# Will the child sexual harassment charges against VP Biden be revived?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-child-sexual-harassment-charges-against-vp-biden-be-revived/802539>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 23, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-child-sexual-harassment-charges-against-vp-biden-be-revived/802539 "2017-11-23T17:47:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-child-sexual-harassment-charges-against-vp-biden-be-revived/802539/21 "2017-11-24T14:39:38Z")

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Garbage thread? Yes. But I had been expecting it pretty much as soon as I had read [this](https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/us-poll-democratic-voters-prefer/2017/11/20/id/827229/).

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> … Forty-one percent of likely Democratic voters said that former Vice President Joe Biden would make the best candidate against President Donald Trump if he runs for re-election in 2020, more than twice as much as the next preferred candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders at 20 percent, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey released on Monday. …

#metoo is assuredly going to go beyond empowering those who have been afraid to speak up to being hijacked to knock down any current potential frontrunners with baseless crap. This one is pretty amatuerish and laughable, but there will be dirty tricks ones that are better done and debunking them will be attacked as “fake news” and hypocritical “attacking the victim.”

Because guess what? Most Americans are not so great at evaluating sources.

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**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-child-sexual-harassment-charges-against-vp-biden-be-revived/802539/22 "2017-11-24T18:51:56Z")

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> [@Mangosteen](#):
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> If these were your children, would you consider Biden’s behavior with them “normal”? Don’t talk about this guy’s feelings, talk about YOUR feelings when you see how Biden treats this kids. You expect these children to go to the press or the police and press charges?
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> “…actual allegation of inappropriate behavior…”??? Biden’s actions on the video are “appropriate” in your opinion?

If these were my children, and someone inappropriately touched them, then no threat of retribution would be enough to silence me. None. Period.

So, that actually goes against your argument instead of for it, I guess? If these parents actually thought something was amiss, they would say something - unless you just think they are all garbage parents?

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-child-sexual-harassment-charges-against-vp-biden-be-revived/802539/23 "2017-11-24T19:34:49Z")

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> [@Mangosteen](#):
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> If these were your children, would you consider Biden’s behavior with them “normal”?

I mean, he’s touching them on the head and such. If they were my kids, I’d probably consider the behavior sort of inappropriate, but I wouldn’t consider it sexual or anything. Just overly familiar, maybe? Which is something you see a lot with kids and older adults.

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