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I'm surprised that this wasn't covered more widely in the media. I guess that the Mueller report grabbed the headlines.

but there is Mueller, and the trump distractions.

If you’re in the media now with a 24 hour a day news cycle living in 1991 generally isn’t helpful.

Why I would support him enthusiastically if he somehow manages to defeat Bernie.


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

Please?

...because of his admitted membership in that club he decries here, including his admitted offense against Anita Hill.

The 'regrets' also look self-serving to his looming candidacy. They are a campaign eve epiphany, at best.

He actually needs to apologize for not letting the other witnesses testify in support of the allegations against Thomas.

“He said he apologized, but he hasn’t apologized to me,”

Sexist hearings in 1991, mea culpa in 2019.

It is what it is.

See, Bernie voted for the Violence Against Women Act and the Assault Weapons Ban.

Biden, on the other hand, wrote a law to throw black people into prison.

This is DU ... jokes have to be explained to some humorless people like me.

did something wrong is needed to get this behind him and allow him to speak of the good things he did relative to women's issues.

He was the Chair of the committee. He had the power to unilaterally call for more hearings -- and there were a small number of Democrats calling on him doing just that. Here is Kerry's 1991 Senate floor statement - Kerry was not on Judiciary Committee. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4751436/senator-kerry-1991 (I have the TV on and just listened to Biden's statement. That statement speaking of how unfair the hearing was and wishing he could have done something would make sense for Kerry and others like Senator Boxer, then in the House to make condemning what she went through. Both tried to demand better -- and obviously did succeed. The differences are Biden had the power and didn't really try.

A real mea culpa would be a deep, honest look at what he did and what he did not do - sins of commission and sins of omission - if you want. Here, he argues he voted against Thomas and a statement that the hearing should have been fairer to Hill. What is lacking is taking responsibility for his large role in that hearing.

For primary voters.

and those who know their history.

I think that’s mostly wishful thinking from people who can’t stand Biden.

.not when he's running against an actual perpetrator.

what and how women feel about the challenges and inequities they face. As a womaon, I really love a man who honors the sacrifices and support their wives give them. Jill was very active along with Michelle in working with and working for military wives and families. And, I am certain that Jill has influenced his better angels.

The interesting thing here is why he can't REALLY take responsibility. It is embarrassing when the chair of the committee says he wishes there was something he could have done.

Note - this does not mean that I am 100% ruling him out as my primary choice, though in all honesty it was one reason I ruled him out in 2008. A then more current reason was that I was unimpressed with how he ran the SFRC. I actually thought Lugar did a better job (other than the terrible Bolton hearings) - though obviously I was happy the Democrats won the Senate back in 2006. It was very annoying that he cut everyone else off as their time expired and then HE stated his view of that exchange. (At the time, it looked like he wanted his sound clips for political purposes, though it might be he is simply gregarious. )

He was CHAIR of the Judiciary Committee...and he "couldn't come up with a way to give her the kind of hearing she deserved."

I call BS.

off from testifying because he had promised Republicans he would conclude the hearing by x date. So he basically could have made that happen and allowed the testimony anyway. We will never know if it would have made a difference and kept Thomas off the court.

He allowed Thomas to testify before and after Hill, and apparently he cared more about collegiality than the truth.

Final vote was 52-48. More witnesses could have made the difference.

Defense is that it was long ago and he (like all of us, and especially many older men) have evolved. It's important not to look at the past through today's lens. I think many would be empathetic to that approach?

instead of saying, "I wish there was something I could have done"...as if he had no agency, no power, was a passive participant. For me that is not good enough. For others it may be. Enough others? We won't know until the votes are in.

I'm done with looking forward and not back.

To everyone, especially Anita Hill.

It doesn't make it ok, I know, but the way GOP treated Kavenaugh accusers decades later is despicable. Obviously they haven't evolved one iota. And trump as their protector even worse.

Almost 30 years later and the same crap is still going on. As Democrats, women and just plain ol' people of conscience we need to get in people's faces about it.