A 2008 column in the far-left magazine CounterPunchaccusing Joe Biden of “loutish sexual advances” in the U.S. Senate has become a lightning rod in the debate over Biden and his former staffer Tara Reade’s allegation of sexual assault in 1993.
The article, written by the late Alexander Cockburn, lamented then-presidential candidate Barack Obama’s choice of Biden as a running mate in August 2008. Biden, in Cockburn’s view, was an empty and worthless swamp creature, a D.C. insider chosen purely to improve Obama’s electoral odds who would ultimately stifle any progressive agenda for the candidate of “Hope and Change.”
Yet just five paragraphs in, Cockburn made an aside about Biden’s character that accused him of harassing women who worked in the Senate, even while he was supposedly grieving over his wife’s death:
Biden is a notorious flapjaw. His vanity deludes him into believing that every word that drops from his mouth is minted in the golden currency of Pericles. Vanity is the most conspicuous characteristic of US Senators en bloc, nourished by deferential acolytes and often expressed in loutish sexual advances to staffers, interns and the like. On more than one occasion CounterPunch’s editors have listened to vivid accounts by the recipient of just such advances, this staffer of another senator being accosted by Biden in the well of the senate in the weeks immediately following his first wife’s fatal car accident. [emphasis added]
These three sentences have gone viral as the former VP, now the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, is trying to discredit Tara Reade, a woman who briefly worked for Biden’s office in the early 1990s.
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it's all coming to an end for old Uncle Joe. He would be gone already if he didn't have positive polling numbers.
ReplyDeleteI never did care for that PERVERTED GRINNING IDIOT.
ReplyDeleteDelaware sex offenders have always endorsed him so that explains a lot.
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ReplyDeleteIt's worth noting that the auto accident that killed his first wife and daughter occurred after he was first elected to the Senate but before he was sworn in. So if the allegation he was chasing skirt right after taking office is true he's doubly reprehensible. Sleazy piece of work; no wonder Hunter turned out so well.