The Real Joe Biden

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OP named this thread exactly the same as the smear campaign ads on YouTube. Coincidence?

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Coincidence. It's a pretty generic political statement, bro.

Plus, I'm not smearing. I am reading books, and presenting my findings. I think Joe Biden is almost a stereotypical politician, a hypocrite but hardly an evil or bad person. I would definitely have a beer with him

I'd say it's more of a pejorative red herring about creating false equivalency between Biden's past & Trump's more recent transgressions. The Trump campaign & organization always rely on the past for their ratiionale. Other politicians generally use enough progressive thought to plan for the future.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Your call. Just out of curiosity, which books have you read about Joe Biden?
I'm curious. Please name them, perhaps we have read the same ones, and have different interpretations of them?

Mine were Joe Biden: a Life of Redemption by Jules Wittcover (a slog)
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Yesterday's Man, by Marcetic (excellent left of center book )

^^please tell me what you thought of "yesterday's man" ?

Hi, Auntblabby! Hope you are doing well. That book was a (in my opinion) excellent summary of Joe as an old school Catholic Democrat whose time has in many ways passed. It showed Joe as having lots of contradictions (like Clinton he gets along well with blacks and other groups, but ends up selling them down the river), and it shows the unreal number of personal tragedies that Joe has dealt with. If Biden wins the Presidency, he will do so by basically going against every deeply entrenched, conservative belief he has. Politics is a tough gig. Joe must be weary.

Having talked to the occasional Catholic Democrat, I'll take 10 million of them before one bible thumping fascist any day.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Yesterday’s Man is by a writer for Jacobin, a far-left (not centre-left) magazine.

I think it misses the mark on presenting Biden as a centrist with conservative convictions, rather than someone who has shifted with the tide of the Democratic Party while maintaining an antiquated interest in bipartisanship.

I won't disagree (except the New Deal, I think he will let that be). Otherwise I don't see how progressives could be sold such a bad bill of goods. Add in Kamala Harris and how in the hell can you call them good candidates. Third parties are corrupt this time around as well, so we are really s**t up a crick.

i am not convinced that many POC will be able to look past harris' LEO past, given the nasty reputation such has these days what with all the police misconduct and prosecutorial misconduct coming to light.

We're screwed either way. If no one votes, then what happens with the electorals?