We watched in the early 1970s when the leading television show was about a bigoted white man ruling over his wife and daughter and her meathead husband. Since that time as we grew up as a nation of individuals, we each through our life found it wasn’t always what we thought it would be. The image of the life we had been raised to expect from those television show of the ’60s and ’70s didn’t come with answers at the end of thirty minutes or an hour. No one was there to make our dilemma better when we struck out. We left our high schools, some of us went on to college and then entered careers. Eventually, we all ended up with what we considered to be our families. Along the way while sowing wild oats here and there, our wild years, we decided as more seasoned adults it be best to leave most of the rowdy memories in our past. That is where they belonged after all. Everyone does those types of things. Whatever it is you did, back in those days, that was just as well left there and while you and a buddy might have got a laugh out of it at the time, you had moved on from that sort of thinking. Your values had grown. You evolved to being a better person.
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Everyone has those moments in life. No one can live decades of experience and not have at least a few moments of their own which could come back on them and at least cause them to become red-faced. A high school debate between classmates where your stance on a position is different today than then. For some it may be that your reputation in your hometown is cemented at that instance when you stood your ground behind a podium and defended the principles on which you stood, at the time. Who would think that just because you are now running for city council in the community where you have settled down with your family, that anyone would dig up those comments, plus an old school debate video and start using your words against you? For god sakes it is back when you were in high school, things were different back then. Everyone thought of the subject you talked about in terms that no one considers today. It was a different time most everyone who supported the cause which you supported then understood it because there was no other information to suggest otherwise adequately. You have since changed your original stance having been given more current information, as the research on the subject disclosed solid scientific details you came to change your views on the subject. Shit! You’ve went to college, you’re a Reader’s Digest Monthly Subscriber. You evolved! Despite being asked, begged to, pleaded with by your sister (the HS opponent in debate) you refuse to go back to your old high school and admit that you were wrong during debate class because you say at that time you wasn’t. You claim, you had been correct during the debate. Because your knowledge of the information and your stance was appropriate, after all you stood on facts then available. And for those using the old debate videos against you, they are providing mis-information because you have admitted to changing your views with the advancement in studies on the subject. Besides, can they prove that is really you on that poorly edited VHS recording?.
In this writing, by referring to “subject,” it is understood that there are no direct comparisons made and it is kept vague; it is so because it is not so… not so much about the writer’s views this should be, but about those of the reader. Perhaps it was politically, socially or religious or in some way personal. What have you evolved on?
Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Nomination Hearings. 1991
The reason for this piece is to try and understand the noise about that being roared around former Vice President Joe Biden. A person who has done what we insist needs to be done. Not ideally by any means. But, he has done, what we say is the end goal. He raised the surviving children from his first marriage after his wife and a son were killed in an auto accident, and another critically injured. He wrote a bill and pushed for non-segregation busing in the 1970s, his reasoning had more to do with keeping the kids close to their homes rather than busing them in some cases forty miles away from their homes and parents. His bill never became law, and black children did get bused far away, in many cases where parents could not reach them during emergencies. He authored the crime bill in the 1990s that required harsh sentences trying to follow recommendations that it would help stop crime, it didn’t, and when he became Vice President he and President Obama changed what they could. He oversaw the Anita Hill hearing and made some significant mistakes, which at that time he did what he knew to do; it wasn’t right in the eyes of those today. It wasn’t right by the standards we measure of others today. It wasn’t right for many then, there was a culture that existed which controlled D.C. and the country at that time (in many cases it still does), regardless of what Biden would have wanted to do, he would not have been able to do it alone. And, Biden has acknowledged that and tried to make amends.
Senator Ted Kennedy
There are no words or actions that Biden can say or do which will ever be enough to put to rest the resentments being carried by others. Those who claim Biden has slighted them will never give up their right to the claim because in doing so that would mean giving up their application to being victimized. In as much as they were truly victimized, the only way they get justice is to hold on to that pain and those resentments against the Joe Biden; because they know, the real perpetrator will never be punished.
And the news media and political foes should accept that is a standard which Joe Biden will never overcome, and it is an era social violation, not criminal. Unlike the continual ethical and criminally connected era-consistent, social-raping and self admitted, grab-em where you want-em doings of Donald Trump; that is not even close in the balances of severity between Biden and Trump.
Vice President Joe Biden
If there is a presidential candidate who is of questionable ethical, criminal, chauvinistic grandeur; who looks at women as property and people in general as disposable it is sad that Biden is being targeted because he is the person who has evolved. Who, while not perfect has continued to change with the times and tried to become a better person regardless of his past decisions. He has admitted his faults, adjusted and decided to move on. If the appreciation for doing so, is the treatment which he is now receiving, what is the incentive for others to want to follow in his footsteps?
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