Cory Booker Statement on Joe Biden Praising Segregationist Senators

[melman]

Link to tweet

[stonecutter357]

1. I think i will stay with Joe Biden ....

[wyldwolf]

32. As a veteran of several primary wars here, here's how it will go down

Those piling on Joe Biden will soon find themselves defending their preferred candidate for something others will find distasteful, they'll be reminded of this, and then will tie themselves in knots defending their guy/gal.

[onetexan]

36. Ditto

[Cha]

50. Black lawmakers get Biden's back amid 'segregationist' uproar

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287156148#top

[emulatorloo]

2. What happened to you writing positive threads about your favorite candidates?

You could make a great contribution to DU that way.

Looking forward to your next OP!

[melman]

4. Perhaps you should send a message to Sabrina Singh

and tell her you think Cory Booker should only release statements you find appealing.


here's her twitter


https://twitter.com/sabrinasingh24

@sabrinasingh24 - National Press Secretary @CoryBooker.

[emulatorloo]

7. Just because someone issues a negative press release doesn't mean we DU'ers have to promote it.

I personally am a little skeptical of press secretaries, of course your mileage may vary.

[melman]

10. Do you think Biden's comments should just be ignored?

I don't think we should just pretend that he didn't say these things. But your mileage may vary.

[emulatorloo]

12. Of course not. Not sure a press release is the definitive source though.

As others note below, there is some interesting “spin” in that press release. That’s to be expected, as that’s the job of press agents on a political campaign.

And that’s why I treat press releases somewhat skeptically

As I say I though you were going to start contributing positive threads rather than just negative ones.

DU undecideds need to hear about the candidates you love.

If Booker is one of your top choices, it would be fantastic to hear you make a case for him.

[melman]

15. As I told you last time

Be the change you want to see in the world. Where are all the wonderful uplifting threads you promised?

I can't find them but surely you must be posting some if you feel so strongly about it.


Please provide links to any I may have missed. Thanks.

[emulatorloo]

17. I don't post many OP's. You post a lot of OP's

I do post articles occasionally, but in general they are positive about Democracts or critical of Republicans. I may have posted negative articles in the past but that’s all over now.

So I am indeed being the change I want to see in the world.

During this primary I am not going to post negative articles about any of our our candidates.

I don’t think the primary electorate is interested in negative campaigning.

I also know DU undecideds like myself are hungry to learn more about our candidates from DUers who have candidates they admire and support. That would be wonderful for the community.

You are a very interesting person and a good writer. Really looking forward to a positive piece by you.

I know it will be great!

[LanternWaste]

13. All answers are responses. Not all responses are answers.

Yours was a deft response, but certainly not an answer to the question.

Perhaps, indeed...

[zentrum]

34. Agree Melman.

This kind of blinded-by-a-life-of-privilege has got to stop. Language stands for a lot because it often contains tacit power structures.

For me, this also re-raises Biden's history of support and alignment with Strom Thurman.

[George II]

45. Sabrina Singh didn't post Booker's statement on DU, someone else did.

[George II]

44. Bazinga!

[Skya Rhen]

3. I'm surprised he did not use the word "nauseated" as he did when insulting Obama for

criticizing the venture capitalists that Cory loves. I will never forgive him for his attack on Obama.

Cory has no credibility in the AA Community and this tweet won't help him, either...

[oasis]

47. Biden's point was, he could work with "mean" senators for the

sake of getting something done for the greater good. His rivals are seeking political advantage by twisting his meaning.

[NYMinute]

5. Oh how they spin things

All Biden was saying that he can be congenial with the WORST of them. He didn't say he agreed with them!!

Jeeeeeeeeebus.

[oasis]

48. Exactly. nt

[FloridaBlues]

64. Exactly, next time Sen Booker read the entire script.

[oasis]

67. Booker can flush his VP chances.

[mr_liberal]

6. He is misinterpeting what Biden said.

Biden didn't mean it as a joke, he meant that he got put down by that senator too who called him 'son'. It's not as bad as boy, but he's saying its something he had to ignore to get things done.

[gtar100]

27. I have a feeling this is exactly what Biden meant.

But it hasn't come across that way.

[mr_liberal]

33. Booker is politically motivated, he's competing with Biden for the same moderate voters. nt

[emmaverybo]

53. He is willfully misinterpreting because it gives him a spotlight moment. He is an able legislator,

very sharp and eloquent, with a dynamic personality, but far from a candidate who can win by landslide in the general.

[ucrdem]

8. Okay Cory.

This comes across as trying very hard to score a political point.

