Posted on 04/02/2019 11:20:42 AM PDT by conservative98
Why Democratic Candidates Can’t See Themselves Clearly
Ahem. In 2014, The Atlantic wrote a piece by Conor Friedersdorf entitled, “In Defense of Naked Joe Biden.”
Friedersdorf objected to what appeared to be leaks from the U.S. Secret Service about Biden’s behavior when he’s out of the public eye. Author Ronald Kessler wrote in his book, The First Family Detail, that “Agents say that, whether at the vice president’s residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude. Female Secret Service agents find the behavior offensive.”
Friedersdorf argued that what the vice president chose to do in his own pool on his own time was no one’s business but his own and he asked why skinny dipping in one’s own pool would qualify as a scandal. Then again, there are some in the political journalism realm who would insist that “the Pence Rule” is a real scandal.
Almost every human trait can be interpreted as a positive one or a negative one, depending upon the circumstances and who’s doing the interpretation. A guy I like is smart; a guy I don’t like is an insufferable know-it-all. Our mutual friend is experienced and seasoned; our mutual foe is old and past his prime. The guy we like is thoughtful and reserved; their guy is a quiet bore who has no personality.
For a long time, Democrats benefited from a media mentality that almost always interpreted their traits through the most positive lens.
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Because HE KNEW the media and bureaucrats would never dare call him on it.
Especially with Mdme. HilLIARy coming in to office next...
I remember a vid of Biden, flanked by security, trying to put the screws to Kristinn for protesting.
I’d forgotten about that.
Somewhere Al Franken is steaming mad.
“All I did was one grope. Just one lousy boob grope. And this guy? A career of groping! Unfair!”
Of course he got away with it. The “press” was never going to criticize a senior member of their Messiah’s administration.
I don’t think it was Biden. Raoul and I had an incident with Bob Kerrey outside the 9/11 commission report release meeting.
Wasn’t that former Nebraska senator Bob Kerry?
Guy to the right makes sure he looks away
I was waiting for security to haul you off, Kristinn.
He got away with it for a lot more than 8 years.
Eight? More like 50+
Since the press helped him get away with it for all of those years, why are they suddenly making a big deal about it now?
I wonder if he ever privately spoke about grabbing women’s pussies?
That could very well be the father of that baby & he’s looking away to avoid conflict.
Biden does it more but Franken made it too obvious, put his tounge down her throat, and grabbed her while she was sleeping. Biden is more natural and hides it better like the true predator he is.
The left is shafting him because they want a deeper leftist and they need him out of the way. That’s the only reason this is coming out now.
Bernie Sanders is behind it.
To be honest, skinny dipping in your own pool is hardly a big deal. Why assign female agents to watch him there anyhow?
Plenty of other stuff to knock him down on than this. Makes the Press look as puritanical as they claim the Religious Right is.
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