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JI7

(89,289 posts)
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 05:02 AM Jan 2019

Joe Biden's Asshole Brother whose family voted for Trump attacks Hillary Clinton

i wouldn't have cared if not for the comments justifying their support for Trump and attacking Hillary for calling trump supporters deplorable. i guess they were just fine with the attacks on women and minorities.

another thing Biden will have to deal with if he runs is questions about the Russian attack on the election and whether he should have done more.



<Vice President Joe Biden’s younger brother unloaded Monday on Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign — saying his sibling would have won Pennsylvania, would have campaigned aggressively in Michigan and would not have insulted voters as “deplorables.”

“We never would have lost Pennsylvania, and all my relatives — the Finnegan family [his mom’s family] — who voted for Donald Trump because they felt slighted by Hillary and her campaign,” Frank Biden, 65, told Florida’s Palm Beach Post.

Joe Biden, 76, is a native of Scranton.

“We never would have not gone to Michigan as the [Clinton] campaign decided not to do because they felt entitled to the votes of those people. Assumptive politics is losing politics. You have to work for every single vote and people have to know individually, collectively and severally that you care about them, that they’re important.”

He also described as “idiotic” Clinton’s use of the term “deplorables” to describe Trump voters.

“The idea of declaring a whole swath of people ‘deplorables’ is just the most idiotic political calculation, number one, and two, the most — in the Catholic Church, they would call that the sin of pride. Who in God’s name am I to say that you have a fundamentally wrong moral position? Talk about lacking humility,” the younger Biden said.>

https://nypost.com/2019/01/07/joe-bidens-brother-rips-hillary-clinton-on-bungled-the-2016-election/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

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Joe Biden's Asshole Brother whose family voted for Trump attacks Hillary Clinton (Original Post) JI7 Jan 2019 OP
I had seen Joe Biden has a brother Cha Jan 2019 #1
Yeah, Joe better tell his brother to put a lid on it. That's exactly what we don't need, pnwmom Jan 2019 #2
"We never would have not gone to Michigan..." rpannier Jan 2019 #3
I too have an embarrassing right wing brother. SunSeeker Jan 2019 #4
The pro-Russia Trump apologists getting nervous. delisen Jan 2019 #5
I don't speak to my trump voter family members LittleGirl Jan 2019 #6
She never said all tRump voters were "deplorables" njhoneybadger Jan 2019 #7
Sorry, but... Mike Nelson Jan 2019 #8
DUer's should like this part.. progressoid Jan 2019 #9
Wow Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2019 #10

Cha

(298,049 posts)
1. I had seen Joe Biden has a brother
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 05:16 AM
Jan 2019

who attacked Hillary but I didn't know they were trump voters. They should be ashamed.

Poor things

pnwmom

(109,025 posts)
2. Yeah, Joe better tell his brother to put a lid on it. That's exactly what we don't need,
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 05:25 AM
Jan 2019

no matter who is the nominee.

rpannier

(24,350 posts)
3. "We never would have not gone to Michigan..."
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 05:46 AM
Jan 2019

We?
I missed the part of what office Frank was running for?

SunSeeker

(51,801 posts)
4. I too have an embarrassing right wing brother.
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 05:53 AM
Jan 2019

Fortunately, he didn't breed, since he hates kids. He's as dumb as a box of rocks too. He's racist, sexist and homophobic---the trifecta.

I feel for Biden on this.

Jimmy Carter had an embarrassing brother too, as did Bill Clinton.

Mike Nelson

(9,990 posts)
8. Sorry, but...
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 07:39 AM
Jan 2019

… bigots are deplorable. Hillary decided to "backtrack" from that assertion. I thought, at the time, she should have "doubled down" - the thing that was wrong, possibly, was the number of Deplorables, or the percentage she gave. She might have got some Trump-level saturated attention by saying, "You're damn right, bigots are deplorable!"

… also, this Biden bro sounds like he would have voted for Trump even if Hillary went to the Moon and walked on water... who does he think he's fooling?

progressoid

(50,020 posts)
9. DUer's should like this part..
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 03:19 PM
Jan 2019
Frank Biden also rapped Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is considering, making another presidential run, as “not a member of the Democratic Party” and an “avowed socialist.”
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