Washington Post's editorial board calls on Biden to address the Tara Reade allegation

Grajonca said:
Don't you just love how the Pussy Posse circle the wagons just like they did for Billy BJ. It's truly exquisite when their PC bollocks come back to bite them on their arses.

Of course Stacey Abrams has no doubts! Could you imagine that corpulent freak as a Veep?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...elling_the_truth_and_this_did_not_happen.html
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Except they aren't. All I've read here is that she should be heard and examination of facts. Your side said "I don't care that all my politicians are rapist"

Note the distinction between doubt and indifference.
 
Horse mierda.

Democrats-always believe the woman...unless it’s a Democrat who is being accused.
 
Phantasmal said:
I have decided I’m with Stacey, there are just too many holes in this woman’s story and she has shown low character

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And that's fine. I find the timing interesting. I also want to know if the accusers bread is being buttered.

Most of all, I want to know the truth, and know it quickly so Republicans can't just exploit doubt.
Is there some paper trail from 1990 or whenever this is alleged to have occurred?
 
"Three weeks ago, we reported on the many contradictions in Reade’s account, as well as the extreme changes in her attitude toward the former vice president. She has evolved from a woman who repeatedly praised Joe Biden for work he’s done to help end sexual assault in America, in 2017, to someone who now says Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993."

your source

No she starts this with no credibility. What, 20 years of Stockholm syndrome?
 
ziggy said:
TARA READE deserves to be heard, and voters deserve to hear her. They deserve to hear from Joe Biden, too.

The former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has yet to speak publicly about the allegation Ms. Reade has lodged against him: that when she was a member of his Senate staff in the 1990s, Mr. Biden pushed her against a wall and put his fingers up her skirt and then inside her. Mr. Biden’s campaign says “this never happened.” Contemporaneous accounts of Ms. Reade’s claim are counterweighted by the denials of her superiors at the time that she reported any misconduct, as well as inconsistencies in her retelling.

There are, at the moment, no clear conclusions. There may never be. But that is no excuse for not searching. One place to start is the records covering Mr. Biden’s 36-year Senate career, donated to the University of Delaware in 2012 and slated for release to the public two years after Mr. Biden “retires from public life.” These could contain confirmation of any complaint Ms. Reade made, either through official congressional channels or to the three other employees she claims she informed not specifically of the alleged assault but more generally of harassment. They could also contain nothing of the sort. Insisting on an inventory doesn’t mean one believes Ms. Reade or doesn’t believe her. It signals only a desire for the public to know all that’s able to be known, which ought to be in everyone’s interest.

There are 1,875 boxes and 415 gigabytes of electronic content, largely uncatalogued. Searching won’t be as easy as some might assume. But an inventory conducted with an eye toward releasing only relevant material could at least ascertain whether personnel records are part of this archive at all. Demands for the release of the entire trove invite a worthwhile debate about candidate disclosures, yet that’s not a battle that needs to be fought today. The narrower question is whether the public ought to have as much information as possible about an assault accusation against a presidential contender, and the answer is yes.

Another place to look is at the source: the candidate himself. Mr. Biden may have little to say besides what his campaign has already said — that he did not do this, and that this is not something he ever would do. Yet the way to signal he takes Ms. Reade’s case seriously, and the cases of women like her seriously, is to go before the media and the public ready to listen and to reply.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...a36694-8a45-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html
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Indeed.
 
Micawber said:
And that's fine. I find the timing interesting. I also want to know if the accusers bread is being buttered.

Most of all, I want to know the truth, and know it quickly so Republicans can't just exploit doubt.
Is there some paper trail from 1990 or whenever this is alleged to have occurred?
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They can not find a complaint she supposedly filed with the Senate, there is no record. No one from Joe’s office remembers any kind of sexual assault complaint filed. They do know of women who complained about his invading personal space. NPR and The New York Times have investigated her story and they find it full of holes.
 
Phantasmal said:
They can not find a complaint she supposedly filed with the Senate, there is no record. No one from Joe’s office remembers any kind of sexual assault complaint filed. They do know of women who complained about his invading personal space. NPR and The New York Times have investigated her story and they find it full of holes.
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“The New York Times is facing blowback after its executive editor admitted to removing a controversial passage in a story focusing on a 1993 sexual assault allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.”
thehill.com

Democrats-always believe the woman, unless the accused is a Democrat.
 
Ronan Farrow found Reade not credible! That says a lot to me. He is an excellent investigative journalist on sexual assault issues.
 
ziggy said:
TARA READE deserves to be heard, and voters deserve to hear her. They deserve to hear from Joe Biden, too.

The former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has yet to speak publicly about the allegation Ms. Reade has lodged against him: that when she was a member of his Senate staff in the 1990s, Mr. Biden pushed her against a wall and put his fingers up her skirt and then inside her. Mr. Biden’s campaign says “this never happened.” Contemporaneous accounts of Ms. Reade’s claim are counterweighted by the denials of her superiors at the time that she reported any misconduct, as well as inconsistencies in her retelling.

There are, at the moment, no clear conclusions. There may never be. But that is no excuse for not searching. One place to start is the records covering Mr. Biden’s 36-year Senate career, donated to the University of Delaware in 2012 and slated for release to the public two years after Mr. Biden “retires from public life.” These could contain confirmation of any complaint Ms. Reade made, either through official congressional channels or to the three other employees she claims she informed not specifically of the alleged assault but more generally of harassment. They could also contain nothing of the sort. Insisting on an inventory doesn’t mean one believes Ms. Reade or doesn’t believe her. It signals only a desire for the public to know all that’s able to be known, which ought to be in everyone’s interest.

There are 1,875 boxes and 415 gigabytes of electronic content, largely uncatalogued. Searching won’t be as easy as some might assume. But an inventory conducted with an eye toward releasing only relevant material could at least ascertain whether personnel records are part of this archive at all. Demands for the release of the entire trove invite a worthwhile debate about candidate disclosures, yet that’s not a battle that needs to be fought today. The narrower question is whether the public ought to have as much information as possible about an assault accusation against a presidential contender, and the answer is yes.

Another place to look is at the source: the candidate himself. Mr. Biden may have little to say besides what his campaign has already said — that he did not do this, and that this is not something he ever would do. Yet the way to signal he takes Ms. Reade’s case seriously, and the cases of women like her seriously, is to go before the media and the public ready to listen and to reply.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...a36694-8a45-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html
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Empty posturing, IMO.
 
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