Posted on 06/16/2020 10:25:47 AM PDT by Libloather
Former Vice President Joe Biden is facing renewed scrutiny about his stance on the death penalty amid a re-surfaced video from the '90s in which he boasted that sweeping crime legislation he helped write did “everything but hang people for jaywalking.”
The 2020 presidential hopeful is struggling to thread the needle between embracing his decades-long experience in the Senate, where he gained a reputation as a centrist Democrat, and connecting with a party base that has moved increasingly left on numerous issues including law and order.
On top of controversial remarks this week over his past work with segregationist senators, comments talking up the 1994 crime bill risk exposing the primary front-runner as out of step with modern-day Democrats.
In the 1992 remarks, Biden was trying to battle accusations that the bill was “weak” on crime.
“Let me tell you what is in the bill, and I’ll let you all decide whether or not this is ‘weak,’” he said.
“It provides 53 death penalty offenses, as weak as can be, you know? We do everything but hang people for jaywalking in this bill -- that’s weak stuff,” he said sarcastically.
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And, if he’s elected President, he will rectify that shortcoming.
The Bubba Clinton invisible officer force. Which sounded good but never materialized. I wonder where all the funding went ?
So, he'd be all set with either Harris or Klobuchar as a running mate -- because any nitwit who'd vote for Biden in the first clearly doesn't care about their baggage, either.
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Biden himself attempted to ‘lynch’ Clarence Thomas.
Democrat/Leftist racism ... When will it end ?
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So what are you trying to get me to vote for him?
This wasn’t a bad thing, but okay. you want to use to to what...show he’s strong on crime and therefore get all the whites and BLM mad at him?
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