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Here’s our own Veritas Omnia Vincit, and his thoughts on who may well be the next Democrat Presidential Candidate, Joe Biden. I’m sure you all have your opinions of Uncle Joe, as do I. Here’s V:<\/p>\n
Veritas Omnia Vincit:<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Politics of Division, or How in the hell am I defending Joe Biden?<\/em><\/p>\n
#metoo is a big deal in the United States these days, perhaps as it should be. After all we don\u2019t want our wives and daughters being subject to sexual misconduct in the workplace or at leisure activities, nor should we make light of inappropriate contact in the workplace. Women shouldn\u2019t be subject to unwanted touching by anyone, men need to be aware of how their conduct can easily be misunderstood or how their conduct is actually inappropriate and can be terms for dismissal from a professional work environment here in civilian land.<\/p>\n
Joe Biden is a lot of things, he\u2019s an old school corporate centrist Democrat first and foremost. He\u2019s also just an old school old guy born in 1942 into a middle class family whose business had collapsed forcing them to live in at his grandma\u2019s for a while before his dad was finally able to find some success selling cars. By all accounts his formative years were spent like most in America, in the middle class. By all accounts his Irish American family was a typical one with lots of physical displays of affection between family members. He played some high school football and was good enough he was part of a group of athletes who were able to turn their school\u2019s rather dismal record into an undefeated season as a senior in high school.<\/p>\n
He was involved in some anti-segregation demonstrations and was class president in college as a junior and senior. While he received deferments from the draft to attend college he never attended a single anti-war demonstration and was noted for wearing sport coats even in college instead of more casual clothing popular in the late sixties. He initially thought of himself as a Republican but disliking Nixon led him to register as an Independent instead. He was not a fan of the racial politics of the Democrats at that time. In 1969 he would change his party to Democrat after being part of a group of liberals trying to reform Democrat politics.<\/p>\n
Why tell you all this? Because his background should matter as much as Kavanaugh’s did, because for me nothing about Biden from his past suggests he’s anything more than a loopy, huggy, touchy feely wienie. Also because for me there are a great many reasons to dislike Biden and his politics, but on principle I can find no reason to believe that he\u2019s any sort of lifelong pervert touching women inappropriately and creating a trail of broken victims of sexual misconduct behind him.<\/p>\n
For the record, I\u2019m not a fan of Joe Biden. I never have been and I never will be largely due to our differences over politics. Today however we seem to be using all manner of devices to divide us for reasons unrelated to our political beliefs in an effort to defame or question our personal morality to diminish our opinions or disqualify us from serving. Our actions if criminal should indeed do that, our actions if merely making others uncomfortable, should never create such a negative result.<\/p>\n
The #metoo movement serves a valuable purpose in bringing to light numerous things long hidden in the dark. Things that should, and do, disgust decent men in our society. That said, during the Kavanaugh hearings I was pissed off that an undocumented accusation of a more serious crime could be the basis for ruining a life and preventing someone from taking a judgeship. If we are to be true to the law, documented complaints filed within an appropriate legal time frame need to exist otherwise the complaints must be considered to lack merit and the accused considered innocent. None of Biden\u2019s accusers, like Kavanaugh\u2019s, have filed a complaint. They\u2019ve just mentioned they feel \u201cuncomfortable\u201d. I get that too as there are lots of people who make me feel \u201cuncomfortable\u201d from the dishrag handshake of one of my male vendors to the odd \u201csmokers voice\u201d low pitch at the end of every sentenceof a majority of young women\u2019s speech patterns these days. None of that is criminal though.<\/p>\n
However, Joe Biden has been in the limelight for decades, he has most likely met and touched thousands of women. Today though,based on the accusations of a few women who feel uncomfortable I\u2019m supposed to think he\u2019s not qualified for president? It seems wrong on principle to go after him on a feeling versus an actual charge or even a complaint filed somewhere with supporting criminal evidence.<\/p>\n
I make a lot of people uncomfortable without ever touching them, in a career of management touching people has long been taboo. As a manager there also has to be something substantive for me to take action, hostile work environments require more than a feeling of discomfort to litigate successfully.<\/p>\n
This is why a lack of formal complaints filed with an appropriate legal body make this attack on Joe Biden completely inappropriate for me. The \u201cfeelings\u201d of discomfort could easily have been solved by simply telling Mr. Biden to never touch them that way again.<\/p>\n
Should Joe Biden stop touching women? Of course, that should have been discussed with him decades ago, for this very reason. But based on his upbringing and the fact he appears to be one of those touchy-feely huggy sons a bitches I can\u2019t see how this would disqualify him from the presidency in any way, shape, or form. There are dozens of other reasons he should never be president in my opinion, and I\u2019m always happy to discuss and explain those reasons with anyone having some time to kill.<\/p>\n
We need to stop the asinine rhetoric and get back to a more substantial debate over actual policy views and processes to achieve those visions. That\u2019s probably not likely but one can dream.<\/p>\n
For the TL:DR crowd the synopsis is this, I\u2019m not going to be joining the chorus of voices talking about Biden being unqualified for his alleged inappropriate touching. I will be among those talking about his disastrous views on a variety of political issues and his close association as Vice President to one of the least transparent and honest administrations in our history.<\/p>\n
Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n
VoV<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, well, there are enough legitimate political issues Joe needs to address, and I won’t go into them here. Thanks, V, for being the adult in the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"