Cup of Joe
Former Vice President Joe Biden may be as self-unaware as his Democratic presidential opponents say he is given his answer to a question after a walk-through for last week’s candidate debate.
Asked what he would do if his debate opponents went on the offensive against him, he said, “Hug ’em.” Now, Biden, a natural hugger and a close talker, might have simply given his first reaction to the question. But if he didn’t, and he was providing a sarcastic answer given his reputation, well that might just be a little bit creepy.
Earlier this year, as the career politician was determining whether he would make a presidential run, several women stepped forward to say their previous experiences with him left them feeling uncomfortable. Among them, Lucy Flores, a Democratic Nevada assemblywoman, accused him of sniffing her hair and kissing the back of her head without her consent while campaigning for her in 2014.
Biden, realizing he needed to do something to stop the talk, released a two-minute video apologizing in a roundabout way for his failure to understand “social norms are changing” in early April.