Democratic Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) wants to be president. So he's doing what all good Republicans do, he's touring the south and making pro-slavery comments to woo the crowds because, I guess, potential presidential candidates just assume that all southerners are still racists pigs. (Then again, the audience loved it, so there you go.)
From CorrenteWire:
Biden was on a roll.Oh, but it gets better. You see, Joe Biden thinks one of the most important issues facing America today is how to make the Republican party stronger.
Delaware, he noted, was a "slave state that fought beside the North. That's only because we couldn't figure out how to get to the South. There were a couple of states in the way."
The crowd loved it.
Yes, you heard it right. The man who wants to be our next Democratic president is concerned that we need a strong Republican party.
The speaker was U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, a likely candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.Why is that, Senator? That would be the same Republican party that got us into a war based on a lie. A war over which they refused to provide their constitutionally-mandated oversight. This is the same Republican party that spent our nation into bankruptcy. That repealed our civil liberties and illegally spied on Americans. That demonized Democrats and civil libertarians, and most of our foreign allies, for political gain. That hates gays, and Mexicans, and blacks, and Jews, and Muslims, and women. That impeached Bill Clinton, that swift-boated John Kerry, that abandoned New Orleans, and threw itself into the hospital room of Terri Schiavo. This is the same Republican party that wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and dehumanize gays in the US Constitution. And it's the same Republican party that wants to make your party, Senator Biden, the Democratic party a permanent minority by using every dishonest, immoral and illegal trick in the book.
This Yankee senator quickly disarmed his conservative audience, many of whom came expecting partisan attacks on President Bush and Republicans in general. ...
"America needs, and I need, for the Republican Party to get back up," [Biden] said.
Tell us, Senator Biden, please, tell us. Why is it that America, and especially you, need the Republican party to get back up only weeks after we finally took it down?
Just whose party is Joe Biden running for?
And finally, Senator Biden gives us the following gem:
"The mid-term election may have been a rejection of the policies of this administration," Biden said. "But it was not an embrace of the Democratic program or the Democratic Party. We're in a state of flux right now and have a lot of problems that need to be resolved."He may be right, but it's not the kind of thing a senior Democrat should be saying in public. He should be sending the message that the election was a repudiation of them and an endorsement of us. Have you ever heard George Bush fail to claim a mandate, even when he's at 30% in the polls?
PS In a future installment, Joe in DC will share his own personal Joe Biden story. It's a real Christmas heart-warmer.
