Opinion: Joe Biden doesn’t get it
AP Photo/Susan Walsh By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 1 at 3:50 PM C’mon, Joe. You’re so close to getting this right — you just need to take another step or two. In some of the photos, Joe Biden is behind the women, his hands on their shoulders, as he whispers in their ears. He embraces Hillary Clinton, his hands around her torso. He kisses a young girl’s head, his fingers framing her face, as she looks blankly toward the camera.
The politician calling Biden out is Lucy Flores, who describes what happened backstage at an event he was doing for her when she was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Nevada. As she was waiting to go on, she says, Biden came up behind her and put his hands on her shoulders. “I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. . . . He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head.
Biden is circling around the right response here, but he can’t quite make it all the way. First, he wants to assure us that he’s not some kind of serial abuser like the late senator Strom Thurmond . Every woman in Washington knew that if you found yourself in an elevator or hallway with Thurmond, his hands would inevitably find their way to your butt or your breasts; I personally know half a dozen women who were groped by him. Biden is indeed nothing like that.
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