic Compromisers who Respect Bipartisanship ... which meant throwing under the bus every demographic they knew they could without ceding votes to the GOP.
Joe Biden is a terrible candidate and would make an even worse president.
Hilarious. So you take a comment of his completely out of context. The question he was answering was about his "contact" with some female colleagues over the years. In a 45 plus lifetime in politics, two women stated that his close contact made them feel uncomfortable, because he was acting too "familiar", but it wasn't sexual. He said that he was sorry that it made them feel uncomfortable, he would change how he interacted going forward and would listen, and understand more that he knows that it could be a problem.
The crime bill was was voted for by Bernie Sanders and 72% of Democrats as well. You can take any law or bill or action 25 years later and see its failings. But at the time, it was action that 75% of the American public supported.
Headache posted the other day that the only ones that will beat the Democrats are Democrats. And here we are. The one guy that can easily take back every midwest and rustbelt state that Hillary failed to, and we are going to go back 25, 30, 40 years to pick apart every decision (except Sanders of course, his bad votes and decisions are excluded) he made and view it in the lens of our overall societal view in 2019.
For once, lets just get the worst human to breathe oxygen out of office, and then we can move on to bickering over "true progressive" credentials.
Because if we are going to go into the past to judge the current candidates, then there are no true progressives. Bernie surely doesn't hold up, Mayor Pete surely isn't, Warren was a Republican most of her life, so throw her in the progressive trash pile. Harris was a prosecutor that made a lot of decisions that the progressive keyboard warriors wouldn't look kindly on, so she's out.
It's so ridiculous what my party has devolved into. We can't let ourselves have a win and make some progress. Keep the entire judicial system from being ravaged by a an orange maniac and a grumpy turtle looking mother fucker, as they continue to pack the courts with young right wing lifetime appointments.
Perspective and common sense is all i ask.