I do not want Joe Biden to run for the Democratic nomination, he has a record which might have made him a good vice-president for Obama, I'd give him a B or a B- on that, he has a record that would make him a terrible Democratic candidate for president, especially as it becomes ever clearer that old-white-straight-men are not the winning demographic for the Democratic Party, even taking into account that a very large percentage of old-white-straight-men do and have voted for Democrats, just not a majority of that artificial entity.
The Biden record in regard to his awful running of the Clarence Thomas hearings should be enough to disqualify him from getting the 2020 Democratic nomination, I've reviewed the tapes, he was clearly afraid to cross his Republican colleagues whose behavior to Anita Hill was an abomination that, if what happens in the afterlife is based in justice, sees the likes of Arlen Specter in hell, soon to be joined by the sanctimonious Orin Hatch and so many others. Biden's questioning of her was, clearly, more calculated to be acceptable to Republicans on the committee and in the right wing media than it was to find out the truth. It wasn't an attempt to uncover the truth about Clarence Thomas's sexual harassment, something which sheds light on his behavior in office, it was to cover Biden's white, straight, male ass. His refusal to call the other corroborating witnesses who would have supported what Anita Hill said is proof that he cared more about the idiocy of Senate comity among his fellow white-men than doing justice for women. His failure to have owned up to his failure in that up to and including today, to apologize sincerely to Anita Hill and the other witnesses he failed to call even as he's clearly preparing to run for president, AGAIN, proves he did not get it, he has not gotten it and he still doesn't get it.
The last thing Democrats need in the last weeks of October and the first in November 2020 is a presidential candidate who did to women what Joe Biden did as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee then. If Hillary Clinton was defeated by a narrow margin of votes in a few states due to the phony baggage she was loaded with by James Comey, the New York City office of the FBI and the New York Times, Joe Biden's real baggage is preserved on video tape.
That's only one of the reasons that Joe Biden should be talked out of running and, failing that, retired early in the primaries and caucuses.
His record of running bad presidential campaigns is certainly relevant as is that also recorded instance when he idiotically plagarized a well known speech by the British Labour Party Leader of the time, Neil Kinnock. If you want to see how that will be a problem for Biden, google "Neil Kinnock Speech" and see what comes up.
Biden should do what Hillary Clinton seems to have done and realize that the window on the possibility of his presidency closed a long time ago, it's time for younger Democrats to get their chances. From what I read his attempt to patch the gaping hole in his credibility that he put into it with his treatment of Anita Hill by using the young, dynamic politician Stacey Abrams to plug it up with has failed. If she refuses to do that for him, she has more sense than he ever exhibited.
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