Can We All Just Show Some Love for Vice President Biden?

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22. He made the decision to shut down the hearing without calling on

three other women who were waiting outside the room, prepared to tell their own stories confirming Anita's allegations.

And when he was questioning her, he often sounded like a Thomas defense lawyer.

Just think about it -- a whole panel of white male Senators, taking turns sharply questioning one black woman. It was a disgraceful scene that many women have not forgotten.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/biden-anita-hill-women-senate-clarence-thomas-213864

But that hasn't erased the memories of how Biden presided over those hearings as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, blamed for doing little to stop the attacks on Hill and opting not to call three other witnesses who would have echoed Hill's charges of sexual harassment. Biden almost apologetically gave Thomas the benefit of the doubt, critics say, and that stance helped put Thomas on the Supreme Court.

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Biden did “a disservice to me, a disservice more importantly, to the public,” Hill said in an interview last spring with The Huffington Post. Calling the other witnesses could have “helped the public to understand sexual harassment. He failed to do that.”

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Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School professor who represented Hill (and once had President Barack Obama as a student), said he's still mad about how Biden handled himself back then.

“I was shocked and dismayed that Joe Biden was asking questions that didn't seem appropriate and was not in her corner as a Democrat,” Ogletree said. “The point is that he's supposed to be neutral, but his questions to Anita Hill were as piercing as anyone's.”