Posted on 03/27/2019 3:09:45 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned “a white man’s culture” as he lashed out at violence against women and, more specifically, lamented his role in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings that undermined Anita Hill’s credibility nearly three decades ago.
Biden, a Democratic presidential prospect who often highlights his white working-class roots, said Hill, who is black, should not have been forced to face a panel of “a bunch of white guys” about her sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas.
“To this day I regret I couldn’t come up with a way to give her the kind of hearing she deserved,” he said Tuesday night, echoing comments he delivered last fall as the nation debated sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh amid his Supreme Court confirmation hearing. “I wish I could have done something.”
Biden’s role in the 1991 Thomas confirmation hearings is among his many political challenges as he considers making a 2020 bid for the presidency. Should he run, he would be among a handful of white men in a Democratic presidential field that features several women and minorities.
His comments about Hill drew swift condemnation on social media, with many noting he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time of the hearing.
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"Biden, 76, delivered the remarks at a New York City event honoring young people who helped combat sexual assault on college campuses. The event, held at a venue called the Russian Tea Room, was hosted by the Biden Foundation and the nonprofit group It’s on Us, which Biden founded with former President Barack Obama in 2014.
Biden called on Americans to “change the culture” that dates back centuries and allows pervasive violence against women. “It’s an English jurisprudential culture, a white man’s culture. It’s got to change,” he said. The former vice president also repeatedly denounced violence against women during his remarks, which spanned more than a half-hour. It’s a topic he knows well. As a senator from Delaware, he introduced the Violence Against Women Act in 1990.
“No man has a right to lay a hand on a woman, no matter what she’s wearing, she does, who she is, unless it’s in self-defense. Never,” he said Tuesday.
He then shared a conversation he had with a member of a college fraternity.
“If you see a brother taking an inebriated co-ed up the stairs at a fraternity house and you don’t go and stop it, you’re a damn coward,” Biden said. “You don’t deserve to be called a man.”"
He’s welcome to move to central Africa and live in a thatch hut with a pit latrine and no electricity whenever he wants.
“The event, held at a venue called the Russian Tea Room,”
Collusion.
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lol ........ fitting for these days.
Cause he’s a panderer, oh yeah a panderer, he panders all the little girls.
Ah the drama with which he delivered his speech....well maybe a few were fooled...’Ol Joe is a clever old politician making a lot of noise hoping he and his son won’t have some questions to answer....
... see you in the parking lot, Joe...... after you take Trump out behind the gym and "beat the hell out of him".
Where's Johnny Weissmuller when we need him?
Yup. I was expecting someone to post such a collage.
Sorry Plugs, you’re not fooling anybody.
He then shared a conversation he had with a member of a college fraternity.
“If you see a brother taking an inebriated co-ed up the stairs at a fraternity house and you don’t go and stop it, you’re a damn coward,” Biden said. “You don’t deserve to be called a man.””
Joe Biden lied about Justice Thomas in his opening remarks at the thomas nomination hearings.
F- that bigot Joe Biteme.
Senator Biden was the first questioner. Instead of the softball questions he’d promised to ask, he threw a beanball straight at my head, quoting from a speech I’d given four years earlier at the Pacific Legal Foundation and challenging me to defend what I’d said. ”I find attractive the arguments of scholars such as Stephen Macedo, who defend an activist Supreme Court that would strike down laws restricting property rights.” That caught me off guard, and I had no recollection of making so atypical a statement, which shook me up even more. “Now, it would seem to me what you were talking about,” Senator Biden went on to say, “is you find it attractive the fact that they are activists and they would like to strike down existing laws that impact on restricting the use of property rights, because you know, that is what they write about.”pp 235-236 of "My Grandfather's Son" by Clarence ThomasSince I didn’t remember making the statement in the first place, I didn’t know how to respond to it. All I could say in reply was that “it has been some time since I have read Professor Macedo … But I don’t believe that in my writings I have indicated that we should have an activist Supreme Court.” It was, I knew, a weak answer. Fortunately, though, the young lawyers who had helped prepare me for the hearing had loaded all of my speeches into a computer and at the first break in the proceedings they looked this one up. The senator, they found, had wrenched my words out of context. I looked at the text and saw that the passage he’d read out loud had been immediately followed by two other sentences: “But the libertarian argument overlooks the place of the Supreme Court in a scheme of separation of powers. One does not strengthen self-government and the rule of law by having the non-democratic branch of the government make policy.” The point I’d been making was the opposite of the one that Senator Biden claimed I had made.
Biden should be pressed on this. Yes, the English are a white tribe, but that is irrelevant to the "English jurisprudential culture." What, exactly, does Biden think needs to be changed? The right to a fair trial before a jury of one's peers? The right to confront one's accusers? The right to hear and rebut the evidence against you? The prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures? The right to counsel? No bills of attainder? That English jurisprudential culture? C'mon, Joe: what do you want to change?
>>he said Tuesday night, echoing comments he delivered last fall as the nation debated sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh amid his Supreme Court confirmation hearing. “I wish I could have done something.”
AssPress is doubling down on their stupid witchhunt. Squeaky Fraud LIED!
See the guy looking at his mad friend?
He’s thinking “if this was anyone else”.
That freak.
At least bush just massaged merkel.
Boy was that weird too :) and awkward
Biden is possessed with a case of “white self-loathing”.
Not to mention his obvious pedophile leanings.
I can understand Joe rationale. Us honkies just do not collect enough welfare, pimp, or have holiday drive by shootings
“If you see a brother taking an inebriated co-ed up the stairs ,,,,”
Off hand it sounds kinda racist to me......did he say that in reference to the Clarence Thomas hearings?
Or the Bill Clinton-Paula Jones impeachment vote?
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