If anyone tries to change your mind shoot through the door a couple of times.
Posted on 06/19/2019 7:51:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday dismissed calls to apologize for invoking his working relationships with two segregationist senators as an example of "civility," saying that his Democratic colleagues knew better.
Asked by a reporter outside a fundraiser in Maryland whether he'd apologize for his Tuesday remarks, the Democratic presidential candidate responded, "Apologize for what?"
"He knows better," Biden added, referencing Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) call to apologize for the remarks. "There’s not a racist bone in my body. I’ve been involved in civil rights my whole career. Period. Period. Period."
Biden has faced mounting backlash in the past 24 hours after invoking former Sens. James Eastland (D-Miss.) and Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) during a speech at a fundraiser Tuesday night.
Among other things, the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate cited his ability to work with the segregationist senators as an example of "civility" that no longer exists in Congress.
Biden also reminisced about working with Eastland and Talmadge in the Senate, saying Eastland never called him “boy.”
“At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished,” Biden said.
2020 Democratic candidates such as Booker, who is black, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) demanded Biden apologize for the comment.
“You don’t joke about calling black men ‘boys,’” Booker said in a statement. “Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to perpetuate white supremacy and strip black Americans of our very humanity.
“I have to tell Vice President Biden, as someone I respect, that he is wrong for using his relationships with Eastland and Talmadge as examples of how to bring our country together. And frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should.”
Sanders added that Biden's comments were particularly damaging "at a time when the Trump administration is trying to divide us up with its racist appeals.” Other 2020 candidates, including Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who is black, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) condemned Biden's position.
Biden stressed that he intended to make the point that "you don't have to agree" in order to pass major legislation.
"Here’s the deal. I could not have disagreed with them more. I ran for the United States Senate because I disagreed with the views of the segregationists," Biden said, adding that many of them were in the Senate when he first joined the body.
He went on to say that, despite those major differences, the Senate was able to pass an extension to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
"You don’t have to like the people in terms of their views," Biden said. "But you just simply make the case and you beat them. You beat them, without changing the system."
Biden's campaign has pushed back fiercely against the criticism he's received from 2020 presidential candidates.
"[Biden] did not praise a segregationist. That is a disingenuous take. He basically said sometimes in Congress, one has to work with terrible or down right racist folks to get things done. And then went on to say when you can't work with them, work around them," Symone Sanders, a senior advisor for the Biden campaign, tweeted.
If anyone tries to change your mind shoot through the door a couple of times.
A careful review of some of the source reports for this news item yielded not a single reference pointing out that the segregationists Biteme referred to were Democrats. If some scoundrel is a member of the GOP, every article would lead with the word "Republican" and every paragraph would contain GOP or the like.
I would like to ask Biden: "Wouldn't you agree that it is a sorry state of affairs when even you, a stalwart of the Dem. Party, and a man with an impeccable record with regards to civil rights, is being forced by the left-wingers to constantly re-affirm his political credentials and deny that he is a racist? And what about people and politicians who are right-of-center? Wouldn't you agree that they are in an even more-impossible situation? How has it come to this, that one cannot engage in political discourse nowadays without spending 75% of one's time documenting that one isn't a racist, a homophobe, and Islamophobe, etc.? And WHO is responsible for this? The conservatives? Or the liberals?"
Regards,
Sorry...this is the moment when Biden gets hit by the SJW Express! It will only go downhill from here!
“Three Nationality Harris isn’t really even black.”
That’s what I was thinking. While she is relatively dark skinned, aren’t her parents Indian and Jamaican?
Only when she self identifies as Black for vote harvesting.
The female Obama.
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Biden worked with Senator Byrd for decades - Senator Bryd - A DEMOCRAT was a member of the KKK... Of course Biden’s
worked with racists - they were members of the democrat party... Here’s a few others - beyond Al Gore’s father - and Bill Clinton’s mentor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United_States_politics#Robert_Byrd
Robert Byrd - DEMOCRAT
Senator Robert Byrd was a Kleagle, a Klan recruiter, in his 20s and 30s.
Robert C. Byrd, was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd, wrote a letter in 1946 to the group’s Imperial Wizard stating “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Byrd attempted to explain or defend his former membership in the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.[1] Byrd, a Democrat, eventually became his party leader in the Senate.
Edward Douglass White - DEMOCRAT
Supreme Court Chief Justice White
Edward Douglass White, a Democrat and the Chief Justice of the United States, was a known member of the KKK in his home state of Louisiana, where he had served as U.S. Senator.[4][5]
Hugo Black - DEMOCRAT
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
In 1921, Hugo Black successfully defended E. R. Stephenson in his trial for the murder of a Catholic priest, Fr. James E. Coyle. Black, a Democrat, joined the Ku Klux Klan shortly afterwards, in order to gain votes from the anti-Catholic element in Alabama. He built his winning Senate campaign around multiple appearances at KKK meetings across Alabama.
Theodore G. Bilbo - DEMOCRAT
Theodore G. Bilbo, a Democrat, the Governor of Mississippi and later the U.S. Senator for Mississippi, was a founder of the Mississippi chapter of the KKK.
John Brown Gordon
John Brown Gordon, a Democrat and the U.S. Senator for Georgia, was a founder of the KKK in his home state of Georgia.
Joseph E. Brown
Joseph E. Brown, a Democrat and the U.S. Senator for Georgia, was a key supporter of the KKK in his home state.[
Elmer David Davies
Elmer David Davies, a Democrat and a Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, was a member of the KKK whilst at university.[15]
Edward L. Jackson
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