Joe Biden under fire for segregationist senators remarks

[MMC]

Even worse with the NY Slimes and MSDNC reporting on this issue and then saying Biden was reaching across the aisle. Then saying the 2 guys Biden brought up were Republicans.


Which they aren't. So Biden wasn't reaching across the aisle.

[MMC]

2020 Dems Scold Biden for Praising ‘Civility’ of Segregationist Senators.....



A number of former vice president Joe Biden’s rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination chastised him Wednesday after he lauded the civility and pragmatism of the southern segregationist senators he worked with early in his career.


In response, New York mayor and 2020 presidential aspirant Bill De Blasio recounted the abhorrent views espoused by the southern senators and urged Biden to apologize for his comments.


Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, who is polling well behind Biden in early primary states, also criticized the former Delaware senator for holding up the conduct of openly racist lawmakers as an example to be aspired to.


During the fundraiser, Biden, who was first elected to the Senate in 1973, argued that his experience negotiating with southern Democrats decades ago would enable him to break through the partisan hostilities that today prevent legislative progress.....snip~


https://www.nationalreview.com/news/...nist-senators/

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How long before AOC sounds off?

[MMC]

Biden Was More Than ‘Civil’ With Segregationists. He Was An Ally


Presidential hopeful Joe Biden got himself into trouble this week defending his relationship with pro-segregationist senators James O. Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia at New York fundraiser. “At least there was some civility,” the former vice president explained. “We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done.”


Biden was attempting to liken contemporary Republicans to 1970s-era Southern racist Democrats while also highlighting his history of bipartisan compromise. Although his comments were a political miscalculation, nowhere was the former vice president “waxing nostalgic” nor “fondly” remembering either of those lawmakers in his speech, despite the contentions of progressives, presidential candidates, and some in the media.


Then again, it’s fair to point out that the historic record shows Biden was far more than merely “civil” with segregationists. His early interactions can be more accurately described as obsequious. Biden hadn’t negotiated with political rivals to push bipartisan policy. He had worked with members of his own party—run by men who placed him in positions of power—on issues they agreed on.


In 1973, Democratic Party leadership was teeming with unsavory Southern senators. If a freshman like Biden—who in a 1974 Time magazine profile admitted “to being compulsively ambitious”—wanted a plum committee position, he would be compelled to approach someone like J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, a segregationist and anti-Semite who would later become a mentor to the Clintons. (Bill awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993 and Hillary still had her name on a shared fellowship in 2016—although no one seemed to mind very much).


All that deference would pay off. Eastland and Fulbright assigned Biden seats on both the judicial committee and, although he had absolutely no related experience, on the foreign relations committee. This afforded Biden a head start in his Senate career; a position that many other senators, perhaps less inclined to suck up to segregationists, were not given.


Joe’s self-aggrandizement, false modesty, and exaggerations were often deployed in the third person, as if his adulation was aimed at some mysterious hero. Reading through the Senate transcripts of Biden during the 1970s and 1980s is both immensely entertaining and an important reminder that the upper chamber has always been something of a circus. It’s also useful in once again confirming that Biden is perpetually and shamelessly revising his own biography—which is allegedly the central case for this presidency.


Whatever the case, it’s difficult to feel much sympathy for his plight. In 2012, it was Biden who would tell a crowd of African Americans that the presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney—who, as far as we know, had shown not any deference to segregationists—was going to “put you all back in chains.” It was an ugly smear.....snip~


https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/21...tionists-ally/



Biden just might not make it to the finals.

[AZ Jim]

All you trumpies brush off the asinine remarks made by your hero daily but anything Biden says is earth shattering!!!!!!!!!

[Reason10]

All you trumpies brush off the asinine remarks made by your hero daily but anything Biden says is earth shattering!!!!!!!!!

Well, anything that gets BITE ME closer to the Oval Office is definitely economy-shattering.
Frankly, he'll be the easiest opponent President Trump ever faced. It'll be a bigger landslide than with the Nazi $#@! Hillary.

And it looks like he is a clear front runner in that pack of fcking retards in the Democrat Party who are lining up for their dose of humiliation.

[MMC]

All you trumpies brush off the asinine remarks made by your hero daily but anything Biden says is earth shattering!!!!!!!!!

Trump hasn't been talking out both sides of his mouth for 40 years. Creepy Joe has.

[Chris]

All you trumpies brush off the asinine remarks made by your hero daily but anything Biden says is earth shattering!!!!!!!!!

Very nicely played whataboutism, AZ.

[Mister D]

Forced busing was an incredibly stupid , destructive and wildly unpopular idea. I love how now everyone is for it.

[Chris]

Forced busing was an incredibly stupid , destructive and wildly unpopular idea. I love how now everyone is for it.

Not much of what the government forces on the people ever really works out well.

[donttread]

OMG! What will come of this!?!?

Joe Biden under fire for segregationist senators remarks

Well if they are against "civility" it pretty much didn't matter what he said after that