Columnist DoyleMcManus writes: 'The problem isn’t that he’s old; it’s that he sometimes sounds outdated and old-fashioned, a throwback to another era.'
Lucy Flores, left, introduces Vice President Joe Biden at a get-out-the-vote rally Nov. 1, 2014, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The former vice president has been accused by two women of touching them inappropriately at public events: a former state legislator who said he kissed the back of her head in 2014 and a former congressional aide who said he rubbed noses with her in 2009.
“To say, ‘I’m sorry you were offended’ is not an apology,” Pelosi said. “He has to understand — in the world that we’re in now — that people’s space is important to them.”But Biden’s recurring “creepy uncle” narrative is only part of a larger problem he will face if he enters the already crowded race, as he is still expected to do.
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