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Joe Biden in 1987: ‘We (Delawareans) Were on the South’s Side in the Civil War’
Rolling Stone ^ | 7/19/2019 | Andy Kroll & Jamil Smith

Posted on 07/19/2019 4:09:09 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...

On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Biden’s surfaced courtesy of the Trump campaign’s opposition research team

Since entering the presidential race, former Vice President Joe Biden has faced repeated questions about past statements he’s made criticizing school busing, fondly remembering racist white senators, and helping pass draconian laws in the ill-conceived drug war.

On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Biden’s surfaced courtesy of the Trump campaign’s opposition research team. A September 20, 1987, story in the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Biden had bragged about receiving an award from George Wallace, the former Alabama governor and one of America’s most notorious segregationists.

The same story went to quote a presidential primary campaign speech Biden had given in Alabama in which he said “we (Delawareans) were on the South’s side in the Civil War.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama; US: Delaware; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: alabama; andykroll; biden; clowncar; creepyjoe; creepysleepyjoe; creepyunclebiden; creepyunclejoe; delaware; elections; georgewallace; jamilsmith; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; pennsylvania; philadelphia; rollingstone; trump
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To: Its All Over Except ...
Biden/Sanders 2020: 'Older than Trump, so young people vote for us. When you are our age, you wished you knew America when it was Great!' 😀
41 posted on 07/19/2019 7:07:00 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: FirstFlaBn

I will refine that.

Ports below the Mason-Dixon and anything along the Mississippi River.

I challenge any young FReeper to understand that.


42 posted on 07/19/2019 7:14:38 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: FirstFlaBn

Not meant for you. :>)


43 posted on 07/19/2019 7:17:51 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Its All Over Except ...

I doubt that the CSA army would want anything to do with him - Lol


44 posted on 07/19/2019 7:21:39 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Coincidentally, I have been reading John Keegan’s book about the Civil War, and there was a strong secessionist sentiment in Delaware. Of course you can’t actually say real history out loud like this in the modern world.


45 posted on 07/19/2019 7:46:00 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: Its All Over Except ...

What’s this we crap. Biden is from Pennsylvania.


46 posted on 07/19/2019 8:26:33 PM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

What’s this we crap. Biden is from Pennsylvania.


47 posted on 07/19/2019 8:26:34 PM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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To: deweyfrank

Yea for 10 years.....


48 posted on 07/19/2019 8:43:26 PM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: Mr. Lucky

Uncle Joe got it partly right. Delaware was one of several slave owning states that fought on the side of the Union. We had slaves in the state for several years after the war as our legislature tried to get the Feds to cough up money to buy out slaves. We had a slave house here on the farm [which was established in 1850] and there were rooms in the main house that we are sure were used by house slaves in that era.

We also had a prison camp for southerners at Fort Delaware which is an island in the middle of the Delaware River up by New Castle. It wasn’t as bad as Andersonville run by the Confederates, but a lot of rebels died there.

Of course, the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t effect Delaware slaves since we were in the union and it didn’t apply to us.


49 posted on 07/19/2019 8:51:51 PM PDT by Hartlyboy
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To: Its All Over Except ...

And Delaware has a little stooge like senator named “Coon”. How racist is that?

I’m so PC sensitive that I changed the name of my Maine Coon cat to a Jewish one, “Main Cohen Katz” just to be safe.

Now when I call him, it is in Yiddish. “Commin ze hind my Kittzle Fluffy”.

You don’t want to know what he says in reply.


50 posted on 07/19/2019 10:33:40 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: jeffersondem

All of Delaware’s civil war units were union units.


51 posted on 07/19/2019 10:58:35 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

[ Joe Biden in 1987: ‘We (Delawareans) Were on the South’s Side in the Civil War’ ]

If a liberal rag like Rolling Stone is taking down Biden.....

It is gonna be Hildabeast 3.7?


52 posted on 07/19/2019 11:18:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: 1217Chic

He didn’t do a damn thing for Delaware. He abandoned the State and chose to launch his campaign in Pennsylvania. They can have him.


53 posted on 07/20/2019 5:09:00 AM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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To: Its All Over Except ...
"Or do you think another possibility is the Trump team trying to drag out the Dem primary process as long as possible and make Dem candidates create a circular firing squad?"

Oh for sure he's baiting #Karamela to hurt Biden up to March 4, 2020. I think the Left will be so hurtass when Biden wraps this up early 2020 that Biden as the Dem nominee will face a far-Left independent like Tom Steyer, or whoever Steyer can get as a stand-in.

Then imagine if Jill Stein doesn't run on the Green Party slate, and they get AOC.

54 posted on 07/20/2019 6:47:25 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: rktman

Turns out Joe-Six pack is the son of a wealthy (upper-middle class) new car dealer.

And his smear of the truck driver “He drank his lunch” was really out of bounds. Police report said no alcohol was involved. Did Joe ever apologize?


55 posted on 07/20/2019 6:53:24 AM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

The Rolling Stone continues to suck.

The Lust in the Heart of Rolling Stone [“jovial sexual harassment”]
Spencer Kornhaber
Nov 15, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/jann-wenner-rolling-stone-sticky-fingers-allegations/545699/

Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner on Coming Out to Wife of 26 Years: Inside the Drugs and Infidelity that Plagued the Pair
By Sam Gillette
October 26, 2017
https://people.com/music/rolling-stone-jann-wenner-coming-out-to-wife-drugs-infidelity-new-biography/


56 posted on 07/20/2019 7:49:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Uncle Joe

57 posted on 07/20/2019 7:55:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Now that is gonna be a broadside.

The NPCs are likely on it by now.


58 posted on 07/20/2019 8:32:55 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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IF Trump is a racist for saying the Squad should go back where they came and fix their problems, then Biden saying he is a Southerner certainly is racist.

Once you open the door that almost anything is racist, then it can backfire BIGLY!

59 posted on 07/20/2019 9:35:01 AM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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Knowing how smart Joe Biden is, I would have expected him to refer to his fellow First Staters as Delawarites.


60 posted on 07/20/2019 9:43:14 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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