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The latest Joe Biden catastrophe started when Biden was swearing in our new Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter. The new secretary had invited his wife Stephanie and their kids to the swearing in, and Stephanie was standing beside the podium with Biden. Biden couldn’t help himself. He put his hands on Stephanie’s shoulders and I think I detect some rubbing happening. Then he leaned in really close and whispered something to her while her husband was speaking. The whole video should be watched as an example of Workplace Sexual Harrassment (and I’m saying that as someone who ordinarily likes Uncle Joe).

Biden has apparently known Ashton Carter and his wife for years. That’s not an excuse, but it’s possible he’s simply friendly with Carters and the whole thing has been misinterpreted. And while Stephanie Carter hasn’t said anything about this and perhaps she wasn’t even that uncomfortable with it, it does seem like yet another example of the Veep getting too friendly/handsy/inappropriate with the ladies. The only thing I’ll say in Biden’s defense is that he’s always a pretty handsy guy and he seems to enjoy the baby-kissing and voter-hugging part of political life, and he is legitimately that way with men, women and children equally. But yeah, he needs to stop.

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