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In reply to the discussion: AOC throws Biden under the bus. [View all]Hekate
(90,616 posts)...and metastasizes.
Remember when it happened to Senator John Kerry? He was a genuine war hero, wounded in action, who commanded a "Swiftboat" in the Vietnam War. By the time the GOP was done with him, they had managed to search under every rock until they found a couple of disgruntled vets who were willing to lie about his record, and they painted Senator Kerry as a coward who lied about his service and lied about his documented wounds.
That is the meaning of "Swiftboating." Take something good and honorable about a person -- in the present case VP Biden's unblemished reputation as a devoted family man -- and find some lowlife willing to lie and smear until he's destroyed.
That's what's going on here. As far as I am concerned Ms Ocasio-Cortez can go to hell. I am done with her.