But Biden is not the one who looks bad here. The press is.
For the newsrooms that are just now going through their archives and coming back with materials suggesting Biden has a problematic history of racially insensitive statements and positions: Where were these reports when it was first rumored that the Obama 2008 campaign was vetting Biden to join the ticket as vice president? Where were these reports when Biden served for eight years as vice president to America’s first black president?
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Are newsrooms really going to suggest there was no little value to Biden’s past positions on racially sensitive topics when he served in the Obama administration? The answer, it seems, is yes.
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