The guy is a compulsive diddler. How anyone — even the most virulent lefty — could support Biden is an utter and complete mystery.
Ha!!
The only time Biden ever soars is if there’s a wayward eleven year old girl heading towards a water park.
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Biden 1973 not a fan of reparations: “I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather ... And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.”
5 minutes later and the article is gone, disappeared, yanked, etc.
He doesn’t like to apologize either.
Maybe his wife will tell blacks she’s getting him in line.
They will forgive him because he’s not Trump.
That’s all that matters these days.
I just HOPE he’s not leading the dems because of white voters.
The only way I see him having a sizable lead is with a lot of older white folks picking him and I didn’t think there were too many left that were dems.
Not on excerpt-only list. So, OP, if you just POST IT, instead of making it clickbait, that won’t happen.
Here.
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Just as Biden Soars Past Other 2020 Candidates, Unearthed ‘Negro’ Speech Threatens To Shut Him Down
Unearthed ‘Negro’ Speech Threatens to DOOM Joe Biden
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By C. Douglas Golden
Published June 1, 2019 at 9:41am
Former Vice President Joe Biden has accumulated a lead in the 2020 Democrat polls sufficient to officially qualify for frontrunner status. This is pretty impressive when you consider the amount of baggage he had to drag along in order to get himself there.
There were the repeated accusations that he inappropriately touched females.
There were the gaffes he made during his previous campaigns, including plagiarism and the infamous remark about how “you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
Well, you can add one more remark from the 1970s to the pile of baggage, and this one might be heavy enough to stop that Joe-mentum dead in its tracks.
In a recently released book by Ryan Grim — a contributor to both The Young Turks and The Intercept — it was revealed that Biden gave a 1973 speech in Cleveland in which he talked about how the two-party system was “good for the Negro.”
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The title of Grim’s book, “We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement,” is pretty self-explanatory if you’re wondering what you can expect in terms of content. However, what it’ll be remembered for is probably one very problematic passage for the current Democrat frontrunner found on page 33.
“In 1973, during a speech at the City Club in Cleveland, Biden told an audience that the Nixon-era resurgence of Republicans in the South was a good thing,” Grim writes. “‘I think the two-party system,’ he said, ‘although my Democratic colleagues won’t like me saying this, is good for the South and good for the Negro, good for the black in the South.’”
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“Don’t @ me with ‘out of context,’ cuz I’ve got 401 pages of context here,” Grim said in a Thursday tweet, linking to the homepage for the book and highlighting Biden’s comment.
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You can listen to the audio of the speech here.
This is a problem for the obvious reasons: Telling the “negro” what was good for them doesn’t play well now, but it didn’t play particularly well then, either. Even in 1973, this probably compelled more than a few eyebrows at the City Club to involuntarily raise.
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There are also less obvious reasons this is double-plus-ungood for Biden. It’s become an unchallenged part of Democrat lore that the reason the South turned Republican was that Richard Nixon was a cynical racist whose “Southern strategy” managed to flip those states below the Mason-Dixon and put them into the GOP column.
Forget whether or not this is actually true (spoiler alert: no). I’m not sure what else is in that “401 pages of context” Grim has for us, but from just that quote, you could realistically extrapolate that Biden is speaking in favor of the Southern strategy, arguing that it’s “good for the Negro, good for the black in the South.”
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While you might not make that argument, there are currently 23 other Democrats not named Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race. The closest one to Biden in a recent Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey, released Friday by The Hill, is 19 points behind him. Do you think that perhaps a few of these Democrats, watching the former vice president’s lead expand and their chances shrink, might be inclined to make this an issue?
There were certainly plenty of conservatives on Twitter who were willing to make it an issue:
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And by the way, as you might have sussed out from Charlie Spiering’s quote above, this is not the first time that Biden has said something particularly cretinous regarding race.
When he first arrived in the Senate back in the 1970s, Biden was a vehement opponent of racial busing to achieve school desegregation. This, in and of itself, wasn’t an unusual or incriminatory thing. His quotes regarding why he was opposed to busing, however, don’t exactly play well in 2019.
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“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,’” Biden said in 1975. “I don’t buy that.”
Also Biden, from the same interview: “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.”
After those quotes were unearthed by The Washington Post, letters revealed he had worked closely with Mississippi Democrat Sen. James Eastland — a notorious segregationist who referred to blacks as “an inferior race” — on the busing issue.
Biden’s hard-line stance on criminal justice back in the 1990s has presented yet another issue for him on the race front.
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Then there was the fact that he was apparently considering putting a fig-leaf over all of this by the pathetic sop-throw of offering the running mate spot to Stacey Abrams — the African-American loser in last year’s Georgia gubernatorial election and cause célèbre among Democrats — before he had even entered the race. (To her credit, Abrams very publicly declined.)
And then there were his comments during the 2008 election cycle. Asked about his chances against a Southern Democrat during a 2007 appearance on Fox News, Biden said, “You don’t know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country.”
Because apparently being from a slave state confers an advantage upon a candidate in the South, according to Biden.
And then there was his assessment of Barack Obama before he was Obama’s running mate: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
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Oh dear.
The scab somehow seemed to have formed over all of those scrapes. Now, Ryan Grim has ripped it off. We’ll see how much support he ends up bleeding for stupidly deigning to ever give his advice regarding what was “good for the Negro, good for the black in the South.”
I can say one thing with certainty, though: Biden just got a whole lot more baggage to drag, especially if he wants to be the nominee of a party that wants to paint President Trump and the Republicans as racists.
But, but...Trump and Deplorables racist!!!!!! /s
Linkee no workee
Come on, there is nothing wrong with what he said there—46 years ago!
“Negro” was still a proper term of gentility then and he doubled it with “black” for the more woke of the time.
And he is right, blacks would be better off if they had both parties realistically vying for their votes.
And Charlie Kirk is an idiot Millennial who has no idea that “Negro” was not an insulting term in 1973. (Parscale and Don Jr ought to at least know better than to try to Trump this up as an issue, but they too have tried to tweet their shock at the quote.)
Joe is right about reparations and he can easily put it in context as that having been a quote from 46 years ago. But it is a quote that actually would probably help him in the general election.
Well you weren’t able to copy it because “The page you are looking for no longer exists”.
Ask for this thread to be deleted, there’s no content.
That video was a complete waste of time, with no Biden audio and two freaking commercials. Last time I’ll click on their links.
I think it is no big deal. he called a negro a negro...... that is bottomline truth
