Trying to paint VP Biden as some out of touch latent racist..

[Peacetrain]

is not going to work with me..never in a million years.. all it does is make me take a MUCH closer look at others records.. recent and 40 years ago.. and I know I have picked the right person.. at 2% or less you will never be President Booker and DeBlasio.. and you may very well be remembered as skewing the party in an desperate attempt to gain ground you could not do on policy an ideas.. I hope not..

[redstatebluegirl]

1. It won't work with me either. The supporters of one of our candidates is pulling out

all of the stops. He feels he is entitled, he is not.

[Peacetrain]

3. I am not blaming Booker alone.. DeBlasio, this is his last chance too..

and he was spewing on MSNBC earlier today.. it is just so sad.. When the Biden team dropped his bill today.. there it went .. all up in smoke, so both came out swinging for the fences..

[PatSeg]

16. This sort of thing turns most

Democratic voters off and it will be very hard to regain any confidence or respect that is lost. Attack Trump or republicans in congress, but when they go after a well established and much loved Democrat, they are losing ground.

[Peacetrain]

18. Exactly...

Could not have said it better.. Joe Biden is a good man.. We are turning our fire on each other instead of standing back to back..

[PatSeg]

25. Which is exactly what republicans

are hoping for.

[jberryhill]

2. He needs to stop hollering "Adult Swim" every time the kids try to jump in, though

[Peacetrain]

6. I do not even know what to say? Good grief

[jberryhill]

13. That's the pool he used to work at

Before asthma kept him out of the draft, he worked a summer job as a lifeguard at a pool in Wilmington. They named it, or at least the lifeguard stand, after him a couple of weeks back.

This picture was even more iconic:



Because I think one or two of the kids has figured out what is standing between them and going in the pool.

And, yep, the sign reads "Joseph R. Biden Jr. Lifeguard Chair"

[Peacetrain]

19. Now that makes sense.. did not know he was a lifeguard at one time..

I thought it was a made up picture from someone like the Russians or the republican bots who make up stories and re-do pictures to try and smear our people.. that Joe Biden was keeping children from swimming in a pool.. you know, I had to run over to do an errand.. and I am so glad I did.. because .. hand to God.. I was going to come back in and alert on that picture.. so glad I did not.. A terrible case of ASSUME on my part..

[jberryhill]

20. lol, no

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2017/06/26/wilmington-names-pool-after-joe-biden-former-lifeguard/408917001/

Wilmington names pool after Joe Biden, former lifeguard



Former Vice President Joe Biden returned on Monday to a place he said helped shape his perspective on race relations: Prices Run Pool.

"I owe you all," said Biden at the event, surrounded by African-American children in their swimsuits. "I owe this neighborhood. I learned so, so much."

In a ceremony, the facility in Brown-Burton-Winchester Park was renamed the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Aquatic Center. The name change commemorates Biden's early connection to the pool where he was the only white lifeguard in the summer of 1962.

At the time, in an era of racial dissent, Biden said he was a suburban kid who wanted to broaden his personal network.

"I wanted to get more involved," he said. "I'd turn on the television and I'd see and listen to Dr. (Martin Luther) King and others, but I didn't know any black people. So, I wanted to work here."

Biden said his dozen black fellow lifeguards "treated me as an equal," and they taught each other about race and privilege.

[Peacetrain]

21. That just touches my heart.. Thank you for giving me the backstory..

I am all tearing up now

[PatSeg]

17. Ha,ha, ha!!!

[world wide wally]

4. Biden is tried and true (ask Obama)

He also has the best chance to beat the world's biggest asshole as of right now.

[Peacetrain]

7. Yep good people!!!

[ananda]

5. Me neither.

I still like Biden a lot!

I also like Warren!

Great team there maybe.

[Peacetrain]

9. Warren is my hubbys pick.. we are a split house this elections

[PatSeg]

24. Maybe you'll get lucky and

we'll have a Biden/Warren ticket!

[Hortensis]

8. He must be trying to break through with the party's black bloc,

knowing that people like me will vote for whoever becomes our nominee.

"When they go low, we go high," is what I want to see, though. Again. In any candidate.

[Peacetrain]

10. Any of us will.. We will vote for the nominee..

[jalan48]

11. Just goes to show that 90's Centrism is not today's Centrism.

[eilen]

12. I just love Joe Biden!

I don't care what any of his rivals in the campaign say. He is a genuinely decent man. I remember him over the years, he comes to my city regularly and I understand what it is to have current standards turned around on you for your past (I know there is an amazing German word for that phenomena).

I read his campaign website on the issues and I agree with most of them. The only reason I have not chosen Joe is because I also really like Sen. Amy K.

[ancianita]

14. Anyone who supported and voted for Obama knows what Obama showed: Democrats can evolve.

Particularly Biden. He's the longest standing Democrat on the campaign stage.

If anyone says "Biden can't go from a racist to a former racist. We're better than that ..." then

YES WE CAN

go from a racist to a bigot to better than that. Humans evolve. No one knew that better than Obama.

If you mean, WE can't evolve, then how can you say "we're better than that." That makes no sense.
Of course any human can evolve.

Obama did over gay marriage, on marijuana legalization, and other issues like bipartisan effort. Why? Because times change, the country's people change.

That is why Biden has evolved in women's issues and race issues. You think our previous presidential candidate (Obama) could evolve but any current ones cannot? Pffft

To say one candidate can evolve and the other cannot is to set up false divisions within our part and a double standard.

If you want the party to win, these double standards any form of purity tests have to stop.

A party's house divided against itself cannot stand.

[ucrdem]

15. I'm really disappointed in Harris and Booker.

I thought they had class but this tactic is just embarrassing.

[Skya Rhen]

22. +1,000,000

[Kahuna7]

26. for the next debate, he needs to list his civil rights accomplishments, then

ask them to do the same. Crickets will ensue.

[Autumn]

23. Of course he's not a latent racist. nt

[still_one]

27. Four people I had in consideration for the primaries. Biden, Harris, Warren, and Buttigieg

Now there are three:

Biden Warren and Buttigieg in no particular order

[Skya Rhen]

28. +1,000,000

[ecstatic]

29. What happened now? nt

[Otto Lidenbrock]

30. Biden should ring up Carter

And ask him for a word of clarification on the historical record. Because who better to provide context for politics in the 1970s than someone who was the President of the United States in the 1970s.