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LakeArenal

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48. Parsing every word. AGAIN

Tue Feb 25, 2020, 02:27 PM

Feb 2020

If I was detained and not allowed to leave in a foreign country I would be freaked to the max. I would think of it as arrested.
Especially when it was years ago without the tech to straighten out the situation.

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

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Biden WAS held up at the SA airport for refusing to separate from AA Congressmen there with him. [View all] highplainsdem Feb 2020 OP

K&R. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #1

Thank you! BlueCaliDem Feb 2020 #2

Biden is to me positive and energetic and composed every time I see him. Prosper Feb 2020 #50

Thank you. Tired of this crap. DarthDem Feb 2020 #3

Post removed Post removed Feb 2020 #7

I figured there had to be some truth to the story. honest.abe Feb 2020 #4

Oh no, NOW you're done it! Will the people here who claimed it never happened retract... George II Feb 2020 #5

Nah, but they look a bit silly if they keep saying...best course is to pretend it didn't happen... Demsrule86 Feb 2020 #19

Nope PatSeg Feb 2020 #37

Why? jberryhill Feb 2020 #97

Nope!!!! DarthDem Feb 2020 #102

Good! IluvPitties Feb 2020 #6

Nice try, but not an arrest. doxyluv13 Feb 2020 #8

welp HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #10

This election is a shitshow. BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #13

Illustrating the character of your candidate again, eh? LanternWaste Feb 2020 #36

Huh? BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #38

How about detained?? honest.abe Feb 2020 #14

Apartheid South Africa ProgressDiv Feb 2020 #67

Exactly. I was playing semantics with that person I replied to. honest.abe Feb 2020 #84

If someone won't let me leave and locks me up somewhere, I consider it being detained or Demsrule86 Feb 2020 #18

You obviously don't watch Live PD Boomer Feb 2020 #32

Yeah, I didn't watch "The Apprentice" either ProgressDiv Feb 2020 #68

Huh - that is definitely not what we are taught in NY - you do not allow someone jmg257 Feb 2020 #105

And a millionaire ain't "rich", just a man of the people... LanternWaste Feb 2020 #34

Yes it is, I went through this on a Federal secuirty form, I was pissed at what they called an arres uponit7771 Feb 2020 #42

Nobody cares. This is silly. yardwork Feb 2020 #56

The word "arrest" originates with with the French word for "stop." MineralMan Feb 2020 #58

Whatevah chuckles Loki Liesmith Feb 2020 #101

"So that sounds as if they were blocked, too, at the time." jberryhill Feb 2020 #9

+1 jalan48 Feb 2020 #11

The New York Times has evidence of this...maybe Young forgot it or didn't consider it Demsrule86 Feb 2020 #15

The New York Times has evidence of what? jberryhill Feb 2020 #76

Because Young unfortunately had more experience with being blocked/detained/arrested, and Biden highplainsdem Feb 2020 #20

I read this morning that Young did say they were detained OKNancy Feb 2020 #80

I would be interested to see that further statement of Ambassador Young jberryhill Feb 2020 #82

Boom. cwydro Feb 2020 #89

I figured as much...you would think they would have figured it out by now...with corn pop? Is that Demsrule86 Feb 2020 #12

K&R nt redqueen Feb 2020 #16

That's a detention, not an arrest cannabis_flower Feb 2020 #17

Maybe in the United States, but that happened in South Africa in 1976. George II Feb 2020 #21

From the description I just read.. cannabis_flower Feb 2020 #22

and we should all have encyclopedic nuanced definitions at the ready all the time. lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #24

Well cannabis_flower Feb 2020 #25

as sdomeone who has been "detained" by police before lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #30

As much as it "felt" like cannabis_flower Feb 2020 #35

Like I said... Joe should be more careful when choosing his language. lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #41

A brief detention of a US Senator on a diplomatic mission would be HUGE news jberryhill Feb 2020 #96

He's a graduate of Syracuse U Law School and practiced criminal defense law jberryhill Feb 2020 #70

Semantics honest.abe Feb 2020 #28

He couldn't leave, that's an arrest uponit7771 Feb 2020 #72

I probably would have used the word arrested, too. Not detained or detention. LizBeth Feb 2020 #23

