Why not spend your time firing shots at the other rapist?
The media has asked him dozens of times, he has declined to answer.
He was asked this question during an interview in person? When?
Not in person, no.
Profiles in courage from our media heroes
And so the responsible thing to do is to move on to other topics?
Before Trump, it was traditional for the losing party to get a few crumbs in the Cabinet. I can think of one Republican congressman in Obamaâs cabinet.
My statement above that the campaign declined to comment is wrong, they are denying the charge.
Also Joe Biden isnât his campaign and his campaign isnât Joe Biden. No one has ever asked Joe Biden about Tara Reade.
So much the worse for Obama.
I canât compromise with Biden on his willingness to cage people for minor drug offenses or for just trying to make a home in America
He doesnât believe in a system that provides health care to everyone
A sane country would reject anyone connected with the war crimes that were Iraq and the Drone Administration in favor of new leadership
Itâs just completely diseased that we even have to contend with Biden as a candidate before you even get to the weird touching and the apparent raping.
Incrementalism just isnât a humane response to all of these problems.
A big reason that most of these problems arenât solved is corporate money in politics. Biden answers to that money. Warren also answers to that money, though she did a better job of concealing that than most. When the forces lined up behind Biden, it was also a choice between big money and a completely grassroots funded campaign. Almost everyone in the political sphere chose poorly.
I may hold my nose and vote for the âbetterâ rapist warmonger. Maybe Iâd be more likely to if some of the unrepentant backers of corporate sellout candidates werenât on their high horse constantly squashing legitimate criticism of a terrible candidate.
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Plenty of shots to go around.
I hope you will all think about the irreparable harm you are doing to incrementalism ITT 
Yeah but, and hear me out, TRUMP BAD!
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Seriously, do all the people suggesting we move on from the Reade accusations really expect them to just go away because Trump is also a notorious alleged rapist? How did focusing entirely on âorange man badâ work out last time around?
Biden will totally govern as a progressive though. Thatâs why heâs brought on Larry Summers one of the most repulsive right wing snakes of all time who is responsible for much of the evil perpetrated thus far in the 21st century.
There are two main objections to Summers: his personality and his politics. He has a well-documented history of being an overbearing boss, a know-it-all with a habit of publicly humiliating his underlings and colleagues. Christina Romer, who served as chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration, complained that Summers treated her like âa piece of meat.â
Summersâs stormy tenure as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006 was cut short by a faculty revolt, motivated by his browbeating of African American professors such as Cornel West, his claim that women werenât doing well in the sciences because of innate cognitive inferiority in their math skills, and his support of a protĂ©gĂ© who had run roughshod over conflict-of-interest regulations while running an economic reform program in Russia. (In recent years, a fresh controversy has emerged from Summersâs tenure as Harvard president involving donations from the notorious child molester Jeffrey Epstein).
As appalling as Summers might be on a personal level, his politics are even worseâŠ
As Michael Hirsh noted in National Journal in 2013:
As a government official, [Summers] helped author a series of ultimately disastrous or wrongheaded policies, from his big deregulatory moves as a Clinton administration apparatchik to his too-tepid response to the Great Recession as Obamaâs chief economic adviser. Summers pushed a stimulus that was too meek, and, along with his chief ally, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, he helped to ensure that millions of desperate mortgage-holders would stay underwater by failing to support a âcramdownâ that would have allowed federal bankruptcy judges to have banks reduce mortgage balances, cut interest rates, and lengthen the terms of loans.
According to Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect , Hirch paid a price for documenting Summersâs history. Kuttner claims that âafter Summers personally complained to David Bradley, then the publisher of Atlantic Media, which owned National Journal , Hirsh was advised to seek other workâhe ended up moving to Politico and then to Foreign Policy , though no errors were ever found in the Summers piece and no correction was ever issued.â
And chaser
Underlying all of Summersâs actions is a firm belief in the fundamental rightness of the existing economic order and the enormous inequality it produces. During the early days of the Obama administration, Summers told a reporter, âOne of the reasons that inequality has probably gone up in our society is that people are being treated closer to the way that theyâre supposed to be treated.â
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Except that is a make believe revisionist history.
And Iâll say it again, for the millionth time, you have a two party system. Two choices. Not more. Two. You pick among the two. Just two. Not three. Not four. Two.
Vote for Creepy Joe, vote for Trump and donât vote (or vote for the other Biden) seem like three choices. Câmon man.
And only one of the two has a formal nominee for President, so weâre not actually locked in to voting for a rapist. Crazy!