I say this because there really is no basis for his candidacy except that he wouldn't have the emailagte issue. That's the sole basis of his appeal. This is what Michael Tomasky has pointed out.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/25/hillary-vs-biden-would-get-ugly-fast.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/why-media-is-so-anti-hillary.html
Some also argue that unlike Hillary his middle class roots are clear. I don't really understand this narrative as she is middle class too-her husband was born poor. She wasn't born wealthy.
And since when have we bought into the GOP diversion of biography? Do all Latinos have to vote for Rubio because he's Latino himself regardless of his policies?
What we want is not the most personally middle class candidate but the candidate who would do most for the middle class. The man in American history who did the most was the patrician FDR.
Scott Walker shows you can be middle class and have terrible policies for the middle class.
So Joe is going to what? Go after her as dishonest-because of emails?-and that he will be better on the economy as he's more middle class than her?
Again, this is right out of Hillary hating Republican talking points. Is this how Biden is going to unite the party? I like Joe, He's a good man and has been a great Vice President and served his country very well-though we have him at least in part to thank for Clarence Thomas skating on Anita Hill.
You can say Hillary is a bad campaigner if you must-though I think you're wrong-but she did a lot better in 2008 than he did-in 1988 he also ran and was out by 1987.
And just to underscore my point that Biden is the Rush Limbaugh candidate-Republicans are loving 'Democrats squirming over Biden.'
“We’re constantly denounced as a circus, a clown show, a clown car,” said GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway, adding that competition has been good for the Republican field. But, she went on to add, “Pardon us if we’ve got the giggles over watching the Democrats, the so-called Democratic front-runner, hear [competitors’] footsteps and what was meant to be a runaway victory, what was meant to be a coronation, becomes their own … version of a clown car.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/gop-revels-in-joe-biden-buzz-121743.html#ixzz3jvGzWc80
Which is just silly. You are a clown car, Ms. Conway. And even if Biden comes in that wouldn't change what you are or did you miss Lindsay Graham threatening to kick Trump's ass yesterday as he trails Trump 30% to 4% in his own state of SC?
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/trump-makes-gop-pollster-frank-luntzs.html
But it does make my point that there's no good reason for Biden to run.
Again, I like Biden. I even can understand his frustration. Hillary very deftly maneuvered herself into the presumed favorite in 2013. When she appeared with Obama on 60 Minutes after the 2012 election the two looked like an old married couple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9uDUnywMu0
That was when the narrative started that Hillary is Obama's handpicked heir apparent. That was gold for her.
If things had unfolded differently I would happily support Biden now-though everybody loves him so much now because he's not running just yet. If he were to things would change. Back when Hillary was Secretary of State, everybody loved her-even many Republicans. Obama was the anti-Christ then.
People forget that Biden has this reputation as a 'gaffe machine' that I think is unfair Again, I never am swayed by GOP talking points and the gaffe machine thing is another Republican talking point.
But neither should Biden base a campaign on them and that could be his only conceivable road to victory.
As for the death of Biden's son it cuts both ways. If anything it could actually be the reason he won''t get in. Does this really sound like the Great White Hope that Lawrence O'Donnell and friends are making him out to be?
"The Joe Biden who has been reaching out to Democratic operatives and would-be donors for a potential 2016 bid isn’t quite the happy warrior of bygone days."
"Mourning the loss of his eldest son Beau, who succumbed to a brain tumor three months ago, and under intense pressure from the presidential hype he’s helped stoke, Biden is more subdued, grayer, and grimly on-task than usual — this while occupying political center stage for the first time since the promising open days of his doomed 1988 campaign."
"For all the breathless reporting on Biden’s every move and meeting, he is, at core, a 72-year-old man presented with an unexpected, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at one of the worst times of his life."
"Several people Biden has talked to in the past month say he starts off conversations by conceding that “some days are better than others,” mixing recollections of Beau with logistical questions about mounting a state-by-state challenge to a vulnerable yet still formidable Hillary Clinton."
