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Biden's claim tonight that he only opposed federally mandated busing and did not generally oppose "busing in America" was a flagrant misrepresentation of his position in the '70s and '80s. He'd made crystal clear he opposed busing as a concept, as a matter of principle.
Biden's remarks on busing in the 1970s were generally very unequivocal -- "I oppose busing. It's an asinine concept." "A bankrupt concept." "Busing does not work." He expressed pride for making anti-busing sentiment "respectable" among liberals.
As recently re-reported by WaPo, Biden said things like this about busing: “What it says is, ‘In order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son.’ That’s racist!"
It wasn't just words: working with avowed racists, Biden pushed legislation to make it difficult to run busing programs. There *was* a caveat: he said he would support busing in cases where it'd been proven that a community had been intentionally segregated. But otherwise no.
Biden's campaign says that his position on busing would not have stopped the particular local busing program that Kamala Harris was a part of, since it was voluntarily adopted by the local community. In general, though: she was not mischaracterizing his opposition to busing.
Biden campaign’s argument is that him saying in the ‘70s that he opposed busing was understood then to mean he simply opposed federal-mandated busing, not all busing. Like when GOP said under Obama they oppose health reform, was obvious it meant Obamacare, not all health reform.
I wonder if anyone has ever changed their opinion over the course of 40 years.
Then he should say that. But he didn’t. Because he still thinks he was right.
We’re just picking the strangest fights. Any of these people would be 1,000,000x better than Donald. Gotta stop demonizing each other.
It’s important that the president has integrity...or at least a fairly decent memory. Still plenty of time to choose the best liberal candidate. Thinning down the field of candidates is part of the process.
A commitment to support whoever the party endorses does not negate a keen interest in seeing that the best candidate gets that endorsement. Much better to find out their defects now than later!
Absolutely, we agree!
If he can’t take what Kamala dishes out then how’s he gonna take on Trump...that’s what this showed me! She’s ready, Biden — not so much
Can you imagine a debate between Harris and Trump where all Harris does is cross examine Trump’s performance in the White House? Trump would lose his mind and look like a bumbling idiot.
He’s had plenty of chances to say that he had changed his mind over the years and now thinks that overall busing was a good policy. That would have been smarter and more forward-looking.
Sadly, he is not smarter than that. That’s what makes him dangerous.
And he was just bragging about it again last week.
Sorry, I think this “back in the day” talk is ridiculous. I’m so against busing, and have been contacted by others who were forced to bus & had a horrible experience. How about the future? Kamala got sympathy, it’s too bad Biden didn’t respond by directing the convo to future
Her answer did direct to the future, Des - does Biden think that *now* the federal government has no role in making sure that that, for example, the Civil Rights act is obeyed in the country? What about the Equality Act or the ERA when they are passed?
Because if that's the case, that Biden believes each state makes its own decisions about whether or not to follow federal law? There is no way in hell he belongs anywhere near the WH.
I disagree with you.
That is certainly your prerogative. I find it alarming.
I’m with you, Martha.
Thanks, Annalea. Before tonight I thought Biden was a spoiled out-of-touch but generally nice enough fellow. Now? I'm wondering what other dangerous notions he believes. Honestly, I want to hear from the squad tasked with keeping him in line during the Obama years.
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