Post by Optimus on Feb 28, 2020 23:29:17 GMT -5
I'm tellin' ya, it's dementia:
www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/biden-south-carolina-speeches-118283
www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/biden-south-carolina-speeches-118283
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — In a Democratic primary for president, questions about women’s empowerment and reproductive rights are standard fare.
Yet when Joe Biden was asked about the issue at a Thursday night town hall, Biden’s response was anything but typical. He rambled for 19 minutes, and wound up discussing how unfair it is for women’s outfits to be discussed in rape cases — a topic that wasn’t implied in the question.
“I’m going to make a controversial statement,” Biden acknowledged, before diving in. “If someone in this room got up, took off all her clothes and walked out the door, no man has a right to touch her. Zero.”
The crowd politely applauded.
The former vice president kept going: “She can be arrested for indecent exposure!”
No applause followed. Some in the crowd wore puzzled expressions when Biden then mentioned how police or even parents of rape victims face questions about their clothing.
“Did you have underwear on? Were you wearing a bra? How short was your skirt? What did you say?” Biden said in a mock colloquy of a rape victim being questioned. He also mentioned a case of a woman who refused to date a man, resulting in an attack from “two goons [who] slashed her face with razors.”
This is Joe Biden, unplugged on the campaign trail: edgy, meandering, graphic, oddball — all attributes that are features, not bugs, of his presidential campaign.
Yet when Joe Biden was asked about the issue at a Thursday night town hall, Biden’s response was anything but typical. He rambled for 19 minutes, and wound up discussing how unfair it is for women’s outfits to be discussed in rape cases — a topic that wasn’t implied in the question.
“I’m going to make a controversial statement,” Biden acknowledged, before diving in. “If someone in this room got up, took off all her clothes and walked out the door, no man has a right to touch her. Zero.”
The crowd politely applauded.
The former vice president kept going: “She can be arrested for indecent exposure!”
No applause followed. Some in the crowd wore puzzled expressions when Biden then mentioned how police or even parents of rape victims face questions about their clothing.
“Did you have underwear on? Were you wearing a bra? How short was your skirt? What did you say?” Biden said in a mock colloquy of a rape victim being questioned. He also mentioned a case of a woman who refused to date a man, resulting in an attack from “two goons [who] slashed her face with razors.”
This is Joe Biden, unplugged on the campaign trail: edgy, meandering, graphic, oddball — all attributes that are features, not bugs, of his presidential campaign.