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So here's an email to the NYT in defense of Joe Biden's "handiness." I agree with the Ms. Skocpol; what about you?

Theda Skocpol writes:

The piling on about Joe Biden’s sometimes unwanted affectionate touches by political competitors and media outlets is shameful. Both women who have come forward so far are not talking about workplace abuse or sexual misconduct. I can believe them, and still ask why they are speaking up now.

One person, who has supported a political competitor to Biden, acknowledges that she is speaking because Biden is considering entering the primaries; the other says that if Biden really respects women, he should not run and clear the field for the capable women candidates.

Wait a minute: Is this what gender equality really means? Is this the kind of society we want to live in — where right-wingers can do any vicious thing they want to anyone and shrug it off, while people on the center-left are supposed to expel from public life anyone who says a single wrong word or has done something benignly intended in the past that now does not fit changed norms?

Not me, that is not the kind of America I want to live in. That is not the kind of Democratic primary I want to participate in. If Biden wants to run, I want to hear what he has to say and compare him, fair and square, to the others.

Biden has long been known as an emotional person who hugs just about everyone he feels positively about, male and female. Now the social mores have shifted. He needs to say he realizes this and change his behavior accordingly. Everyone else, meanwhile, needs to get a grip.

Anyone who experiences an unwanted word or gesture should tell the person involved that they would like them not to say/do that — not wait a decade and contact the media in an expedient moment. And Democrats must keep in mind that they need votes in 2020 from millions of older Americans who are really put off by this kind of out-of-context piling on.

[End of Skocpol’s email.]

Salgal102 4 Apr 10
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I agree that it much ado about nothing, I would vote for him if he were nominated but I sure would like someone much, much younger.

gearl Level 8 Apr 11, 2019
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Note that Lucy Flores has been careful to avoid describing her actual motive for her bringing this up. In the absence of said motive, and the lack of anything described as being wrongful, we can all safely assume that she is lying for her own gain (improved status among fellow Bernie-supporters?).

For the rest of us, Flores's immoral deception rivals that of Trump.

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Amen

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I have said from the beginning this is phony outrage driven by politics. I don't care who the Dems nominate, I will vote for that person.

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