I want Joe Biden to address Tara Ries’s allegation publicly, to see if she is willing to meet with him, with or without witnesses as she decides appropriate, to talk about what happened. I want to see that if this happened as she describes it, it was horrible and he needs 1/
To take responsibility and make amends as well as he reasonably can. It would be an incredible thing for one man, any man, to be willing to allow for the idea that perhaps what he thought he experienced was not what SHE experienced and that the answer to the question of 2/I
How to handle the disjointed perspectives is never ever to ignore them or wish them away. It matters not that it was a long time ago. At least to her. A full throated apology would be “a small step for one man, a giant leap for humanity” 4/
And then he should continue to run for President. We are down to two choices. One is a man whose left behind an epically long trail of accusers in his wake, who has provably lied more times that it is possible to count, has demonstrated his incompetence on multiple occasions 4/
Most notably in ignoring months of warnings about the virus, failing to get the cdc to act effectively to get tests made and distributed etc etc etc. A man who has made a habit of attacking women publicly in the most outrageous ways, supported policies that actively harm 5/
Women every day and I’m not just talking about access to abortion, and who seems to be deteriorating before my very eyes. The other, on the very much other hand, has a well known history of violating Womens’ personal space and saying inappropriate things, has one allegation 6/
Against him, seems to have a capacity to learn and change and grow, a list of accomplishments in defense of women’s interests as long as both your arms. He does not surround himself with snake oil salesmen, dime store preachers and con men, he does not have a history of 7/
bankrupting multiple businesses or running a scam university or avoiding the draft in the most contemptuous pusillanimous way possible. I know you think you have some kind of gotcha moment going here. But defending Biden as the nominee is not hypocrisy. 8/
It is the only rationale thing to do. Not in SPITE of his history but because of it. He has behaved honorably in the senate, and imptovrd innumerable lives by fighting for the Violence Against Women Act. There is ZERO equivalency between Joe Biden and Donald Trump 9/
And if you think there is I’m willing to bet you havenst spent a lot of time think about women’s rights. 10/
Bottom line: Joe, I’m gonna vote for you, but please do the decent honorable thing by publicly addressing these allegations. END
