I think this misses the point. What this should be about is the Democrats getting the best candidate possible who represents the main political platform ideals of the party, but also one without significant character issues that fly in the face of the women’s rights policies that the Democrats have admirably taken up in the last decade or so. That objective doesn’t have anything to do with Trump or the Republicans and their own policy and character flaws. Do the Democrats want to hold true to what they’ve been saying about holding men accountable for how they treat women, or do they only hold those positions about Republican men?
https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/28/joe-biden-tara-reade-senate-documents-university-delaware/ Pressure Mounts For Biden To Unseal Documents Related To Time In Senate, Tara Reade Pressure is mounting for 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden to unseal documents related to his time in the Senate as he faces increased scrutiny for allegations of sexual assault leveled against him by Tara Reade. Reade, who worked as a Senate staffer for Biden in 1993, has accused the then-senator of kissing her, touching her and penetrating her with his fingers without her consent. The Biden campaign has denied the assault and said it “absolutely did not happen,” and has not responded to many requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. Reade has said that she made harassment complaints to three Biden staffers, none of whom reportedly took action, and that she filed a written complaint with a “Senate personnel office” in 1993, according to The New York Times. She said she did not have a copy of this complaint, TheNYT reported. If Reade’s story is true, the complaint would likely be held in Biden’s Senate records, which are housed by the University of Delaware Library — Senate records that cover a wide swath of Biden’s political career but are being kept secret until Biden “retires from public life.”
Not being there ant not coming to a judgement at all, that particular I highlighted seems a bit farfetched. How does he get that far without more of a struggle? Unless it was allowed? I know if someone went to go that far on me and I didn't want it, there would be blood.
I’m just posting the related articles. I’m not in a boat that someone is guilty until proven innocent. I believe everyone is innocent until proven guilty. That doesn’t mean the story shouldn’t be vetted by the press.
Oh I totally get it. Just making an observation myself. Trying to be as unbiased as possible. All stories on our leaders should be vetted by the press. I just wish we had a press better at unbiased vetting. #sameteam
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/alyssa-milano-joe-biden-tara-reade-new-developments Joe Biden supporter Alyssa Milano changes tune on his accuser Tara Reade amid new developments
Come on, OB, the "why didn't she fight harder" crap is one of the slut-shaming lines used against way too many assault victims. A young intern, alone in a secluded spot, being quickly assaulted by her boss, who is more physically and politically powerful...I don't find it hard to believe at all.
I didn't mean it in that way and i'm by all means a supporter of women. IT just seems a violation of that depth would have left an immediate impact and been evident. My sister was molested as a teen and it caused her to lose half her hair for the next two years due to the stress. The analogy that she should have fought back harder was not a good one. I'm just saying the scars I would think, both emotional and physical would be more immediately evident, I suppose.
Everyone experiences and deals with stress differently. I'm very sorry to hear about your sister's experiences, but that sort of stress reaction is far from universal. Some people hold the trauma deep inside without it being evident to anyone--sometimes not even themselves until much later when it comes out unexpectedly.
It's possible, but unlikely, that definitive proof, or disproof, will emerge before the election. In which case it will be likely fatal or irrelevant, respectively. If nothing definite emerges, it will hinge on how much Trump campaign can make it an issue. They will certainly try very hard. My guess is that effort won't be super successful, partly because Trump's exposure on the same topic makes it an obviously hypocritical political gambit, and partly because the 'I love Putin' tweets makes Reade seem like less of an 'everywoman' and more like a political actor and/or kook. However, there's no doubt that at least a few Biden voters will be discouraged from voting, or pushed to a 3rd party, by the 'he's a rapist too' narrative. barfo
@barfo is right about being discouraged. A race between rapists was not what I had in mind for the elections. Fuck this.
There's been so much mud slung around, especially against Democrats, that it's going to take a whole lot more than some tabloid story to get me riled up. Could this story possibly be something along the lines of the Obama is not a citizen tabloid?
Mud slung around in here or in general. If you say in general, there is nothing close to the mud thrown at Trump. It’s not even a contest.
