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How I came to love Joe Biden. It was a journey. 3-8-23 The Village [1]

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Date: 2023-03-08

This Joe is my Joe

This is the best version of Joe Biden that has ever existed

In 2019, I was not thrilled to learn that Joe Biden was running for president.

I was neither a fan, nor a foe. I was meh.

To me, he was your average Joe. Not stellar, not hideous.

I support & value Biden’s work on the Violence Against Women Act.

Not so much on the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which Biden himself sees as a mistake now.

Biden ran six Supreme Court confirmation hearings in the Senate.

He kept RWNJ Robert Bork off of SCOTUS.

He got snowed under by Clarence Thomas & the phrase “high-tech lynching”.

I believed Anita Hill then, and even more so now.

Because the other women with similar claims against Thomas were not allowed to testify,

it was made to look like “he said”, “she said”, when the situation was really “he said”,

“she said”, “she said”, “she said”, “she said”, “she said”, “she said”, and “she said”.

Biden has called himself a "gaffe machine".

Sigh. Not great, no Obama elegance, no Clinton energy, but not a “firehose of falsehoods” either.

No, Joe was not in my top 10.

In 2019 or early 2020.

I am an older, liberal, educated, white woman who certainly knows many other older, liberal, educated, white women*.

I am not the base of the Democratic party. Well, crapski. That’s a bitter pill.

If most white women voters had voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, then DJT would have lost.

They did not. And that's a fact, Jack.

The absolutely, positively, most reliable voter base of the Democratic party are black women.

So when I started hearing the phrase “Vote like a black woman”, I listened.

Luckily for me, the company I worked for in 2019-20 had a workforce comprised of 30% black women and men.

I’d worked there long enough to have decent work friendships. Many co-workers knew my values and I knew theirs. Party affiliations are public info in NC. During the 2020 Democratic primary season, I began to float various names at lunch or break times with those I trusted and whose opinion I valued. I really wanted a women candidate and admired many [not all] of the Democratic women running.

This was when I heard “Uncle Joe” for the first time said with both respect and a smile.

Tell me more, I said. Then I shut up, listened, and learned about Joe Biden.

The SC primary was just ahead of the NC primary on Super Tuesday that year.

I watched and listened to our closest Southern neighbors, South Carolina Dems.

God bless James Clyburn- he knows his state, his voters, his country, and Joe Biden.

As soon as he endorsed Biden, I knew how SC would vote, and that I would follow.

Hallelujah that SC is in the beginning of the Democratic primary season moving forward.

This Joe is the best version of Biden I have ever seen

He is not sidetracked by RWNJ BS from Fox et al. Younger Joe would have been.

He is solid with:

Vaccines

Unions

Infrastructure

Manufacturing

Education

Social Security and Medicare

Diplomacy

Climate Change

This man learns.

Biden learned to focus on US courts, courts, and courts—

As of March 7, 2023, the United States Senate has confirmed 114 Article III judges nominated by Biden: one Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 30 judges for the United States courts of appeals and 83 judges for the United States district courts. There are 37 nominations awaiting Senate action: 7 for the courts of appeals, and 30 for the district courts. en.wikipedia.org/...

Biden & Harris worked to strengthen Women’s Rights and Choice after Dobbs—

Biden, meeting with governors, says U.S. will protect women seeking abortions across state lines President Joe Biden said Friday that the federal government will protect women seeking the abortion pill in states where it’s been banned as well as women who need to cross state lines to get the procedure. “As I said last week: This is not over,” Biden said at a meeting with Democratic governors to discuss abortion access, one week after the Supreme Court reversed the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established a constitutional right to an abortion. “Last week, I announced two specific actions,” he said. “First, that if extremist governors try to block a woman from traveling from her state that prohibits her from seeking medical help she needs to a state that provides that care, the federal government will act to protect her bedrock rights through the attorney general’s office.” www.cnbc.com/...

This did not happen by accident—

Twenty governors are forming a new coalition to support abortion rights Governors supporting abortion rights are forming a new coalition aimed at expanding and protecting access to the procedure, according to details shared with The Health 202. The Reproductive Freedom Alliance will create a more formal structure for governors to regularly collaborate on work to shore up abortion rights, such as administrative actions, budgetary moves and bills moving through state legislatures. It’s also aimed at allowing for a more coordinated response to major decisions with a nationwide impact, such as the lawsuit looming in Texas that could revoke the decades-old government approval of a key abortion drug. Twenty governors are joining the new alliance, which was initiated by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and bills itself as nonpartisan, though only Democratic governors have joined as of this morning. “Each state has a somewhat different political makeup,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D), who pledged to veto any abortion restrictions the state’s Republican-controlled legislature sends to his desk, said in an interview. “But at the same time, forming this alliance can help us use all of our resources to fight for women’s reproductive freedom from coast to coast.” www.nationalpartnership.org/...

Biden strengthened NATO in defense of Ukraine—

"Kyiv stands proud, it stands tall and, most importantly, stands free." The president said Ukraine has been tested by the Russian invasion, but it isn't the only nation being tested. "The whole world faced a test for the ages," he said. "Europe was being tested. America was being tested, NATO is being tested, all democracies are being tested." The test entailed how these world leaders would respond to Russia's aggression. Would they be united or fragmented? Would they be strong or weak? "One year later, we know the answer: We did respond. We would be strong. We would be united. And the world would not look the other way," Biden said... "It's simple," he continued. "If Russia stopped invading Ukraine, it would end the war. If Ukraine stopped defending itself against Russia, it would be the end of Ukraine. That's why together, we're making sure Ukraine could defend itself." www.defense.gov/...

This man listens.

Biden listened and made changes on student debt and is trying to address costs on college tuition for 4 year & 2 yr programs. Whether the RWNJs on Robert’s court will tear it down is unknown. But if they do, Biden will seek another remedy.

He listened on catching high income tax cheats and making their tax rates more proportional to their higher incomes.

He’s acted on baby formula shortages, gas prices, and a hundred things presidents don’t generally control.

He continues to work for bipartisan support where he can, but will go solo with Dems as needed.

He’s not perfect. But this Joe Biden is now my Joe Biden.

People age differently

There are 12 yrs olds in college. I wasn’t one of them, but they exist.

Biden was one of the youngest people to become a U.S. Senator, because he was only two months older than the minimum age, 30, required to be one. (While he was 29 during the election, he turned 30 before he became a senator.)

In 2024, he will be the oldest candidate running as president. That’s okay, because folks age differently, and this man is on top of his game, physically and mentally.

As GOP Reps learned to their dismay at the SOTU debate speech.

What if something happened after 2024?

We have a law of succession in the Executive Branch.

That is what many folks fear most, I think.

Not me.

Biden/Harris 2024

Bring it on, baby

* I have a weird relationship with being white. Clearly, if you look at me across the room today, I am a Whitey Kowhiteski. But if, in 1920, Warren G. Harding met my grandparents (Catholics who spoke with heavy Polish accents all of their lives), then we were not quite white enough. Nazis thought Eastern Europeans were not quite white enough. In this country, Catholics, Eastern Europeans, and the Irish were not white enough until the GOP ran out of the necessary number of previously acceptable white voters, but that’s another diary.

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