the other mike
Diamond Member
If nothing else the Democrats have become very predictable.
Letās be blunt: As a supposed friend of American workers, Joe Biden is a phony. And now that heās running for president, Bidenās huge task is to hide his phoniness.
From the outset, with dim prospects from small donors, the Biden campaign is depending on big checks from the rich and corporate elites who greatly appreciate his services rendered. āHe must rely heavily, at least at first, upon an old-fashioned network of money bundlers ā political insiders, former ambassadors and business executives,ā the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Biden has a media image that exudes down-to-earth caring and advocacy for regular folks. But his actual record is a very different story.
During the 1970s, in his first Senate term, Biden spouted white backlash rhetoric, used tropes pandering to racism and teamed up with arch segregationists against measures like busing for school integration. He went on to be a fount of racially charged appeals and āpredators on our streetsā oratory on the Senate floor as he led the successful effort to pass the now-notorious 1994 crime bill.
A gavel in Bidenās hand repeatedly proved to be dangerous. In 1991, as chair of the Judiciary Committee, Biden prevented key witnesses from testifying to corroborate Anita Hillās accusations of sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court. In 2002, as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, Biden was the Senateās most crucial supporter of the Iraq invasion.
Meanwhile, for well over four decades ā while corporate media preened his image as āLunch Bucket Joeā fighting for the middle class ā Biden continued his assist for strengthening oligarchy as a powerful champion of legalizing corporate plunder on a mind-boggling scale.
Now, Joe Biden has arrived as a presidential candidate to rescue the Democratic Party from Bernie Sanders.
Urgency is in the media air. Last week, the New York Times told readers that āStop Sandersā Democrats were āagonizing over his momentum.ā The story was front-page news. At the Washington Post, a two-sentence headline appeared just above a nice photo of Biden: āFar-Left Policies Will Drive a 2020 Defeat, Centrist Democrats Fear. So Theyāre Floating Alternatives.ā
Biden is the most reliable alternative for corporate America. He has what Sanders completely lacksāvast experience as an elected official serving the interests of credit-card companies, big banks, insurance firms and other parts of the financial services industry. His alignment with corporate interests has been comprehensive. It was a fulcrum of his entire political career when, in 1993, Sen. Biden voted yes while most Democrats in Congress voted against NAFTA.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/joe-biden-is-a-phony-plain-and-simple/
Letās be blunt: As a supposed friend of American workers, Joe Biden is a phony. And now that heās running for president, Bidenās huge task is to hide his phoniness.
From the outset, with dim prospects from small donors, the Biden campaign is depending on big checks from the rich and corporate elites who greatly appreciate his services rendered. āHe must rely heavily, at least at first, upon an old-fashioned network of money bundlers ā political insiders, former ambassadors and business executives,ā the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Biden has a media image that exudes down-to-earth caring and advocacy for regular folks. But his actual record is a very different story.
During the 1970s, in his first Senate term, Biden spouted white backlash rhetoric, used tropes pandering to racism and teamed up with arch segregationists against measures like busing for school integration. He went on to be a fount of racially charged appeals and āpredators on our streetsā oratory on the Senate floor as he led the successful effort to pass the now-notorious 1994 crime bill.
A gavel in Bidenās hand repeatedly proved to be dangerous. In 1991, as chair of the Judiciary Committee, Biden prevented key witnesses from testifying to corroborate Anita Hillās accusations of sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court. In 2002, as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, Biden was the Senateās most crucial supporter of the Iraq invasion.
Meanwhile, for well over four decades ā while corporate media preened his image as āLunch Bucket Joeā fighting for the middle class ā Biden continued his assist for strengthening oligarchy as a powerful champion of legalizing corporate plunder on a mind-boggling scale.
Now, Joe Biden has arrived as a presidential candidate to rescue the Democratic Party from Bernie Sanders.
Urgency is in the media air. Last week, the New York Times told readers that āStop Sandersā Democrats were āagonizing over his momentum.ā The story was front-page news. At the Washington Post, a two-sentence headline appeared just above a nice photo of Biden: āFar-Left Policies Will Drive a 2020 Defeat, Centrist Democrats Fear. So Theyāre Floating Alternatives.ā
Biden is the most reliable alternative for corporate America. He has what Sanders completely lacksāvast experience as an elected official serving the interests of credit-card companies, big banks, insurance firms and other parts of the financial services industry. His alignment with corporate interests has been comprehensive. It was a fulcrum of his entire political career when, in 1993, Sen. Biden voted yes while most Democrats in Congress voted against NAFTA.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/joe-biden-is-a-phony-plain-and-simple/