Posted on 08/02/2020 10:32:34 AM PDT by RightGeek
But since Obama brought it up, it’s worth noting that the only person in modern American politics to have repeatedly praised Wallace and other segregationists is Joe Biden. It was Biden who bragged that in 1973 Wallace considered him “one of the outstanding young politicians of America.” It was Biden who wrote in 1975 that the “Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace.” It was Biden who in 1981 told a black witness in the Senate that “sometimes even George Wallace is right.” It was Biden who, while campaigning for the presidency in Alabama in 1987, claimed that he’d been the recipient of an award from Wallace in 1973 (it probably wasn’t true; but what a thing to brag about!), and then boasted that Delaware was “on the South’s side in the Civil War.”
Not long ago, Biden alleged that his relationship with pro-segregationist senators such as James O. Eastland and Herman Talmadge was nothing more than a matter of “civility.” That contention is easily debunked. ... Biden confirmed the relationship himself...
Biden was also buddies with J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and a segregationist and anti-Semite who would later become a mentor to the Clintons.
All of this history deserves context, but it’s indisputable that in the 1970s the senators were friendly. (Though, I guess, I should also mention that the last time black kids were kicked out of a school by the federal government, it was the Obama administration shutting down the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program.) But if every media outlet is going to gleefully quote Obama on Wallace, let’s talk about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Republicans are punished for their past comments.
Democrats “evolve”. So ol’ Joe will be just fine.
Birds of a feather...
The most damning aspect of this is simply that Biden has been in politics long enough to have ties to segregationists.
She is literally one of the most frightening people I have ever seen. I have nightmares about her.
She knows all and she knows how it is all going to end. You can see it in her wicked smile.
If Joementia ever actually finds a debate stage, one of the questions he should be made to answer is “How many crosses did you burn in your youth?”
Wallace was a staunch Democrat and racist, as most of them really are. They abuse Blacks because they think they own them. Which is slavery by proxy.
Unfortunately she has me and there is no escape.
Is that Bush Sr in blue/green?
Yes
Of course.
Are you trying to be funny. I don’t get it. Who is she.
will try to cancel Slow Joe?”
Nah, not needed after he chooses a Commie Bass, or a flatbacker Harris.....Either will ensure a failure for dems....
She might be the antichrist.
Maybe. She is at a gathering of the 3 horsemen of the idiots.
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