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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvery time I see Biden with Harris I'm reminded what a good man he is
A lesser man like the former guy wouldve shunned Harris for that embarrassing moment in the debate.
Joe Biden did the opposite.
He had a wide field to choose from.
His choice set an example of decency for the world.
I love him for that.
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)I got to meet Joe twice in person at fundraisers back in 2019 before the COVID restrictions. Joe is a good man.
samnsara
(17,570 posts)canetoad
(17,088 posts)I know Joe has had a few shots at the Presidency, but this time around, from the whole field of candidates, he was the ONE who could beat Trump by being his polar opposite. The steady, experienced hand vs. the dilletantes and know-nothings.
sheshe2
(83,340 posts)brer cat
(24,401 posts)President Biden chose his VP very well.
LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)wonders for him. He respects both women and intelligence.
GopherGal
(1,999 posts)unlike TFG, who was way too insecure to associate with anyone other than sycophants. And we certainly saw what kind of swamp-dwellers he ended up with.
Quite a contrast to a "Team of Rivals" as Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote of Lincoln's cabinet.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Both of our leaders complement each other in ways which will never be matched by the other side.
Beastly Boy
(9,060 posts)fully acknowledging this in a woman of color.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)for this time
bigtree
(85,917 posts)...if you watched the two friends afterward, it wasn't the outrage people made it out to be.
Joe Biden acknowledged her broader point and moved on, but some people twisted it into something horrible and unforgiving. It's just weird, and they would have just buried Kamala Harris for what was a legitimate point, by belaboring the worst interpretation of what she said in the debate.
Let it go. It didn't take 'decency' to pick the person MOST Democrats polled said they wanted as Vice President.
JI7
(89,174 posts)ARandomPerson
(2,406 posts)... not in the way Harris used it, especially with the ready-made T-shirts. She went down in my estimation after that stunt.
bigtree
(85,917 posts)...it resonated with me.
With Joe Biden, too...
"Biden apologizes for remarks on segregationists.."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-invoking-obama-s-picking-him-vice-president-defend-record-n1027096
...he acknowledged the misstep weeks ago at a Democratic fundraiser when he noted he had to work alongside segregationists when he first joined the Senate, but did so with civility.
Now was I wrong a few weeks ago, to somehow give the impression to people that I was praising those men who I successfully opposed, time and again? Yes, I was, he said. "I regret it and I am sorry for any of the pain or misconception that may have caused anybody.
That's pretty decent.
JI7
(89,174 posts)by what she said in the debates.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)He doesn't stick her in an office somewhere out of sight like Trump did with Pence.