Joe Biden has issued
yet another non-apology to Anita Hill. At the Biden Courage Awards in New York
Tuesday night, he said he regretted how the Senate Judiciary Committee, which
he chaired, handled Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegations against Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
“A brave lawyer, a
really notable woman, Anita Hill, a professor, showed the courage of a lifetime
talking about her experience being harassed by Clarence Thomas, but she paid a
terrible price. She was abused in the hearing. She was taken advantage of. Her
reputation was attacked. I wish I could have done something.”
Hill insists after 28
years Biden has yet to apologize to her.
A published report from
the Atlanta
Journal Constitution stated Biden had met with defeated Georgia gubernational
candidate Stacey Abrams to discuss the possibility of her being his running
mate for 2020. Abrams quashed that
notion when she appeared on ABC’s The
View telling the audience, “you don’t run for second place.” Ouch!
Biden has been playing
a drawn out game of hide-and-seek over whether he will announce his candidacy for
president. Democrats are desperately searching for someone who can defeat
President Trump in 2020.
Several political operatives
who worked or volunteered for Biden’s 2008 campaign have signaled they are
unlikely to do so this cycle, in part, because they know the embarrassments are
coming.
Uncle Joe Biden’s loose
lips and outmoded attitudes won’t fly with today’s Democrat Party renegades.
Joe’s going to need an
astounding amount of campaign cash to mount a successful challenge against the
throng of arrogant pukes who’ve already thrown their hat in the ring.
Way back in 2008, his
ill-fated presidential campaign managed to reach 5% in the national polls. When the Iowa caucus votes tallied a dismal
1%, he dropped out of the race.
The brains in Biden’s head make beluga caviar look like
sawdust.
The good folks at the Washington
Free Beacon unearthed a video from the 1970s where Biden argued the
political system was inherently corrupt and forced candidates to go to “the
people who have money” who always “want something.”
"You run the risk
of deciding whether or not you're going to prostitute yourself to give the
answer you know they want to hear in order to get funded to run for that
office," Biden testified during the program.
Biden admits he decided
to "prostitute" himself but was denied because of his age.
"I went to the big
guys for the money," Biden said. "I was ready to prostitute myself in
the manner in which I talk about it, but what happened was they said, ‘Come
back when you're 40, son.'"
"So, I had to go
out, I had to go out to a number of small contributors," he said.
Biden goes on to say
his ability to raise money despite his rejection from big donors—he said he
raised $276,000—was due to his unique identity as a young person.
"I'm a 29-year-old
oddball," he said. "The only reason I was able to raise the money is
that I was able to have a national constituency to run for office, because I
was 29."
"I'm like the
token black or the token woman," Biden said. "I was the token young
person."
The broader issue is Biden has been around politics so long his votes while a senator can and
will be picked apart as evidence that he is simply not the right person to lead
an increasingly diverse, younger and more female Democratic Party.
His
stewardship over the Thomas hearing and his vote in favor of the 1994 crime
bill are the two most obvious examples of that problem, but there are and will be others.
Biden’s full appearance
on PBS’s The Advocates can be viewed here. A spokesperson for the Biden Foundation did
not respond to a request for comment.
UPDATE: Welcome readers of Bad Blue Uncensored
News. Joe Biden is shakier than a rescue dog in Phil Specter’s house. We thank Doug Ross for linking to this post.
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