Biden Speech to Clarence Thomas
One can learn a great deal about Joe Biden from this speech--as he makes a great show of his "impartiality" while reassuring Clarence Thomas of his support (Strom Thurmond, Biden's old segregationist Senate mentor sitting at his right, adds his own reassurance at the end of the clip).
While it is never easy to follow Biden's train of thought, he appears to imply that the standard for evaluating the merit of Anita Hill's testimony is the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of criminal law. Did he not know the correct standard? Or would the correct standard not yield the result he desired?
And where is the
"lifelong stutterer" we've heard so much about? I see no evidence of
anything like that in this extended speech. But the most important
question as far as I'm concerned is this: how does one get off this ship
of fools?
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