We Hit Peak 2019

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(12-11-2019, 10:45 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Well if that gets him in trouble, then Uncle Joe should be exiled for his comments about Obama before he was his running mate.

Biden's popularity among black people is very unusual to me. It's almost entirely because of his association to Obama, which I get, but he's said racially insensitive things for decades (not including the controversial bills he passed that relate to race). He called Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy" which is just...a ridiculous thing to say. Almost to an absurd degree.

Biden has this idea in his head (which he brought up during, I believe, the last debate) that he's "down" with black people and that's why Obama picked him as his vice president but it, ironically, was kind of for the exact opposite reason. Biden was chosen because, among other things, he was an old white man who would balance the ticket to a degree (young black man + old white man = everyone feels safe?) He was also chosen because of his relation to the Midwest, a place that is, objectively, more conservative and white than other portions of America.