Trent Steele wrote:I hate Bernie Sanders and he is by a wide margin my last choice in the D primaries.

Grotewold wrote:

pacino wrote:this is the first time people from the Mueller team are talking and it's to counter Barr's assessment of their report

would of been nice to say this 10 days ago

thephan wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:I hate Bernie Sanders and he is by a wide margin my last choice in the D primaries.

Agree

JFLNYC wrote:It looks to me as if he bent down, whispered something nice to a colleague’s daughter and then gave her a peck on the head. The girl even thanked him. If you want to see monsters under the bed I can’t stop you but, honestly, people’s reactions (“young girls,” “creepy Uncle Joe” trope) to all this stuff says more about them than it does about Biden.

JUburton wrote:Dude has personal space issues with women. I would be shocked if there is video of him doing that with men.

JUburton wrote:Note, it would be wrong and weird with men too.

It's just arguably worse that it's only with women.

The new narrative about Biden suggests that he is exploitative and solipsistic in his encounters with women. Although I did not witness what the women who have come forward to criticize Biden experienced, and only they can say how these encounters felt to them, it seems relevant that Biden is touchy-feely with everyone—not just women, but children and men, too. My kids fought to be plus-ones for Biden events because of the type of behavior that is being called into question. He habitually nuzzled, hugged, and kidded around with them. But he wasn’t just physical. He tuned in emotionally. In the below photo, while a long line of influentials wait for his attention, Biden is listening to my 7-year-old’s concerns about Syrian kids.



After these encounters, I asked the question of the moment: Why does the guy act this way? Those who cite power dynamics are both exactly wrong and onto something. In Washington, warm welcomes are generally reserved for the most influential or the highest-dollar campaign donors. Sometimes that policy is explicit: You get a faux-intimate photo in exchange for a large PAC contribution. Biden’s disregard of this protocol is telling. He enters a room, just as he enters a debate about union rights or domestic violence, with a predisposition to lend an ear to the least powerful.

Judging from the reaction to the recent spate of Biden stories, time is up on avuncular attention, now interpreted as at best pernicious paternalism and at worst septuagenarian sexual harassment. In the cultural revolution under way in America, men like Biden are invited to offer their head if their prior actions deviated from the new norms.

No doubt, character counts. I, for one, admire Biden’s deviant decency.

JFLNYC wrote:These ever-increasing takes from the left are beginning to sound a lot like the early days of the Soviet Union or Mao's Cultural Revolution when deviation from strict orthodoxy was viewed, at best, as insanity and, at worst, treason and where children were encouraged to turn in their parents if the latter uttered anything which was not ideologically pure.

It's ironic that the far left of the party of the "differents" is more and more sowing the seeds of intolerance and lack of acceptance for anyone who isn't different in the right way. I'm glad I'm old enough that I likely won't be around when that harvest is reaped.

Monkeyboy wrote:There's this one clip of Biden trying to kiss a young girl and it sure does look creepy. He's on stage in front of everyone and his wife or someone is trying to get him to back off. She looked like a 14 year old redhead, I think the daughter of someone else who was on stage. I'll stay out of the general argument, but I don't know much about it, but that one clip was pretty dang creepy, regardless of age.

edit: Here it is. There are others. I find it troubling that the girls are often quite young.

JFLNYC wrote:]The new narrative about Biden suggests that he is exploitative and solipsistic in his encounters with women. Although I did not witness what the women who have come forward to criticize Biden experienced, and only they can say how these encounters felt to them, it seems relevant that Biden is touchy-feely with everyone—not just women, but children and men, too. My kids fought to be plus-ones for Biden events because of the type of behavior that is being called into question. He habitually nuzzled, hugged, and kidded around with them. But he wasn’t just physical. He tuned in emotionally. In the below photo, while a long line of influentials wait for his attention, Biden is listening to my 7-year-old’s concerns about Syrian kids.

After these encounters, I asked the question of the moment: Why does the guy act this way? Those who cite power dynamics are both exactly wrong and onto something. In Washington, warm welcomes are generally reserved for the most influential or the highest-dollar campaign donors. Sometimes that policy is explicit: You get a faux-intimate photo in exchange for a large PAC contribution. Biden’s disregard of this protocol is telling. He enters a room, just as he enters a debate about union rights or domestic violence, with a predisposition to lend an ear to the least powerful.

Judging from the reaction to the recent spate of Biden stories, time is up on avuncular attention, now interpreted as at best pernicious paternalism and at worst septuagenarian sexual harassment. In the cultural revolution under way in America, men like Biden are invited to offer their head if their prior actions deviated from the new norms.

No doubt, character counts. I, for one, admire Biden’s deviant decency.

JUburton wrote:MULTIPLE WOMEN HAVE COME FORWARD SAYING WHAT HE DID WAS INAPPROPRIATE TO THEM AND MADE THEM FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE AND EVEN JOE HAS SAID HE WILL REEVALUATE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE