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Biden mentions rape in criticizing Republicans
The Hill ^ | 3/18/11 | Sam Youngman

Posted on 03/18/2011 4:53:39 PM PDT by Nachum

Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a fundraiser in Philadelphia Friday, compared Republicans in Congress to people who excuse rapists by blaming their victims.

 The vice president, known for speaking his mind and at times putting his foot in his mouth, said that Republicans who want to cut spending while at the same time cutting taxes for the wealthy are similar to rape apologists. In setting up his comparison, the vice president explained to the audience that before the Violence Against Women Act that he championed was passed into law, “there was this attitude in our society of blaming the

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KEYWORDS: biden; civility; criticizing; mentions; rape
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1 posted on 03/18/2011 4:53:42 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 03/18/2011 4:54:24 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Is this some more “civility” the left was lecturing us about?

/sarc


3 posted on 03/18/2011 4:56:12 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: Nachum

The wealthy are Americans too. How come being treated equally by law under the 14th amendment does not apply to them.

Would it be right to tax blacks more to cover the cost of black neighborhood in the crime and medical and education costs?


4 posted on 03/18/2011 4:56:20 PM PDT by edcoil (Rule One: Fear No Man)
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To: Nachum

Damn leftists.

First they denigrate the events of the second world war by labelling anyone who disagrees with them ‘nazis’,

now the VP (I know it’s a joke, but this man really is the VPOTUS) denigrates the victims of rape by using their pain to attempt to smear his political adversaries.

Leftists DISGUST me.


5 posted on 03/18/2011 4:56:58 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
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To: Nachum

So let me get this straight. We’re now not just racists, but now racists rapists?


6 posted on 03/18/2011 4:57:11 PM PDT by conservativegramma
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To: edcoil
Would it be right to tax blacks more to cover the cost of black neighborhood in the crime and medical and education costs?

Hmmm, I'll have to kick that one around for a while ;)

7 posted on 03/18/2011 5:03:47 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: Nachum

LOL. The new civility.


8 posted on 03/18/2011 5:04:23 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Nachum

Uh, rape apologists...does that include ‘well it wasn’t rape rape’, and that didn’t come from Republicans..


9 posted on 03/18/2011 5:04:43 PM PDT by Freddd
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To: conservativegramma

“We’re now not just racists, but now racists rapists?”

Yes. Simple “racist” accusations were losing their sting from overuse.

Actually, this is the tactic the unions used in CO to defeat Ken Buck.


10 posted on 03/18/2011 5:05:57 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Nachum
“there was this attitude in our society of blaming the victim,"

"Hey...It works!!!!"

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11 posted on 03/18/2011 5:06:47 PM PDT by digger48
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To: ConjunctionJunction

Bump.


12 posted on 03/18/2011 5:09:53 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: Nachum

I say this a lot facetiously, as I often know how dems think but prefer to feign ignorance so as to point out the illogicality of their logic. However, this time I have no idea what his analogy means, nor what he was clumsily trying to mean.


13 posted on 03/18/2011 5:12:36 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Nachum

What are in the minds of these people? The Vice President is a perv.


14 posted on 03/18/2011 5:13:46 PM PDT by eaglestar
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Imagine if a Republican had said this..


15 posted on 03/18/2011 5:15:43 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Radical Islam is a bigger threat than the LDS.)
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To: Nachum

“before the Violence Against Women Act that he championed was passed into law”

Oh yeah, remember way back then, before it was illegal to rape women. Those were the days.

By the way, that particular act must have been passed before the LGBT “community” rose to power, as in that case it would have been the Violence Against Women, “Women,” Womyn, and Men Who Are Raped By Latently Homosexual, Closeted Males Who Can’t Deal With Their Inner Truths and Have Been Socialized Into Sublimating Their Sexual Feelings Into Violence Against “The Other” Act.


16 posted on 03/18/2011 5:16:34 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Nachum
Wow that's some nerve Joe.

Peace Corps Gang Rape: Volunteer Says U.S. Agency Ignored Warnings

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/peace-corps-gang-rape-volunteer-jess-smochek-us/story?id=12599341

More than 1,000 young American women have been raped or sexually assaulted in the last decade while serving as Peace Corps volunteers in foreign countries, an ABC News 20/20 investigation has found.

In some cases, victims say, the Peace Corps has ignored safety concerns and later tried to blame the women who were raped for bringing on the attacks.

17 posted on 03/18/2011 5:20:17 PM PDT by txroadkill ( We are sooooooooo screwed)
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To: Nachum
The only rapists I can think of in politics are a Clinton and a Kennedy. So tell me again how this applies to Republicans?


18 posted on 03/18/2011 5:21:16 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (If every person were like Sarah Palin, this world would be a peaceful, beautiful world to live in.)
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To: Nachum

Just call him “Civility Joe”.

Stand up Chuck!


19 posted on 03/18/2011 5:42:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
The Kennedy that ran into a tree was charged with statutory rape,
iirc. His family babysitter. Being in MA, it probably got
"broomed" as they say.
20 posted on 03/18/2011 5:44:38 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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