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Joe Biden's policies are as troubling as his inappropriate touching
Posted by: A Terrible Candidate ()
Date: April 21, 2019 07:38PM

As the Democratic primary heats up, Joe Biden, who hasn’t even formally declared yet, is the latest candidate in the hot seat. At issue: his handsiness, which is generally notorious and specifically detailed by Nevada politician Lucy Flores; his moderate policies, which seem painfully out of touch in today’s Democratic party and the promise that his supporters make, which is that he’s the only candidate who can defeat Donald Trump.

One thing is clear. Joe Biden is the wrong candidate for 2020.

While much of the focus of the latest Biden blowup is Flores’s account of him weirdly sniffing her hair and kissing the back of her head, the real story is Biden’s treatment of women in the policy space.


Biden was anti-abortion before he was pro-choice; his record shows that he is still highly ambivalent and unreliable in his support for a woman’s right to choose. In response to the supreme court legalizing abortion for American women in 1973’s Roe v Wade, Biden said they went “too far” and that a woman shouldn’t have the “sole right to say what should happen to her body”.

In 1981, when Biden was a young senator and abortion rights were under attack, he voted in favor of a bill that would have allowed states to invalidate Roe – something that would have made abortion effectively illegal for millions of American women. He later voted against the same bill, but that didn’t exactly mark a turn toward feminism or reproductive freedom from Biden.

There’s an anti-abortion amendment named after him, which bans federal dollars from paying for overseas biomedical research related to abortion; he also supported the initial iteration of the Global Gag Rule, which cuts off US family planning foreign aid dollars to any organization that performs abortions with its own non-US money, refers for abortion services, or advocates for legal abortion (he later reversed that position, too).

Biden also supported the Hyde amendment, which says that poor women who rely on Medicaid for their healthcare must nonetheless pay for abortion services out of their own pocket, further stigmatizing abortion, taking it out of the healthcare space, and making it much harder for poor women to have real reproductive choices. He voted for the ban on so-called “partial-birth abortion”, a term invented by the anti-abortion right, that outlawed a rare but sometimes necessary procedure. It didn’t end or outlaw later abortions, it simply told doctors that they could no longer utilize a particular procedure, even where it was safer for a patient in need. Biden said that law did “not go far enough” and that if it was up to him, many more procedures would be banned. He continued to support these kinds of abortion bans even when they didn’t offer exceptions to save a pregnant woman’s life.


While Biden now says he supports abortion rights and has indeed voted to uphold them, he won’t comment on some of the most important policies pushed by pro-choicers, including whether he supports ending a federal rule that bars federal dollars from allowing poor women to end their pregnancies. It’s exceptionally clear that the right to choose – this fundamental right that broadly enables women to determine the course of their lives – is not an issue he’ll fight for.

His political stances on race are similarly conservative and narrow-minded. He opposed bussing as a way to integrate schools, helping to entrench racial segregation to this day. In 1975, he told a Delaware magazine that he didn’t buy the idea that black men have been oppressed for 300 years while white men got ahead, and that “In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race.” Saying he didn’t feel responsible for the sins of his father and grandfather, Biden added, “And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible for what happened 300 years ago.”

Unsurprisingly, Biden has not come out in support of reparations for African Americans. He also hasn’t changed his mind on bussing as a necessary component of school integration, even though, back then, he was casting aspersions on Brown v Board of Education (the supreme court case that invalidated racial segregation in schools) and said that “To ‘desegregate’ is different than to ‘integrate’.” For Biden, apparently, desegregating was fine, but racial integration wasn’t necessary or even desirable.

Biden also presided over the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings when Anita Hill testified that Thomas had sexually harassed her, and he looked on as she was treated with condescension and even aggression by Biden’s fellow senators; he also refused to let other women testify about similar experiences with Thomas, leaving Hill the target of vast ire and public humiliation.


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/03/joe-biden-policies-are-as-troubling-as-his-inappropriate-touching

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Re: Joe Biden's policies are as troubling as his inappropriate touching
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2. ()
Date: April 21, 2019 07:40PM

Any touching Uncle Joe does isn't shit compared to the perversion that muslim men do.

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Re: Joe Biden's policies are as troubling as his inappropriate touching
Posted by: Nothing funnier than Bs ()
Date: April 21, 2019 07:43PM

Nothing better than a trump supporter calling another candidate inappropriate. Dumbass

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Re: Joe Biden's policies are as troubling as his inappropriate touching
Posted by: Jonny Sereno ()
Date: April 21, 2019 09:22PM

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Re: Joe Biden's policies are as troubling as his inappropriate touching
Posted by: We need him ()
Date: April 21, 2019 10:29PM

He's the only one that can beat Trump though.

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Re: Joe Biden's policies are as troubling as his inappropriate touching
Posted by: No he can't ()
Date: April 21, 2019 10:33PM

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Re: Joe Biden's policies are as troubling as his inappropriate touching
Posted by: Joe is the guy ()
Date: April 21, 2019 10:36PM

No he can't Wrote:
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> > He's the only one that can beat Trump though.


Beto is flaming out.

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Re: Joe Biden's policies are as troubling as his inappropriate touching
Posted by: Maga man ()
Date: April 21, 2019 10:40PM

As a Trump supporter I am a little worried about Biden - a man not afraid to hide his appetites of the flesh. Reminds me of someone great ;)

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