As Joe Biden gets closer to announcing his run for President, ‘skeletons’ are coming out of the closet. Last week former Nevada state Assemblywoman Lucy Flores claimed that Biden ‘grabbed my shoulders and kissed her head.’ People who know the former V.P. insist he just a friendly, affectionate guy.
While it’s absolutely true that men need to respect women’s boundaries, in this #metoo era some of Biden’s Grandfatherly gestures may have been misinterpreted.
Take Stephanie Carter, one of the women Biden had been accused of touching ‘inappropriately.’
Denying the former vice president did anything wrong, she said that Biden was just ‘offering his support,’ as she was ‘uncharacteristically nervous’ during her husband’s swearing-in ceremony. (That’s her husband, the U.S. Secretary of Defense speaking at the podium.)
Carter addressed the drummed-up controversy, writing: ‘But a still shot taken from a video – misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends – sent out in a snarky tweet – came to be the lasting image of that day.’
