Posted on 06/23/2020 5:11:19 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
During a fundraiser on Tuesday with Barack Obama, Joe Biden claimed he watched Bull Connor sic the dogs on demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama when he was in grade school. Okay, that took place in April and May of 1963 when Biden was twenty years old. What happened Joe? Did you flunk about 8 grades in order to be such an old grade schooler. Also since Biden's family moved to Delaware in 1953, he could not have seen Bull Connor in action in Scranton, Pennsylvania as he claimed.
Therefore, Joe's story about watching Bull sounds like... BULL.
Read again what I said. Public appearances and utterances and private thoughts are two different things.
Basicly I think he had figured out that things were going to have to change, but he didn’t know how to do it. He had a tiger by the tail and couldn’t let go.
Look at George Wallace and Lester Maddox in later years.
There was nothing redeeming about Eugene “Bull’’ Connor. He was a violently racist man.
So were George Wallace and Lester Maddox, and they changed.
Why do you think you know what Connor said in private to his friends?
Any man who could turn fire hoses and dogs on people demonstrating for their civil rights isn’t going to be waxing Shakespeare over mint juleps. Why don’t you tell me what he was like in private. Better yet, take a hike.
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