[SouthernProgressive]

9. Good statement from Booker. I still have Biden higher on my list. NT

[Duppers]

22. The problem is Biden is the only one beating Trump

By double digits in the polls.

[onetexan]

37. Bingo

[SouthernProgressive]

39. I try not to concern myself with that much at this point.

I'm not completely negating it. I want to see similar polls in about four months.

[PDittie]

11. Joe's doing it to himself.

Like he always does.

[phandancer917]

41. Biden's Gaffes

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Imagine if anyone with an 'R' said that.....

I will hold my nose and vote for Mr. Biden if it comes to that.

[LanternWaste]

14. The half-life of this current (alleged) concern is down to seven more hours. Tick-tock.

But I'll be damned if it doesn't allow for some seriously creative self-righteousness.

[Voltaire2]

16. Seems it has legs.

Oh well.

But don’t worry, Biden will come up with a replacement gaffe soon. He always does.

[bornsunny]

18. Biden may be a decent man,

but he's not the man to take the Democrats into the future.

[Voltaire2]

20. No shit.

His supporters appear to not even know who he is and what his track record is.

[emulatorloo]

19. I don't think the primary electorate cares too much about "gaffes" this time

Nor are they wanting negative “spin” or negative campaigning. They just want a Democratic President who will help the 99% and undo what Trump has done. All of our candidates are very capable of that.

[Voltaire2]

21. His supporters here obviously don't.

But he has this history of campaign malfunctions. We can do better.

[emulatorloo]

24. FWIW he's not the most gaffe prone of the group. Nobody cares about gaffes at DU unless

they are made by a candidate they don’t like. Then they want to use it as “proof” that candidate is the devil incarnate.

It is good DU isn’t representative of real world democratic voters.

Undecided here, looking forward to the debates.

[Voltaire2]

26. Again, Biden has a history of gaffe disasters.

He’s blown up his own campaigns.

[emulatorloo]

28. Yeah, sounds like the Devil Incarnate to me. I'm not going negative on any of our candidates

I’ll just say there are other candidates who are more gaffe prone than Biden. Pro-Republican MSM is going to try to turn any mistake into a “disaster!!!”.

Not going to participate in that, especially since the true Gaffe Disaster is Donald Trump. He has to go.

[onetexan]

38. As ive said before, his gaffes are minor infractions

His experience speaks volumes. This is why he's the one to beat.

[Demit]

31. Gaffes have brought down candidates in the real world.

Republican senator George Allen in 2006 and his "macaca" remark, for example.

[ecstatic]

55. Is there a such thing as a gaffe in the age of trump?

The grab 'em by the pussy guy? We are the gatekeepers on what can make or break a campaign, and it looks like Americans have decided that anything goes.

[Demit]

61. I'm beginning to think "gaffe" is too lighthearted a word for Biden's missteps.

He's not making social faux pas. He's revealing the way he actually thinks.

[ecstatic]

63. How so? What does he really think? As a "gaffe" prone person,

his opinions should be well documented by now. My take? He's typical but far less offensive than others in his age group, like Bernie, for example.

[MasonDreams]

35. Arrrrgh Everybody says you're a nice guy

Now you're playing some kind of game. What is next? this sentence was self deleted by it author.
These are not just mistakes. We absolutely cannot allow the party to be split, quit looking across the aisle, turn around we're right here. We're going to vote rhe grim reaper OUT. We're going to gain seats everywhere !! The nominee will be the next President. The party will give you good advice, take it !!

[Lordquinton]

40. Are you saying 7 more hours

until another gaff happens?

[BigOleDummy]

23. I think

Mr. Booker is well within his rights to speak his mind. A very capable politician and would make a fine President. I also think Mr. Biden is his own worst enemy and will continue to be so.

[Honeycombe8]

25. I missed something, I guess. When did Biden praise segregationists? nt

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[MasonDreams]

42. He did a eulogy for Strom Thurmond.

I would have found a way out of that gig.

[Honeycombe8]

49. First, I corrected my typo! Thx for not teasing about it. 2nd: Thurmond died years ago.

So Biden did a eulogy for him at that time?

I'll have to look that up and see what he said, and why he gave a eulogy.

[MasonDreams]

68. It is not really significant. And l know he's not a

racist or even generally insensitive on the subject. But I feel very strongly that he should not have used the " I can get along with rabid racists" example. I don't want to hear him say that VP Chaney is a descent guy again. Chaney's a disgusting war criminal in my book.
I still want to repeal the Bush tax cuts not comprise and make them permanent. The 1994 crime bill needs fixing, and 70% of us people still want a public option. Joe just ain't my guy. Of course, I'll vote for him, to win. There are 4or5 that Biden would be a better choice in the primary at this point.

