Joe Biden

I saw Joe Biden in the flesh at the 2007 Democratic Convention in San Diego when he was running for President. He gave an impressive speech.

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 47th vice president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator for Delaware from 1973 to 2009. Biden is the Democratic presidential nominee for the 2020 election, running against the incumbent, Donald Trump. --Wikipedia

As of this writing in September 2020, Joe holds a slim margin in the polls against Trump. I hope he wins.

Here are some items about Joe from various reliable news sources:

In the 1970s, Biden opposed court-ordered school busing as a method of desegregating public schools. He has said that he favored other methods of desegregation, such as in housing, and that he supported voluntary busing.
As Judiciary Committee chairman, Biden presided over Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court confirmation, at which Anita Hill testified that Thomas had sexually harassed her. It was Biden’s decision not to call as witnesses several women who had provided depositions corroborating Hill’s testimony. Thomas was confirmed by the Senate in a 52-48 vote.
While on a tour of the Balkans in 1993, Biden met with Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. Biden says he called Milosevic a “damned war criminal” to his face, though others present at the meeting recall it was phrased more diplomatically.
He wrote the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which hardened federal prison sentences and has been criticized by lawmakers today for disproportionately incarcerating black and brown Americans.
He co-sponsored the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 with Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. The law, which was incorporated into the larger crime bill, provided $1.6 billion to investigate and prosecute violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed victims to sue their attackers in civil court even if prosecutors didn’t proceed criminally.
He voted for the Iraq War in 2002, and was present at the White House when then-President George W. Bush signed the resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq. Biden has since called the vote a “mistake.”
A close friend of John McCain dating back to McCain’s time as the Navy’s liaison to the U.S. Senate, Biden and his wife Jill were with McCain at a Navy reception in Hawaii in 1979, where he first saw his future wife, Cindy. They urged him to go over and talk to her. McCain requested Biden deliver a eulogy at his funeral in 2018.
Biden neither smokes nor drinks alcohol, referring to those behaviors as “a crutch.” Instead, Biden said in a 1970 interview, “I use football as a crutch, and motorcycle jumping and skiing … but those are crutches over which I have some control.”
In early 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea, which was part of Ukraine, Vice President Biden became the Obama administration’s “highest ranking emissary” to Eastern European nations, such as Ukraine, that were alarmed at Russian aggression.
He’s a gearhead and auto enthusiast who receives notifications from Car and Driver magazine on his iPhone.

Vice Presidential debate, 2012.

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