When you’ve been in the public eye as long as Joe Biden – long enough for everything wrong with Washington to be “everything wrong with Joe Biden,” there’s a lot out there. The creepy-touchy thing. The plagiarism. Lying about Law School. Hey, this is new!
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“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.’”
Another topic for them to plumb at the Biden Institute? Probably not, because as Conservative Tribune Author C Douglas Golden notes,
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.
Do you know what else doesn’t play well?
“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.”
JoeBiden’s got two things going for him. He’s not a Republican, and Democrat voters think he can beat Trump. But as Golden further notes, he’s in a primary with about a million other Democrats. Each of them looking for an opportunity to get a leg up on anyone who is ahead of them. And Joe Biden is ahead of everyone. At least for now.
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