Lil' Barry Soetoro doesn't have the stones to do it, so how about ol' Uncle Gropey Joe Biden, eh?
Quote by Joe Biden to the Philadelphia Enquirer on October 12, 1975, referring to the racist, then-Alabama governor ~ "I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace - someone who's not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn't pander, but would say what the American people know in their gut is right."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/joe-biden-once-said-democrats-needed-a-liberal-george-wallace
Biden's 1975 comments came on the heels of a legislative victory in the Senate, when he sponsored an amendment to prevent the federal government enforcing busing policies to desegregate school districts. Biden's amendment appalled civil rights activists who claimed it set back desegregation efforts and struck down parts of the Civil Rights Act.
During 1987 fundraising trips across the South for his unsuccessful 1988 presidential bid, Joe Biden sought to appeal to white voters, telling audiences that he had received an award from Wallace in 1973 and that the segregationist had lauded him as "one of the outstanding young politicians of America."
During a campaign trip to Alabama in 1987, he boasted about an award he supposedly received from Wallace in 1973 and claimed his state of Delaware supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. Delaware, a border state, fought on the Union side of the war.
And then, of course, who could forget Uncle Gropey's comments about Barry Soetoro, himself ...
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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