BBC News: Reports " Joe Biden hits back at rivals in Detroit "
Lets Get Real:
The 2nd Debate was good for Biden, he fought back, he took on Harris and Booker, it can be said that Booker earned his ticket to stay in the race. Senator Booker took on Biden when it came to his support of the 1994 Crime Bill and others crime bills from the 1970s and 1980s. The former VP shot back that the Booker record as Mayor was not that great, that he had to be sued by the ACLU to reform his police department. The main fight that this blog remembered was the fight between Senator Harris and Tulsi Gabbard over the record of Harris as Attorney General of California, the Congresswoman pointed out that Harris allowed a prisoner to stay on death row when the prisoner should have been removed, that she allowed prisoners to be kept in jail when they should have been released as a form of cheap labour, also she went after pot smokers while laughing when asked if she had ever smoked pot. The attack was so detailed this blog thinks that the Biden Camp released the info to her, as it allowed Harris to be taken down a bit, while not having the fingerprints of the Biden Campaign on the issue . What was also interesting for this blog is how Biden threw Obama under the bus when it came to the Obama surge in Afghanistan in the first term, he stated that he was against that. This is not new, the then Defence Secretary Robert Gates stated that Biden as VP, undercut the Afghan policy at every stage. Thus far this blog has not seen that mentioned by other comments on the debate. One can assume that Barack Obama will not be happy that his VP threw him under the bus when it came to such an important foreign policy approach.
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