Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: "Will Black Voters Still Love Biden When They Remember Who He Was?" [View all]uawchild
(2,208 posts)As I stated in my OP:
I think the single biggest favor anyone ever did for Biden was when President Obama selected him for VP.
It let Biden have 8 years of serving in the first African American presidential administration and THAT helped diminish a lot of Biden's problematic past positions on racial issues.
Biden's lack of political backbone in the past wasn't so much of an issue for when he ran as VP since VP's don't get held to the same level of scrutiny as the President does. People viewed VP Biden as good natured Uncle Joe, and even made kindhearted jokes about him washing his car in the White House driveway.
He wasn't taken seriously by most people as VP because to quote John Nance Garner, the vice presidency is not worth a bucket of warm spit.
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/53402
Now that Biden is running again for President, his record is going to be held to a much higher level of scrutiny, and that makes sense.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided