Man Out Of Time
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The fact that Joe Biden was a moderate Democrat who was politically active and ambitious in the 70s is really not going to help him if he runs for president again:
When Joe Biden was a freshman senator in the mid-1970s, his home state of Delaware, like other hotspots across the country, was engulfed in a bitter battle over school busing, debating whether children should be sent to schools in different neighborhoods to promote racial diversity.
Biden took a lead role in the fight, speaking out repeatedly and forcefully against sending white children to majority-black schools and black children to majority-white schools. He played down the persistence of overt racism and suggested that the government should have a limited role in integration.
“I do not buy the concept, popular in the ’60s, which said, ‘We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race,’ ” Biden told a Delaware-based weekly newspaper in 1975. “I don’t buy that.”
Brown v. Board was effectively being overruled, and Biden was one the side of the overrulers. This is not good! Also, there’s also his tendency to keep boasting about his ability to form friendships with unrepentant white supremacists:
Find someone who loves you the way Joe Biden loves expressing grudging admiration for virulently racist Southern senators. pic.twitter.com/DNdSJFp97I
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) March 7, 2019
I have violated my own rules by stating categorically that Biden won’t be the Dem nominee in 2020; my official position is that as long as he’s leading in the polls he can’t be entirely written off like other candidates who are too far to the right to win the Democratic nomination in 2020 like Gabbard or Hickenlooper can be. But I still think he’s a lot more likely to be a “frontrunner” built on name recognition (like Lieberman in ’04) than an actual frontrunner. He has the same lack of discipline that helped make his first two presidential runs no-delegate disasters, his record is even further away from the center of the party than it was in 2008, and my guess is that the glow of his having been Obama’s vice president will fade pretty quickly if he enters the fray. Maybe he can overcome all that but…Betfair has him as a 4-1 shot and at those prices I’d say sell, sell, sell.