Remember Mittmentum? Those were the days…
Many Democrats have had nightmares that the Obama-Clinton tug’o'war was going to upstage Sen. Joe Biden’s debut at the DNC. Wrong. Biden’s speech capped off the day when the Democratic convention finally lived up to the hype and its protagonists replaced Tracy Flick behavior with Saved by the Bell camaraderie.
Honor defines you and loyalty redeems you, his mother taught him. That’s what you want to hear from your running mate where the relationship is what Lyndon Johnson told Hubert Humphrey, a “marriage with no chance of divorce.”
Beau Biden, the senator’s son, provided a tear jerker introduction. Joe Biden was presented as a family man on a heroic level. His first wife and one of his four children were killed in an auto accident. Two other children were hospitalized. Joe Biden committed to taking the four hour train ride home to Wilmington to be with the children.
The vice presidential nomination was Joe Biden’s just desserts. He overcame the loss of wife and daughter, a terrible stutter as a kid on the playground, and economic hardship growing up in Pennsylvania. He’d been a senator since he was 30, reelected six times, and ran for president once before in 1988.
The vice presidential nominee is telling of how the presidential nominee is to govern. Joe Biden is as tough, as he is honest, as he is experienced. He called genocide advocate and Serbian dictator Slobodan Milošević a war criminal to his face, whereas President Bush takes satisfaction is showcasing Saddam Hussein’s pistol.
Some bloggers said two senators on a ticket would be too much talk. Senators are more apt to talk than to do. An examination of Biden’s character and legislative record proves that he is one senator who can talk and do, sponsoring pivotal legislation like the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act.
Merit is something close to Biden’s heart, Obama’s too. They know what’s it’s like to earn and more importantly, how earning generates esteem and respect. Defining the American dream as a meritocracy where “if you try hard enough” you can make it, as Biden said, will resonate with Democrats, Republicans and independents.
Americans are “asking questions so ordinary and profound,” a seemingly contradictory notion that makes sense considering 80 percent of Americans think the nation is on the wrong track and and the U.S. is more than $9.6 trillion in debt. When things seem so wrong in the nation and in the Democratic Party, Joe Biden reminded us the election is about who can best change the direction of America.
“Remember when the world used to trust us?” Biden asked. “When they looked to us for leadership? With Barack Obama as our president, they’ll look to us again, they’ll trust us again, and we’ll be able to lead again.”
Tags: joe biden, senator, vice president
Senator Joe Biden proudly proclaims that he was regularly and severely beaten by his older sister as a child and as an adolescent. This is the same sister that raised his two sons after his wife and daughter were killed in an auto accident.
Biden has often claimed that the Violence against Women Act is the greatest achievement of his career. He also claims that a woman cannot be a perpetrator of domestic violence, despite the fact that hundreds of studies show that women commit acts of domestic violence as often as, or more often than men. Many studies also show that lesbian women physically attack their intimate partners at least as often as heterosexual men.
As a result of Biden’s Violence against Women Act, the federal government pays states to create laws effectively requiring that innocent men be removed from their homes and families without even an allegation of violence, with no legitimate standards of evidence, when a woman makes a claim that she is afraid.
Elaine Epstein, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association (1999), has said “the facts have become irrelevant… restraining orders are granted to virtually all who apply. Regarding divorce cases, she states “allegations of abuse are now used for tactical advantage”. According to Epstein, who is also a former president of the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association, restraining orders are doled out “like candy” and “in virtually all cases, no notice, meaningful hearing, or impartial weighing of evidence is to be had.”
State restraining order laws are starting to fall because they’re unconstitutional. The federal law behind them, written by Joe Biden, is likely to fall as well, not because it isn’t popular, but because it is clearly unconstitutional.
There is a rapidly growing activist community dedicated to addressing this issue. One of the focal points of this community is the Glenn Sacks blog, http://www.glennsacks.com .
Supporting Documentation
Here are some of the facts regarding Biden’s abuse at the hand of his sister. During senate hearings held on December 11, 1990, Biden testified to the abuse.
http://www.ifeminists.net/intr.....berts.html
This recent CDC study indicates that women between the ages of 18 and 28 initiate reciprocal violence against their intimate partners about as often as men. It also indicates that women initiate non-reciprocal violence against their intimate partners more than twice as often as men.
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org.....42/15/31-a
Here is a link to a bibliography of over 200 studies indicating that women are as violent as men in their intimate relationships:
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
According to the US Department of Justice, women also abuse, neglect and kill their children at significantly higher rates than men. Here’s some of the data on child homicides.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/program.....ure4_2.htm
Research clearly indicates that lesbian battery is at least as common as heterosexual battery.
http://www.glennsacks.com/dome.....ce_a_2.htm
http://www.musc.edu/vawprevent.....heet.shtml
http://lesbianlife.about.com/o.....sMyths.htm
Cathy Young reports on the Elaine Epstein quote and the broader issue at Salon.com here:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/featu.....ng_orders/
and provides in depth analysis here:
http://www.iwf.org/files/50c58.....7944f6.pdf
This report from RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting) provides much insight into the situation brought about, in large part, by Joe Biden.
http://www.mediaradar.org/docs.....ations.pdf
Senator Joe Biden proudly proclaims that he was regularly and severely beaten by his older sister as a child and as an adolescent. This is the same sister that raised his two sons after his wife and daughter were killed in an auto accident.
Biden has often claimed that the Violence against Women Act is the greatest achievement of his career. He also claims that a woman cannot be a perpetrator of domestic violence, despite the fact that hundreds of studies show that women commit acts of domestic violence as often or more often than men. Many studies also show that lesbian women physically attack their intimate partners at higher rates than heterosexual men.
As a result of Biden’s Violence against Women Act, the federal government pays states to create laws effectively requiring that innocent men be removed from their homes and families without even an allegation of violence, with no legitimate standards of evidence, when a woman makes a claim that she is afraid.
Elaine Epstein, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association (1999), has said “the facts have become irrelevant… restraining orders are granted to virtually all who apply. Regarding divorce cases, she states “allegations of abuse are now used for tactical advantage”. According to Epstein, who is also a former president of the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association, restraining orders are doled out “like candy” and “in virtually all cases, no notice, meaningful hearing, or impartial weighing of evidence is to be had.” Cathy Young reports on the Elaine Epstein quote and the broader issue at Salon.com here:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/featu.....ng_orders/
This report from RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting) provides much insight into the situation brought about, in large part, by Joe Biden.
http://www.mediaradar.org/docs.....ations.pdf
State restraining order laws are starting to fall because they’re unconstitutional. The federal law behind them, written by Joe Biden, is likely to fall as well, not because it isn’t popular, but because it is clearly unconstitutional.
There is a rapidly growing activist community dedicated to addressing this issue. One of the focal points of this community is the Glenn Sacks blog, http://www.glennsacks.com .
Dear HumanRights101: It is unfortunate when “innocent men be removed from their homes and families without even an allegation of violence,” though if that’s the case, seems like an appeal will right any wrongs.
We are better off with the legislation than without. You say it sucks that a restraining order is easy to get. At least we have an opportunity to shut out those we want shut out. Could you imagine the reverse? I wouldn’t want to.