You are right cannabis_flower Feb 2020 #39

Really? squirecam Feb 2020 #54

This Turbineguy Feb 2020 #26

Biden is a damned fine man. Was then. Is now. Poeraria Feb 2020 #27

I love uncle Joe but this is painful to watch joost5 Feb 2020 #29

His speech is rote, hurried and he's not really listening to himself at all. BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #33

When Biden paces himself and speaks from the heart he can command a room joost5 Feb 2020 #43

The only good thing, if he did become the nominee, is that both he and Donnie Dump BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #47

Wow... just wow padah513 Feb 2020 #79

Wow what? Joe is obviously tired. Probably all the candidates in their 70's are tired, because BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #81

Yes. In fact, in those cases he has a real gift. emmaverybo Feb 2020 #78

::sigh:: Grendam Feb 2020 #31

+1000 eom counting Feb 2020 #61

You need to get this out there cherryinpa Feb 2020 #40

K&R quickesst Feb 2020 #44

I remember about the hold up . . . Iliyah Feb 2020 #45

Held Up means Arrest to Biden?? Ahhhh....Isn't he a lawyer? nt USALiberal Feb 2020 #46

Arrest means to stop, from old French "arester," to stop. ucrdem Feb 2020 #55

Wow, really? nt USALiberal Feb 2020 #60

Yes, I went through this with a security form ... they didn't delinate the too ... pissed me off uponit7771 Feb 2020 #73

It's a long flight. He was having a rest. jberryhill Feb 2020 #95

Yes, he is jberryhill Feb 2020 #71

Parsing every word. AGAIN LakeArenal Feb 2020 #48

He's a lawyer for gods sake! He knows what an arrest is!!! nt USALiberal Feb 2020 #49

Not a lawyer in SA LakeArenal Feb 2020 #51

LOL, ok! nt USALiberal Feb 2020 #52

I'm talking parsing words LakeArenal Feb 2020 #59

Lawyers are not automatons treestar Feb 2020 #83

Lets just agree most would know when they were arrested! Nt USALiberal Feb 2020 #85

Not in a foreign country treestar Feb 2020 #86

LOL, the guy with him knew they were not arrested.......... USALiberal Feb 2020 #87

Because he was dutifully avoiding the "whites only" line jberryhill Feb 2020 #90

Humans recall things differently treestar Feb 2020 #107

Yeah jberryhill Feb 2020 #108

Biden wasn't there treestar Feb 2020 #112

that wasn't the point treestar Feb 2020 #106

Oh give it a rest jberryhill Feb 2020 #109

I might. treestar Feb 2020 #111

K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Feb 2020 #53

I think this is more than fair to point out. Tom Rinaldo Feb 2020 #57

Andrew Young says it did not happen. former9thward Feb 2020 #62

Well this is about apartheid and there were 2 separate entrances FakeNoose Feb 2020 #63

It is highly unlikely that Andrew Young would have put up with that jberryhill Feb 2020 #74

No he didn't, he said "I don't think he was". George II Feb 2020 #98

Yeah, A Senator with him is arrested and he doesn't know about it. former9thward Feb 2020 #99

He couldn't see it from the "colored" line he was standing in jberryhill Feb 2020 #100

joe pamdb Feb 2020 #64

Biden has entered the avant-garde phase of his campaign Politicub Feb 2020 #65

Thank you! Cha Feb 2020 #103

I take back calling him a "Lyin' dog-face pony soldier." (nt) JaneQPublic Feb 2020 #66

He said he was arrested in the streets of Soweto melman Feb 2020 #69

Both Andrew Young and Charles Diggs went along with it, apparently? jberryhill Feb 2020 #75

Unlike Rethugs or the UK's David Cameron, who used to parade with 'Hang Mandela' signs sandensea Feb 2020 #77

Oh for crying out loud. cwydro Feb 2020 #88

It was an embellishment that got out of hand jberryhill Feb 2020 #110

You do realize this is entirely circular jberryhill Feb 2020 #91

According to the WaPo article, Joe said Mandela personally thanked him for getting arrested-- BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #93

Yeah, I saw that jberryhill Feb 2020 #94

Thank you for posting this Gothmog Feb 2020 #92

Another reason why Biden's the One. oasis Feb 2020 #104