2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe thing that could hunt Biden if he jumps in the race. The Bin Laden raid
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/joe-biden-bin-laden-raid-defense-hillary-clinton-2016-campaign-121779.html?hp=rc3_4MADem
(135,425 posts)Metric System
(6,048 posts)bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)Can't blame Hillary on that vote she wasn't there in fact I firmly believe that if Hillary Clinton was in the Senate at that time she would of voted against Thomas because of the sexual harassment of Anita Hill
jfern
(5,204 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Metric System
(6,048 posts)bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)Someone I forgot who wrote it in there book
Metric System
(6,048 posts)DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)But his treatment of Anita Hill will.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)and being on the wrong side of it is something that would feed the Republican narrative on national security, which frankly, people care a lot more about than emails. Also, it takes away the luster of Biden being Obama's VP.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Bin Ladin...
Clarence Thomas (he's on record saying he would not have voted to confirm him).
jfern
(5,204 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)when Greg Kinnear is done with him in the 2016 HBO release, his legacy on that score will be tarnished in the eyes of a new generation who were too young to remember just how he misused his chairmanship.
I urge you to go to YOUTUBE and have a good, hard look at his posturing. No friend to women, he.
He and Mrs. Scooter Libby, his staffer, made sure that Clarence would end up on the Supreme Court by trashing a graceful and intelligent woman and concealing the corroberation of her testimony.
There are many, many, MANY people who, when reminded of that, will not treat him kindly.
Anita is alive, well, and garnering honors at Brandeis. She'll have something to say too, I should imagine.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Sheesh.
He put Thomas in that justice's robe just as surely as if he'd dressed him and patted him on the head and sent him over to the court, personally.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)harassment. Clarance Thomas lied, that should never be 'forgiven' like it was and still is today. I wish there was a way to get him off the SC.
Anyway, if Biden wins the D primary I'm sure that will be just one of the things used against him by the republicans.
MADem
(135,425 posts)They discovered to their great dismay that they were mistaken. I remember women being outraged, no, LIVID, at the way Hill was treated. And, as I said, it didn't get better with time.
That business--and a few other things (the stolen Neil Kinnock speech, the confabulations in his early years, his health issues) will be used relentlessly against him, and hay will be made while the sun shines. No one wanted to vote for him for POTUS the last two times, I can't imagine what he thinks has changed. He's a great helper, but he's not Top Dog material.
I was astounded that he came back from this:
But in America, there are always 2nd acts, I guess...