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Thu Aug 1, 2019, 04:09 PM

Aug 2019

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Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/joe-biden-didn-t-just-compromise-segregationists-he-fought-their-n1021626

Joe Biden’s controversial comments about segregationists ...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/19/...

Why Did Joe Biden Praise a Segregationist Southern Senator ...
2020 rivals slam the former vice president, who spoke fondly of the “civility” of his relationship with a Mississippi senator who once called to “abolish the Negro race”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-did-biden-praise-racist-senator-booker-deblasio-850220/

Biden says he was wrong in comments about segregationists
https://www.detroitnews.com/.../07/06/biden-apologizes-working-segregationists/39659765

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Harris did not laugh about putting 1500 people in jail for MJ violations as Gabbard claimed [View all] uponit7771 Aug 2019 OP

Joe Biden didn't work with segregationists on segregationist goals... LincolnRossiter Aug 2019 #1

um bigtree Aug 2019 #34

I don't believe the claims, but shouldn't ABC have fact-checked it and not just reported on the hlthe2b Aug 2019 #2

they could have easily done that, IMO. Why didn't they? CTyankee Aug 2019 #4

Gabbard is a Russian operative as far as I'm concerned underpants Aug 2019 #3

+1, that was an allegation I couldn't ignore uponit7771 Aug 2019 #5

It's a part of politics. NT SouthernProgressive Aug 2019 #6

We should not accept this in Dem primary anymore, 2016 was it uponit7771 Aug 2019 #7

It will be a part of the next primaries as well. SouthernProgressive Aug 2019 #10

I don't think that's the accusation FBaggins Aug 2019 #8

I quoted her uponit7771 Aug 2019 #12

You misread the quote, as I pointed out when you posted this earlier. highplainsdem Aug 2019 #17

And then added your own interpretation to what she meant by "it" FBaggins Aug 2019 #20

She laughed about smoking weed 5starlib Aug 2019 #9

The word "it" presumably refers to the part that comes after, not the part that comes before. thesquanderer Aug 2019 #11

This is false, when there's a before and after reference uponit7771 Aug 2019 #13

One is singular the other plural unc70 Aug 2019 #15

Distraction, when there's a before and after reference the it always about the first uponit7771 Aug 2019 #18

People don't always speak in perfect, unambiguous grammar. thesquanderer Aug 2019 #22

I'm pretty sure that attack was planned and prepared qazplm135 Aug 2019 #33

Good point, it could have been worded to be INTENTIONALLY ambiguous, thesquanderer Aug 2019 #35

Sigh. As I explained when you first posted about this in GD, and I replied before noticing you'd highplainsdem Aug 2019 #14

Your first statement is false on his face I can read the quote uponit7771 Aug 2019 #16

You're reading it incorrectly. Or do you think that Huffington Post and other media sources that highplainsdem Aug 2019 #19

She laughed when she was asked if she smoked weed on the breakfast club radio show... Demsrule86 Aug 2019 #23

Yes, I know. That's what I said, and why I posted the link to the interview. Which got a lot of highplainsdem Aug 2019 #26

Yes some misunderstood Gabbard....Kamala knew though...and she did put pot smokers in jail...it Demsrule86 Aug 2019 #28

And now Harris says the next debate needs to be "fully focused" on Trump. In other highplainsdem Aug 2019 #29

This! Suddenly it's different Thekaspervote Aug 2019 #37

Yes. You can see her doing that in the link to CNN video that I posted.. highplainsdem Aug 2019 #27

Gabbards quote is clear, your grmammtically wrong uponit7771 Aug 2019 #30

Again, news sources understood what Gabbard said. So did Harris and her campaign highplainsdem Aug 2019 #31

This might help... Demsrule86 Aug 2019 #25

If you are acting as a grammar Nazi flotsam Aug 2019 #38

I found a radio show where Tulsi got this... Demsrule86 Aug 2019 #21

See reply 14 above for a link to video of the interview. highplainsdem Aug 2019 #24

Reading comprehension tells me that your OP title is wrong. demmiblue Aug 2019 #32

As so many have explained Progressive dog Aug 2019 #36