We must define acceptable and nonacceptable touching
If not we will eat our own while the GOP snickers at us.
First, is there any statute of limitations ? How long is too long to report something?
Say, I’m 60 now and running for office and a woman from my college days comes forward and and says that I inappropriately touched her.
When pressed for details, she is vague other than to say I put my hands on her when she didn’t want me to.
Ok, so that could have been anything from a plutonic hug to a reach around where he grabbed her breast.
Clearly, for most people, the first is acceptable in polite society where the second is not.
But, there’s all types of things in between.
Some people are just touchy feely kind of people that hug everyone of both genders.
Some people are not and hate that.
I’m just saying that before we go after any public figure on this issue, that we define what occurred and when it occurred to be forgivable and what we do not. It shouldn’t matter who the person is but what the alleged behavior is.
The person alleging must be expected to give the most specific details possible and any corroboration they have. If they are deemed credible, then and only then should the allegations go public. Once they do, the person alleged must give a specific response to the specific allegations. No vague or general statements.
As for Biden specifically, he knows if he has taken advantage of his position over the years to grope or give unwanted kisses to women. If so, he owes it to the party and the country to tell us so. If he hasnt, we need to accept it and move on barring a series of other women coming forward with other similar or worse accusations .
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Maybe that's just me 
He's old enough to have learned about being touchy-feely only in appropriate circumstances, as I have learned over the years. In fact, I learned that in my 20s and 30s. Does that mean that I have never done something that caused discomfort in someone sometime since. I don't remember doing that, but it's entirely possible that it happened without any comment at the time.
So, it wouldn't be surprising if a public figure like Joe Biden or, say, Al Franken caused someone some discomfort at one time or another by some overly personal physical contact. I'd be surprised if anyone could say that never happened.
Here's what I think about retrospective discomfort being reported long after something occurred: It's not something that should destroy a political campaign or career. A belated apology for the behavior is enough, as long as the contact wasn't blatantly sexual.
Politicians are public figures who encounter thousands of people up close. If someone recalls something that made him or her uncomfortable, I see no problem if they say it happened. If they do, then the politician apologizes and that should be that, except in the case of blatant sexual intent, like Trump has had on multiple occasions. He doesn't care, and makes jokes about "grabbing them by the pussy."
Biden says he doesn't remember the incident, which I can easily believe. He says that he's sorry about causing discomfort to the person reporting it. It didn't come up at the time, or he would have apologized then, I'm sure.
My attitude about this sort of thing, retrospectively reported is: He apologized. 
I was part of the Feminist movement of the 70's, and consider myself a strong woman who can handle most situations without any assistance, thank you.
When men use physical strength or power/authority to overwhelm me, yeah, you can jump in there if you can really help.
I'm pretty clear about where my responsibility limits are.
Whisper in my ear and see what happens. 
Just slipped. You know they would say I stroked not slip. My intent was to get off the couch but assholes would claim I was trying to grope him and climb on him. 
