A newly unearthed clip of Joe Biden shows the then-senator referring to members of a female Confederacy group as “fine people” during a 1993 Senate hearing.
During the Senate confirmation hearing for then-Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Biden, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, made a surprising comment about the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), an organization committed to preserving Confederate statues with ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
Biden began his remarks by referring to a speech made on the Senate floor by Sen. Howell Heflin (D-Ala.), who was speaking in support of efforts by Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.) to deny renewal of a Confederate flag design patent to the UDC.
“I, too, heard that speech and, for the public listening to this, the senator made a very moving and eloquent speech. As a son of the Confederacy, acknowledging that it was time to change and yield to a position that Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun raised on the Senate floor, not granting a federal charter to an organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag as a symbol,” he said during the 1993 hearing.
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He is senile not crazy come on get it together man
ReplyDeleteHis statement was made based on what he knew from watching 'Gone With The Wind' three times as a kid. He loved the hoop skirts and dreamed of touching corset strings.
ReplyDeleteEwwwww
DeleteJoe Pedo also said DC schools had too many African Americans that drive down the performance of the school district and also drag down the numbers of graduates.
ReplyDeleteHe was right they are fine people. Only 2 % of the Southerners owned slaves and the largest and meanest slave owner was black. Joe Biden isnt fine people . he sold his soul to satan for a vote
ReplyDeleteGotcha again Biden !!!
ReplyDeleteThey are fine people.
ReplyDeleteHe just wants to smell some a$$.
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