Scarborough: No matter how this race ends, I'm proud of Joe Biden

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-matter-how-this-race-ends-im-proud-of-joe-biden/2020/02/12/74b64672-4dc4-11ea-b721-9f4cdc90bc1c_story.html



By Joe Scarborough
Feb. 12, 2020 at 6:09 p.m. EST

Joe and Jill Biden retreated to the big bathroom upstairs in their Delaware home to sort through the loss. For a proud man long driven by a belief that God had a special plan for his life, this latest humiliation was shattering. Sensing her husband’s pain, Jill told Joe, “It’s hard to smile.”

“I know,” he replied, but Biden characteristically did his best to look forward while speaking of better days ahead. Richard Ben Cramer’s classic work on the 1988 presidential campaign, “What It Takes: The Way to the White House,” movingly described how Joe Biden’s departure from that contest would be followed by even more harrowing events in the coming months.

In February 1988, Biden would suffer a brain aneurysm and find himself at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where his doctor told the senator that his chance of survival was less than half. Even if Biden lived, the doctor continued, a long list of physical and mental limitations were likely.

Fifteen years after losing their mother and sister in a shattering car accident, Biden’s sons, Beau and Hunter, were called to their father’s bedside after a priest delivered last rites. Cramer wrote that there was no need for the critically ill man to make things right with his boys or to even say that he loved them. Joe Biden had made that obvious his entire life, refusing to let anyone step in to help raise them after his young wife died.

“Joe didn’t want anybody else raising his kids,” Cramer wrote. “He was there every night, every weekend. They had stories at bedtime, games of catch on the lawn, outings, trips, places to go. . . . The boys never saw the air out of Joe’s lungs. Not once. He would not allow that.” From his hospital bed, Biden let his boys know that he didn’t need to see them grow into men to know that he would be proud of them; he was proud of them already.

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Couldn't agree more!

[hlthe2b]

1. Never have been and never will be a Scarborough fan, but at least this shows some integrity...

and willingness to speak the truth. Even the vile Meghan McCain has similarly done so in support of Biden.

You don't have to support Biden, but I find it beneath anyone to attack him personally--especially given the unmatched and unconscionable attacks coming from the WH in an "official" manner. That includes his once fellow Senators. Karma will come one day.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. He actually doesn't suck as a musician (to say something nice about Scar)

I've heard his stuff and it's half-way decent.

That said, While I appreciate how Joe S and other Repugs (or now ex-Repugs, like Joe) have stood by us in our battle to save the country from Trump, when they start telling us which of our candidates to support (like Max Boot and David Frum), I'll tell them to fuck-the-fuck off. **Their party chose Trump and started all of this!**

[Movbez4]

2. Agree

Between the attacks from Trump and Sanders, it has been an unrelenting assault on a great human being, which is quite sad! I don't always agree with Joe's opinions, but he has always been a fighter and a decent man, so these attacks are sickening to me. I still feel that Biden or Bloomberg are the only two candidates that can beat Trump, but time will tell.

[UniteFightBack]

11. Don't worry the Democrats rallied around Joe and created a firewall around him. Oh wait no that

didn't happen.

[Iliyah]

3. K & R!

[quickesst]

5. thank you Joe Scarborough....

.... for a sincere and gracious statement.

[OKNancy]

6. Mika just read the whole editorial written by Joe S.

It was very moving IMO.

[Silver Gaia]

8. Just heard that, too, and have to agree.

[brutus smith]

7. Wow! an endorsement from joey scum.

[Jarqui]

9. I've always like Joe

I am distressed with some of what has been done to him.
It's not right.
Whether he's your preference for President or not, he's a very good man.
After near 50 years of political life, he didn't have enough money to pay for his son's cancer treatments. If you've followed Washington, you know the vast majority cash in long before 50 years comes around. Not Joe. He made some money speaking and selling a book or something since leaving the White House.

So the Republicans smear the one thing he spent his lifetime proving: integrity because they're afraid of it.

What they've done to him is sickening.
Joe's fellow GOP Senators - many people he served with - stabbed Joe in the back with their impeachment vote. And they know it.
Not enough outrage is being expressed.

It has sucked the wind out of my sails.
America loses.

[UniteFightBack]

10. " I always like Joe, He would be a great Prez...but I just won't back him or vote for him..."

said most Democrats....JUST SAVE IT!

[Dennis Donovan]

12. They *begged* him to run at a time he was happily retired

They BEGGED him! Now, he's being discarded. That's the unkindest cut of all, IMO.

[UniteFightBack]

13. All I know is the deplorables in my life are thrilled that Joe is at the bottom for now, THRILLED.nt

[Skya Rhen]

14. Scarborough is "praising" Biden while he's openly pushing for Bloomberg. So fake.

[oasis]

15. Biden's the One.

[UncleNoel]

16. Appreciate the thoughts, but it is way too early for an obituary!!

Joe is not down out here, only back there in Iowa and NH. That is over. Out here, there is a clear pathway for Joe.