Make it stop. Can someone please make it stop.https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1145205386397519874 …
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Dan Diamond
Make it stop. Can someone please make it stop.https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1145205386397519874 …
Jeet Heer added,
One thing people undervalued about Obama was his reflexive facility, after a lifetime in cross-racial politics, at navigating the sensibilities of all the constituencies of the Democratic alliance. It made him sometimes overly cautious, but almost gaffe-free.
Yet Biden led Obama when it came to marriage equality
Biden is insufficiently attuned to today's codes & snap judgments, but its as much about us as him. Funny thing is, both in the segregationist senators incident and re: gay jokes, his main flaw seems to be taking for granted that his audience knows & trusts him. They trust no one
I think there's good reason for his audience not to trust Biden since the deals he made with segregationist senators were anti-bussing, pro-incarceration and putting Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court.
That may be true. Still, like most of us, he probably should not be defined by the worst moments in the past 50 years of his public life.
Unfortunately, on major points it's not actually true. Who exactly are we talking about with criminal justice legislation? Eastland retired in 1978. Talmadge in 1980. Biden voted against Thomas in committee and on the floor. Some truth with busing. Other two points simply false.
On Thomas, Biden's handling of Hill mattered more than his vote.
So your argument is that his goal was to get him confirmed? Because that is what you claimed earlier.
2/ Note you seem to say above that he made a deal with segregationists to put Thomas on the court.
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