Posted on 06/20/2019 4:04:18 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Creepy Uncle Joe steps in it again. – Joe Biden’s status as the Unfrozen Caveman Senator in the Democrat presidential race took another ugly turn this week when, in a Tuesday fundraising speech in New York, Biden praised former segregationist Democrat senators he served with waaaaayyyyyy back in the ’70s like Herman Talmage and James Eastland. This naturally set off a round of shameless virtue-signaling from his white opponents and fits of moral outrage from his black opponents – Corey Booker and Kamala Harris – who have made a career of trading on identity politics.
So, what did the nation’s Creepy Uncle say that was so offensive? Here’s how the fake reporters at the AP characterize it in their piece this morning:
The controversy began at a New York fundraiser Tuesday when Biden pointed to long-dead segregationist senators James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia to argue that Washington functioned more smoothly a generation ago than under today’s “broken” hyperpartisanship.
“We didn’t agree on much of anything,” Biden said of the two men, who were prominent senators when Biden was elected in 1972. Biden described Talmadge as “one of the meanest guys I ever knew” and said Eastland called him “son,” though not “boy,” a reference to the racist way many whites addressed black men at the time.
Booker, Harris and all their white companions desperate to grab a share of the “black vote”, as the Democrats love to call it, rushed to condemn Biden for praising segregationists for being “civil.” But of course, the trouble with that criticism is that that part of what Biden said was actually true – the U.S. Senate of the ’70s did exhibit a remarkable level of bipartisanship and civility in addressing issues, especially when compared with the hyperpartisan crap show we see in the “world’s greatest deliberative body” today.
But if Biden’s virtue-signaling, moral outrage-expressing opponents had a lick of sense and honesty – which we know they don’t since they’re all Democrats – they’d attack him for the blatant outright lie that truly stands out in those two AP paragraphs, which is his statement that “We didn’t agree on much of anything.”
My goodness. That took some nerve.
What was the litmus test on de-segregation when Biden took office in the senate back in 1973? Forced busing. Along with all the old Democrat segregationists in the senate at that time, like Talmadge, Eastland, Howell Heflin, Ernest Hollings, Sam Ervin and Robert Byrd, who was one of the loudest, most aggressive opponent of forced busing? If you said Joe Biden, you would be correct.
See, schools in the northeast during those years were every bit as segregated as those in the southern states. Indeed, Biden made his fierce opposition to forced busing a centerpiece of his initial campaign for the senate. It is fair to credit that position on that key issue largely for his election to the senate in the first place.
Then there was Biden’s ardent opposition to that other litmus test for helping the nation’s African American population at that time, racial quotas in hiring and school admissions, which proponents like to call “Affirmative Action.” Like his southern senate colleagues, Good ol’ Joe was also dead set against those as well.
Don’t believe me? Here is what he told a Delaware reporter in 1975:
“I do not buy the concept, popular in the ‘60s, which said, ‘We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race.’ I don’t buy that. I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation. And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.”
Interesting quotes, huh? Especially interesting in light of yesterday’s shameful Democrat-staged hearing in the House on reparations.
Here’s the truth about Joe Biden: He agreed with the ’70s-era southern Democrat segregationists about pretty much everything, and wasn’t real shy about saying so at the time. Of course, everyone’s political views change over time, and Biden is no doubt no exception.
But this long record of publicly spouting off and all those thousands of votes he took over 36 years in the Senate are, as I keep trying tell everyone, a very big and real problem for Biden, and a big reason why he ultimately will not be the party’s nominee in 2020. It will be a long, slow death by 1,000 cuts. There are literally dozens more really bad days still to come for Biden, days when the media and his opponents will hit him with all the stupid stuff he said back in the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and ’00s.
Even the ’10s, come to think of it, because saying stupid stuff has always been Joe Biden’s real stock in trade, and in that, he has definitely not evolved.
That is all.
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Nope. The media will cover for him if he is the nominee. It will be completely up to his opponents to shine the light on him.
Oh, and the way he came out against affirmative action makes him sound reasonable. Only those who believe that minorities are intrinsically incapable (I.e. leftists) would find fault, and they won’t use that against him.
Yes, IF he’s the nominee. But he won’t be the nominee, because they aren’t going to cover for him when he’s being attacked by Warren, Harris and Buttigieg.
Yep. Long knives are out for Ol Joe
He’s a gaffe machine. Biden can “work across the aisle” with racist DEMOCRATS. LOL.
Forget about Joe‘s past he’s a blow up artist. He can’t help himself the program has been written. The other day Joe told donors will have to use brass knuckles on Mitch McConnell or physical violence. Joe cannot change 77 years of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Mental jujitsu is not Joe’s forte. Trump is holding back on Joe. Once the other candidates to realize they’re not running for class president Joe is going to become target number one.
When Dick Durbin praised Robert Byrd upon his death saying "Senator Byrd carried a copy of our Constitution close to his heart every day. It was a constant reminder of his life's mission to honor the values which gave us this great nation," Durbin was hailed for his tribute of a Senate icon.
When a Republican says that a Dixiecrat would have made a good president, he's endorsing slavery.
When a Democrat says that a former KKK leader's "life's mission [is] to honor the values which gave us this great nation," why isn't that Democrat called out for endorsing racist KKK values?
-PJ
In my humble opinion antifa is an extension of the KKK hoods and all. We don’t have to look backwards it’s right in front of our faces today. Antifa=KKK
‘Cuz if the Media and the Demonicrats didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
Forced busing destroyed a lot of schools and neighborhoods. It was one of the worst things foisted upon America by the ruling elite.
The current frontrunner, Slow-Joe, talked about 'reaching across the aisle' to bigoted segregationists IN HIS OWN PARTY.
Barry Soetoro, the clean and articulate, good looking black man with great creases in his suit pants, did a re-election fundraising letter for Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd, former Grand Kleagle of the KKK.
Both cases show how out of step the bigoted Democrats have been. But, Orange Man Bad!
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