And they may be.Osodecentx said:The highlights above from your article seem to support the assertion that Democrats are hypocritical in their condemnation of Kavanaugh and silence on BidenJinx 2 said:
You know who has talked publicly about the importance of taking women seriously? Biden. During the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, Biden stood up for Dr Christine Blasey Ford, noting: "For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you've got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she's talking about is real."
Does this presumption not apply when the guy being accused is a Democrat running for president? It would seem that way. In January, according to reporting from the Intercept, Reade asked for help from the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, which has supported accusers of high-profile people like Weinstein. Reade was reportedly told by the National Women's Law Center, the organization within which the Time's Up fund is housed, that it couldn't assist with accusations against a presidential candidate because it would jeopardize their non-profit status. The Intercept further notes that "the public relations firm that works on behalf of the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund is SKDKnickerbocker, whose managing director, Anita Dunn, is the top adviser to Biden's presidential campaign".
There are some people who will insist that drawing attention to the new allegations against Biden is playing into the Republicans' hands. That it will destroy Biden's campaign and guarantee us four more years of Trump.
But the Kavanaugh hearing was the only news in town during that cycle.
Most politicians/political leaders are more pre-occupied with figuring out how to save lives in their states, at least the good ones, and many publications are throwing most of their best reporters into Covid-19 coverage. Biden's best strategy is not to rise to the bait and he hasn't. If Bernie thinks he really did it, he will latch on with those alligator jaws of his and not let go. Stay tuned.
I know how most men on this site view Christine Blasey Ford, but none of them have ever been 15-year-old girls who find themselves at a party they thought would be fun and cool with older boys who are drunk, out of control, contemptuous and mean and looking at them and talking about them like pieces of meat; plenty of women have that memory and the memory of how they made their escape (or didn't). I found her story totally believable, moreso because she was relunctant to come forward, but equally relunctant to say nothing and have a jerk like Kavanaugh end up on the court. Don't expect any of you to agree, and we've had this conversation before.
And the point wasn't to charge Kavanaugh with assault; it was to question whether he had the moral character to sit on the Supreme Court. Men cheered his tantrum and his contemtuous verbal abuse of the female senators on the panel, all of whom were Democrats. Women registered the fact that a mean drunk who viewed women in high school and college as resources to exploit and make fun of felt sickened that Kavanaugh would make decisions affecting women's rights in a variety of areas for years to come.
If the point of this woman's accusation is to end Biden's campaign, she might succeed. But it won't happen this week. The increase in diagnosed cases and deaths from the coronavirus takes precedence. I look forward to the time when debating this issue without much greater worries--people's lives, the economy, how long of a siege we're in for--looming. We didn't know how good we had it when the worst thing happening was that we learned too many of our political leaders / supreme court justices were scumbags who assault women off-camera, did we?