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DURHAM D

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48. Yes

Reply to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Reply #47)

Tue Aug 25, 2015, 05:46 PM

Aug 2015

and pretended Joe was not on the ballot. While working in the campaign office in 2008 and 2012 if anyone started talking about Joe I just walked away from the conversation and never said a thing about how I felt.

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Joe Biden: the 2016 HBO movie, Confirmation, about the 1991 Hill/Thomas hearings, will hurt him [View all] pnwmom Aug 2015 OP

How could it not? MuseRider Aug 2015 #1

The hearings were a revelation to me. As a young woman I had been sexually harassed pnwmom Aug 2015 #4

Same here. MuseRider Aug 2015 #5

And who was heading the Equal Opportunity Commission at the time? pnwmom Aug 2015 #6

It is my experience that most women my age (or ours) MuseRider Aug 2015 #14

I vaguely remember this... CincyDem Aug 2015 #2

I remember all that. cwydro Aug 2015 #3

Why the random hate on Biden? GummyBearz Aug 2015 #7

It's not random. There are lots of stories out there now about how Biden pnwmom Aug 2015 #11

I see GummyBearz Aug 2015 #13

Not to me. DURHAM D Aug 2015 #20

Verbal public "stoning" is worse than voting to kill 100,000+ people... interesting priorities GummyBearz Aug 2015 #26

Biden acted alone on the Thomas hearings. DURHAM D Aug 2015 #28

And if Thomas had not been appointed BuelahWitch Aug 2015 #56

Biden voted for the IWR so I don't know why you are making that comment. pnwmom Aug 2015 #35

Yea GummyBearz Aug 2015 #44

Did you vote for Barack Obama twice? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2015 #47

Yes DURHAM D Aug 2015 #48

Well he is more genuine than Hillary, something that starting to matter to people it seems snooper2 Aug 2015 #16

More genuine? Well, he was genuinely a jerk in the hearings, pnwmom Aug 2015 #17

Sorry, we have to face that Biden had a huge role in getting the worst justice confirmed . . . brush Aug 2015 #27

+1. n/t pnwmom Aug 2015 #38

Because he could potentially harm Hillary LittleBlue Aug 2015 #32

This isn't a little "something." This is a huge "something" that put Thomas on SCOTUS, pnwmom Aug 2015 #36

Something from 24 years ago? brush Aug 2015 #50

I remember that arikara Aug 2015 #8

Biden was Chair of the committee and DURHAM D Aug 2015 #18

especially when he'd be stepping in to challenge a female frontrunner nt geek tragedy Aug 2015 #9

Sounds like Biden is old school in regards to women's rights Sienna86 Aug 2015 #10

He is old school. DURHAM D Aug 2015 #19

It should. BlueMTexpat Aug 2015 #12

This is true nt ismnotwasm Aug 2015 #15

Oh sure, people will flock to vote for those feminist Republicans. L. Coyote Aug 2015 #21

So, really, nothing Joe did should matter, then? Some of us are saying, right now, djean111 Aug 2015 #22

Everything Joe did should matter, and you are discussing one thing, ignoring the rest. L. Coyote Aug 2015 #37

How about Joe who voted for war, and Joe who pushed through the onerous bankruptcy bill? djean111 Aug 2015 #39

Biden is considering a run against Hillary, Bernie, and Martin. pnwmom Aug 2015 #23

Why didn't any of this come out when Obama ran? marlakay Aug 2015 #24

Anita Hill's book came out to warm reviews but not a whole lot of attention. pnwmom Aug 2015 #25

I highly recommend this book wheniwasincongress Aug 2015 #42

Not sure if I could stand reading it marlakay Aug 2015 #49

Maybe we should all order one MuseRider Aug 2015 #51

I don't think wheniwasincongress Aug 2015 #52

Then the Benghazi movie comes out January 15th madville Aug 2015 #29

and the person who actually wrote the violence against women act DonCoquixote Aug 2015 #30

That bill was passed in 1994 and was a good one. pnwmom Aug 2015 #34

not to play devil's arithmetic DonCoquixote Aug 2015 #57

Its not going to hurt. former9thward Aug 2015 #31

Lots of Dem primary voters will watch an HBO movie starring Kerry Washington and Greg Kinnear. pnwmom Aug 2015 #33

People don't care that is was 1991. wheniwasincongress Aug 2015 #43

2 women? I believe there were like 4 or 5 wheniwasincongress Aug 2015 #40

I don't think it will hurt Biden. You have to consider the times we were in. politicaljunkie41910 Aug 2015 #41

Thank you for your thoughtful post. pnwmom Aug 2015 #55

Especially since he's being played by Bobcat Goldthwait lame54 Aug 2015 #45

Make no mistake about the Thomas Hearings, Democrats didn't like the "optics" ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2015 #46

I never forgot realFedUp Aug 2015 #53

lest we forget the days of the doormat Dems of the Reagan/Bush era ericson00 Aug 2015 #54