For decades Joe Biden has been pushing the image that he is a ‘“lunch-pail” Democrat – blue-shirted, rolled up sleeves, ready to go to work for the little guy. Biden loves the “everybody’s uncle-Joe” moniker.
And corporate media has been only too happy to be an aide in the construction and maintenance of that facade. After all, they know, as well as do their bretheren, that Biden is, has and always will be a champion of the corporate political establishment.
So, before Democrat, Independent and on-the-fence working-class voters rush to annoint Biden, his history at the very least needs review.
I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body. Senator Joe Biden, 1974.
I do not buy the concept, popular in the ’60s, which said, ‘We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race.’ I don’t buy that. Senator Joe Biden, 1975.
A recent poll conducted by The Des Moines Register and CNN, Joe Biden was the top choice for 27 percent of respondents, leading all candidates, even though he hasn’t yet declared he’s a candidate. Bernie Sanders, who has begun his campaign, was second at 25 percent.
