When a young Joe Biden used his opponent's age against him

[mobeau69]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-a-young-joe-biden-used-his-opponents-age-against-him/

[stonecutter357]

1. let's go Joe !

[still_one]

4. I have to tell ya stone, I love your responses to the most inane attacks against Joe

You are on to something there

[BannonsLiver]

26. Was about to post the same thing.

Relentlessly positive and on message.

[still_one]

28. Exactly

[onetexan]

14. +1 -K&R

[cwydro]

20. ...

[EveHammond13]

2. I am never going to care about this

[Downtown Hound]

3. Don't care. Have a nice day.

[left-of-center2012]

5. People keep throwing mud at Joe

“When you throw mud at someone else, you not only get your hands dirty, but you lose ground.” -
Ravi Zacharias

[elleng]

7. I'm rubber you're glue, your words bounce off me and stick to you.

I'm not getting into any of this, repugs will do plenty of it.

[aikoaiko]

6. "'Dear old dad may have been right for his time -- and I love him -- but things are different now.''

That's pretty much how I feel about Uncle Joe.

[BannonsLiver]

27. As if that wasn't clear already.

[Celerity]

8. hard to not when Biden was the same age AOC is now (29) and running for Senate, I see nothing wrong

The ironic thing is that Cale Boggs would have had to serve 4 more full Senate terms and have retired in January, 1997 (Boggs died in 1993) to be the same age Biden would be at the end of 2 POTUS terms (86 years old).

[JI7]

9. that was against a Republican.

[Otto Lidenbrock]

10. I found this bit funny

But Biden, who repeatedly called Boggs a "helluva nice guy,"

It reminds me of a story in Britain when a long serving MP was challenged to his post in his constituency for the first time in over 20 years. The challenger was getting lots of crowds in his public talks at local pubs and halls but he'd always start by saying how he respected the MP and praised him for the job he had done over the many years. The MP turned up to one of the events and shouted "if you like me so much why the f*** are you running against me!"

[pnwmom]

11. This claim hasn't weathered well.

"To Cale Boggs an unfair tax was the 1948 poll tax. To Joe Biden an unfair tax is the 1972 income tax," said another ad.

I thought Dems were against poll taxes and for income taxes.

[uawchild]

13. ouch

That's going to leave a mark.

[Otto Lidenbrock]

21. That piece has been up for a week and only now noticed it

Doubt it will do anything. Besides, all of our elder statesman today were once young whippersnappers taking down the past generation's elder statesman. This is not a modern thing. As someone said above, AOC is in the exact same boat and if she hangs around in Congress long enough she'll have someone younger promising new ideas and thinking. Although she'll probably has enough visibility already to run for President as soon as she gets to the 35 age requirement.

[JI7]

17. i think it's about generational differences in time

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he is saying boggs is from the days of poll taxes.

he isn't saying boggs is a bad guy and in fact says positive things about him.

the heroin one makes it seem like Biden is for heroin or something.

but it's more about Biden saying he is from the current generation where those things are the issues and in boggs time it was polio.

[uawchild]

18. Yeah, that heroin thing...

lol I know, really.

What most struck me was how lame those quips sound now.

It was a simpler time. A more white bread time.

[marylandblue]

24. In 1972, poll taxes were already illegal, but income taxes were not indexed for inflation

Causing many people to complain that their taxes were going up while their real income remained flat.

[emmaverybo]

12. So? nt

[George II]

15. Funny thing, unless I missed it Biden's ad never mentioned Boggs' age, just the fact....

....that Boggs' policy positions would not fly in the 1970s. He was right.

[Cha]

16. lol.. think you've found

some dirt on Joe Biden?

[Skya Rhen]

19. I love all the Biden obsession out there - Joe has that effect on people. I, too, have been smitten

[Cha]

23. lol

[Skittles]

22. meh

who didn't do that when they were younger, er, especially "back in the day"

[PatSeg]

25. I hope no one holds me

responsible for things I did or said when I was 29! This is pretty lame and ineffective.