Former Vice President and 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden held a social distancing livestream via Twitter this week, taking questions from young people around the country. Fielding a question about LGBTQ rights, Biden slipped up and referred to a gay couple he met as “mommy and dad.”
It’s a harmless enough mistake, but doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
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The question came from Alabama Young Democrats President Josh Coleman, who asked the candidate “why you thought it was important” to voice support for marriage equality in 2012, even before then-President Barack Obama did.
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Biden answered by saying he never had to “evolve” on the issue, like so many other politicians, and that he was inspired to speak out after meeting a family with two gay dads back in 2012.
“I showed up at an event- and doing an event when I was vice president, and it was in the home of a gay couple,” he said. “And I walked in the kitchen and met them first and they had two beautiful children, a little boy and a little girl.”
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He continued: “And the way they loved their mommy and dad – two men, who were in fact really strong men and strong people – just impressed me so much.”
We’re going to give him a pass here because his intentions are clearly good, but it’s a bit worrisome to think what gaffes could be lurking in the near future as we approach what is arguably the most important election of modern history.
Watch:
Joe Biden recalls the time he met a gay couple and was very impressed pic.twitter.com/C2niBy204S
— june (@shoe0nhead) March 25, 2020
Cam
Ok, if we’re playing this game, Bernie Sanders opposed same sex marriage, saying civil unions were enough and voted against the Brady bill before “Evolving”.
And Trump is STILL appointing judges to attack LGBT people’s rights.
So now that we have all sides.
GayMafiaKingpin
What Bernie did or did not do years ago has nothing to do with a current video of Biden making a faux pas.
Kangol2
And Barack Obama supported same-sex marriage when he was an Illinois State Senator representing a district in Chicago, near the University of Chicago, with a significant gay population.
chase_boston
can someone remind Joe Biden what Love means !!!
Jared MacBride
In the upcoming election there are two realistic choices. Before you get down on Biden remember what the other choice has been like.
truthseeker
Democrats had 4 years to find the best candidate possible and this is what they delivered LOL
This is just one of many gaffes (hairy legs, loves kids jumping on his lap, says he’s running for the Senate, coughs into his hand repeatedly while discussing coronavirus, says 150 million Americans died from guns, forgets what state he’s in, confuses his sister for his wife, says poor kids are just as bright as white kids, says he was VP during the parkland shooting, coronavirus cure will make the problem worse, son refuses to pay child support claiming he’s broke, “we hold these truths… you know the thing”, we chose “truth over facts”, super Thursday, etc. )
And now after being touchy feely, he’s getting sexual assault claims against him.
Jared MacBride
The democrats have put all their chips in the pot and they’re holding at best a pair of sixes. But all the other candidates were a pair of threes at best.
Joshooeerr
Sure, Biden is. walking Dad joke. He may even be entering the foothills of senility. But when the alternative is Trump, almost any other option is better.
JessPH
Any Democrat is the best candidate against Trump. Any Democrat at his worst is much better than Trump at his best.
Kangol2
Drumpf has over TWO DOZEN sexual assault claims against him. A woman said that in the company of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Don the Con’s pal, Donny raped her when she was 13.
Along with 1000+ deaths from Covid-19 and counting, and 100,000+ sick and counting. And treasonous behavior, as Steve Bannon put it, involving Russia. And lying to Congress and the American people over and over, and innumerable forms of corruption, tax fraud, gross incompetence, etc.
Don Covid-19 Con is the worst ever. He makes the grotesquely incompetent screw-up George W. Bush look like Abe Lincoln by comparison!
truthseeker
@Kangol2
Sounds like you’re deflecting to protect Joe Biden. You can’t defend Joe Biden so you’ll deflect.
Not a great message you send to the DNC establishment when you let them tell you who the establishment status quo candidate is and gleefully walk in lockstep with them. It tells them that they can give you more establishment candidates and you’ll vote for them no matter what over someone way more qualified or more in line with your beliefs.
Everything you cited above as a reason not to vote for a candidate applies to Joe Biden (sexual assault claims, 12000+ H1N1 deaths, ties to Ukraine with admitted pay- for-play) but that won’t stop you from supporting him lol
MHaumesser
Are people this sensitive nowadays?!? Give me a damn break!
KellyRobinsonJr
Seriously, is this really a thing?
Dick Gozinia
At least he is TRYING to be on our side. Keep trashing him and you’ll enjoy another 4 years of Trump.
MrMichaelJ
Biden’s mental health is quickly going downhill. We need to talk about this now before it’s too late if it already isn’t.
inbama
Stop.
That dementia garbage is a Republican meme. So sad to see gay Bernie supporters stooping so low as to use it.
Black Pegasus
If he’s the nominee I’m staying home.
#NeverBiden
JessPH
Tell me, is four more years of Trump filling the Supreme Court, federal and circuit courts with justices and judges recommended by the far-right Federalist Society better than four years of Biden who will do no such thing?
CityguyUSA
I’ve heard worse come out of his pie hole.
JessPH
Sensitive Sally much? What gay couple gets offended when called “mommy and daddy”? No one.
trell
….and the nemesis is still an unapologetic narcissist who has publicly offended any and all vulnerable groups, including the disabled, LGBTQ, ethnic minorities, and women. Biden’s comment seems to just be a faux pas. Trump doing an impression of a reporter with palsy, or boasting about grabbing women by the p**sy is intentional and just plain nasty.
Josh447
His gaffes have all been harmless but nonetheless, gaffes they are.
Unfortunately his legacy of gaffes is paramount but he’s the best we’ve got for now so I will support him. He’s unifying, I believe that’s the key.
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He will get worse during the campaign disaster unfolding