JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JOE BIDEN AND TARA READE – READE IS CREDIBLE AND HAS OFFERED A FAIR-MINDED WAY TO END A SERIOUS CONFLICT OF CLAIMS – BIDEN IGNORES HER OFFER WHILE TALKING MEANINGLESSLY ABOUT HER BEING LISTENED TO – I FEAR AN ELECTION CATASTROPHE – THE WORLD CANNOT TAKE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF TRUMP’S VICIOUS LUNACY – BIDEN, ALREADY A WEAK CANDIDATE, MAY WELL HAND TRUMP THE ELECTION WITH THIS SCANDAL – IF THERE IS ANYTHING TRUMP KNOWS HOW TO EXPLOIT, IT’S DIRT – BIDEN SHOULD TAKE A POLYGRAPH ALONG WITH READE OR QUIT THE RACE

John Chuckman


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN HIDE OUT NOW


Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said this week that those who believe the accusation of sexual assault against him by former aide Tara Reade “probably shouldn’t vote for me.”

http://www.hideoutnow.com/2020/05/biden-tells-large-group-of-people-they.html


That's quite a set of statements from Biden.

“She [Tara Reade] should be listened to.”

“But I'm telling you this never happened.”

“Truth is on our side.”

I find Tara Reade quite credible, and she has the support of someone she had spoken to about the matter.

She has made a fair offer which would put this all behind. She will take a polygraph test if Joe Biden also does.

That appears to be part of her words Biden does not want to listen to, nor do the powers-that-be in the Democratic Party.

She also gains credibility through comparison with Biden’s well-known, long-term sleazy behavior around women. From pawing their necks and shoulders to pushing his face into their hair, sometimes startling them, and we have the recent revelation that he always swam in the nude in front of female Secret Service agents who did not want to be assigned to his protection.

I see the election as potentially a national catastrophe.

Trump is a dangerous incompetent. He literally generates crises. He made a crisis out of mishandling a disease. He has manufactured a crisis with China. He has given the world a whole set of terrible situations – Iran, Venezuela, Israel/Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Bolivia, and more.

There is a very good chance that if Biden runs for the Democrats, Trump will win. That would be catastrophic for the world, not just the United States.

Biden is not a strong candidate in the first place, a lifetime party hack with no distinguished achievements and now displaying fading cognitive abilities.

But this matter of Tara Reade makes him extremely vulnerable – and remember what a ruthless opportunist Trump is, ready to exploit any bit of dirt – and Biden seems not prepared to do what is required to make it go away, that is, accept Ms. Reade’s offer of polygraph tests.

He should either take the test or decline to run.