Biden's "Mainstream" Characterization is what Conservatives Must Debunk
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The real significance of what Biden said is his use of the term "mainstream." Democrats regularly pass off so called "moderate" Dems as somehow different in kind from the "far left" Dems like Jesse Jackson, et al., despite the fact that the so-called mainstreamers support the same policies.
Somehow, the fact that some Dems use a different "tone" makes them mainstream even if their votes on issues and judges are the same. This is especially invidious in the South, where more conservative Democrats are regularly fooled into voting for candidates that talk the Southern conservative talk, but then get to Washington and don't walk the walk.
Biden, for instance:
1 - has voted against most all conservative SCOTUS judges;
2 - favors abortion rights even if the baby's feet are dangling from the vagina;
3 - favors and authors a resolution on the war that declares defeat and envisions managing a defeat rather than presenting a united front against the enemy in Iraq;
4 - told Iran that congress believes that our Commander in chief hasn't the authority to attack Iran unless the democratic majority first allows him, despite the constitution, our history and especially the war powers act which allows a president to do anything for 90 days. (Why would Biden and the Dems go out of their way to give aid and comfort to Iran and our enemies in Iraq?);
5 - favors higher taxes; and
6 - Recently called the Iraq War Bush's (not America's War); claimed Bush lied to get us into the war; and took us recklessly into the war, thus mimicking the Michael Moores, Cindy Sheehan's and Jim Webbs.
The list could be a mile long. One assumes Biden considers himself to be mainstream, and that Barack Obama fits into that Biden-defined mainstream.
The list is a liberal list that is in any way "mainstream" as defined by what a majority of Americans believe.
Theses views are held by the far left but they are also held by Biden, Levin, Bill Clinton, Hillary, and
the clean Obama.
Yet, they pass themselves off as mainstream based on superficial factors like "tone", occasional isolated policy compromises with Republicans and the use of synonyms that mean the same thing the so-called far left says.
This is the real danger.
Because let me be clear. I do not believe that Biden is a racist.
I do believe that he and the Democratic Party advance policies that are racist and proven failures, which is WORSE than a racist heart that doesn't pass such policies. I do believe that Biden has contempt for many of the blacks in his party.
It also gives cover for Democrats that are advancing a McGovernite face of weakness to the enemies of America (not just Bush) that live to kill us, even if they must die to do so.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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I'm very careful when talking about racism, because I tire of everyone calling everything under the sun racism. But, if Biden isn't a racist, then he has a very high disdain for the minority community in general, and his pandering, as well as the rest of the Democrat party, is worse than people out and out calling someone a racist name. That is completely overt and to be expected. But to be talked down to and pitied by someone who is your 'friend' can mentally reinforce any insecurities one may have. Biden is despicable.
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Biden defines mediocrity down.
Harry Reid is to ethics reform what HIV was to free love!
He's not the "let's take him out and lynch him" type of racist, or the "you sit in the back of the bus" type of bigot, but far, far worse.
Biden is the "you are too stupid to make it without my help" type of racist. He is the "you're gonna vote for me anyways, so why should I care what you say--like where else are you gonna go" type of bigot!