[emmaverybo]

54. I missed it too. He praised the superficial civility it takes for people to get things done with

people with antithetical views, even with mean and distasteful sobs.

[Honeycombe8]

66. I see. nt

[AlexSFCA]

29. I'll give it a few months before Warren leads polls

[emmaverybo]

52. Here. She will lead here, already is. She will not win us the votes we need and not by the margin

we need in the general.

A plan in every pot is not the way to win the general. Does she have bipartisan negotiating skill? What are her foreign policy and relations qualifications? Does she have any stature on the world stage? Does she have a thorough working knowledge of how the White House works?

Can she honestly sell to moderate Dems, middle if the road independents, people who voted for Obama and then Trump, the centerpiece of her campaign, astronomically costly and untested programs she says can be paid by a new taxation system.

A whole new system when we must concentrate on rolling back the giveaways?

Educated ultra liberals respect her. This is a big country and it is not dominated by educated ultra liberals.

Big bold costly ideas, but not the wide ranging experience, knowledge, and job portfolio Joe has.

I will vote for her and support some of these programs, but I fear we will definitely lose the General again.

[FloridaBlues]

65. I'm sure her new tax hike on rich may have trouble getting passed

[TrunKated]

30. OK, I'm crossing off...

Bernie, Kirsten, and Cory from my list of candidates to consider in the Primary.

[Honeycombe8]

51. Why would Gillibrand have ever been on your list?

I haven't heard of anyone supporting her.

[TrunKated]

59. at this point...

I will ONLY vote for Joe in the primary. Everyone else is beginning to act desperate and they're pissing me off.

[Aaron Pereira]

43. It's a cynical and racially divisive wedge Booker is employing.

Really sorry to see him do this when Biden was only making a reference to their relationship as colleagues in the Senate.

[emmaverybo]

57. If we keep eating our own before the general, we are doomed. I wonder sometimes if all

posters here are “our own.”
Promote your candidates’ policies and qualifications. Promote their ability to take back this country and our democracy. Promote their ability to get the Magahats crawling back under the rocks they flooded out of.

[oasis]

46. N.Y. Mayor DeBlasio was far worse on Biden in Chuck Todd interview.

Of course, Todd gave him plenty leeway for the pile on.

De Blasio drops to the bottom of my available choices. As if he ever had a chance anyway.

[emmaverybo]

58. I can see why and how he would take ugly segregationist's views personally and passionately

oppose them, denounce them.
But he implies that Biden is one of them.
That fact discredits him.

[oasis]

62. De Blasio damaged his chances for a position in Biden's cabinet.

[Baclava]

56. Nope - story not going away - 'Racial uproar explodes among 2020 Democrats.'

Racial uproar explodes among 2020 Democrats as rivals attack Biden for comments about segregationists

Sen. Cory Booker called on Biden to apologize.

"You don't joke about calling black men ‘boys.’ Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to perpetuate white supremacy and strip black Americans of our very humanity," Booker said in a statement.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris — both presidential contenders — responded to Biden's comments.

"I’m not here to criticize other Democrats, but it's never OK to celebrate segregationists," Warren said. "Never."

Harris said she was "deeply" concerned about Biden's remarks.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-cites-segregationist-senators-he-recalls-past-civility-senate-n1019211

[TrunKated]

60. yeah..

I'm done with everyone but Joe in the primary.

[Gothmog]

69. According to Symone Sanders, Biden did not praise a segregationist

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

70. James Clyburn is siding with Joe Biden on this issue

This is very nice to see https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/20/why-joe-biden-is-so-defensive-over-his-remarks-about-segregationists/?utm_term=.ab8bb7949ad8

Biden has powerful Democratic backers on this: The highest-ranking African American member of Congress, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), told reporters Wednesday he understands where Biden is coming from and that he, too, worked with people such as Strom Thurmond. Other black Democrats in Congress tried to frame Biden’s words in charitable ways.

“I think the sentiment is something that we all know in the legislative body — that you work with people you don’t agree with,” Rep. Cedric L. Richmond (D-La.), a co-chairman of Biden’s campaign, said.

The Clyburn comment in particular is helpful to Biden. If there’s one friend in Congress you want to make as a Democratic presidential candidate, it’s probably Clyburn. He rules South Carolina Democratic politics, and South Carolina is the first early voting state with a majority black Democratic primary voters. Biden and his opponents will be campaigning in South Carolina this weekend at Clyburn’s famous fish fry.