From Ace of Spades HQ
In 1975,
Biden was an undeniable fan of George Wallace. "I think the Democratic
Party could stand a liberal George Wallace--someone who's not afraid to stand
up and offend people, someone who wouldn't pander but would say what the
American people know in their gut is right," he told the Philadelphia
Enquirer.
Biden remained a fan of
Wallace through the 1980s. In 1981, he praised Wallace's positions on various
issues and told a black witness during a Senate committee hearing that
"sometimes even George Wallace is right." Later, during his first
attempt at running for president in 1987, he bragged that in 1973 Wallace
considered him "one of the outstanding young politicians of America,"
and while campaigning in Alabama, he said, "we (Delawareans) were on the
South's side in the Civil War."
Biden also actively cozied
up to Southern segregationist Democrats for help and support for his
anti-busing legislation--which Kamala Harris used against him during the 2020
Democratic primary to suggest that he was a racist. Biden also praised former
Ku Klux Klan "Exalted Cyclops" Robert Byrd and referred to him as a
"friend," "mentor," and "guide."
Biden on
school busing.
Unless we do something about this, my children are going to
grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having
built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make
some move on this.
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