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mk · 1808 days ago · link · · parent · post: Amy Klobuchar will end 2020 presidential campaign and endorse Joe Biden
I don't think it is excusable behavior, and I don't consider it was just "Joe being Joe". However, I don't consider it a clear sign of perversion either. It's something in the middle. Biden was too touchy. I had old aunts and uncles that were the very same. Posing for a photo, it felt like you were a prop they were holding. Kisses from old aunts on the mouth. It's no longer tolerable, and that's a good thing. I don't take it to mean that Joe isn't a good person. I don't take the fact that Bernie told Warren that a woman can't win the presidency to mean that he isn't a good person either. These are character flaws. They do harm to others. We all have them, and we should all work to correct them. The degrees of harm really do matter.