“He’s just not himself,” says a longtime friend of Biden’s. “He’s sort of all over the place. He’s engaged but not in that child-like, manic way he usually is. He’s taking it all in and soaking up information, but he’s hard to read. And Joe Biden isn’t usually that hard to read.”
"To the annoyance of the Clinton campaign, Biden’s allies have strategically leaked his modest, noncommittal doings to the media, which have given otherwise ho-hum confabs with Elizabeth Warren and President Obama’s former counsel Bob Bauer bombshell treatment (Warren, according to a person with knowledge of the interaction, offered her usual warning against bringing more Wall Street executives into the White House; the Bauer sit-down was a relatively dry give-and-take on state election laws and deadlines)."
"But reports that the vice president has all but made up his mind to run are simply not true, according to a half-dozen people in his inner circle interviewed by POLITICO. “He’s not leaning one way or the other,” says one former aide who remains part of the extended Biden political family."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/joe-beau-biden-president-hype-2016-121749.html#ixzz3jvMR1qoy
Mostly, the media just needs something to talk about and everything has to be framed as an anti Hillary story.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/25/hillary-vs-biden-would-get-ugly-fast.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/why-media-is-so-anti-hillary.html
Some also argue that unlike Hillary his middle class roots are clear. I don't really understand this narrative as she is middle class too-her husband was born poor. She wasn't born wealthy.
And since when have we bought into the GOP diversion of biography? Do all Latinos have to vote for Rubio because he's Latino himself regardless of his policies?
What we want is not the most personally middle class candidate but the candidate who would do most for the middle class. The man in American history who did the most was the patrician FDR.
Scott Walker shows you can be middle class and have terrible policies for the middle class.
So Joe is going to what? Go after her as dishonest-because of emails?-and that he will be better on the economy as he's more middle class than her?
Again, this is right out of Hillary hating Republican talking points. Is this how Biden is going to unite the party? I like Joe, He's a good man and has been a great Vice President and served his country very well-though we have him at least in part to thank for Clarence Thomas skating on Anita Hill.
You can say Hillary is a bad campaigner if you must-though I think you're wrong-but she did a lot better in 2008 than he did-in 1988 he also ran and was out by 1987.
And just to underscore my point that Biden is the Rush Limbaugh candidate-Republicans are loving 'Democrats squirming over Biden.'
“We’re constantly denounced as a circus, a clown show, a clown car,” said GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway, adding that competition has been good for the Republican field. But, she went on to add, “Pardon us if we’ve got the giggles over watching the Democrats, the so-called Democratic front-runner, hear [competitors’] footsteps and what was meant to be a runaway victory, what was meant to be a coronation, becomes their own … version of a clown car.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/gop-revels-in-joe-biden-buzz-121743.html#ixzz3jvGzWc80
Which is just silly. You are a clown car, Ms. Conway. And even if Biden comes in that wouldn't change what you are or did you miss Lindsay Graham threatening to kick Trump's ass yesterday as he trails Trump 30% to 4% in his own state of SC?
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/trump-makes-gop-pollster-frank-luntzs.html
But it does make my point that there's no good reason for Biden to run.
Again, I like Biden. I even can understand his frustration. Hillary very deftly maneuvered herself into the presumed favorite in 2013. When she appeared with Obama on 60 Minutes after the 2012 election the two looked like an old married couple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9uDUnywMu0
That was when the narrative started that Hillary is Obama's handpicked heir apparent. That was gold for her.
If things had unfolded differently I would happily support Biden now-though everybody loves him so much now because he's not running just yet. If he were to things would change. Back when Hillary was Secretary of State, everybody loved her-even many Republicans. Obama was the anti-Christ then.
People forget that Biden has this reputation as a 'gaffe machine' that I think is unfair Again, I never am swayed by GOP talking points and the gaffe machine thing is another Republican talking point.
But neither should Biden base a campaign on them and that could be his only conceivable road to victory.
As for the death of Biden's son it cuts both ways. If anything it could actually be the reason he won''t get in. Does this really sound like the Great White Hope that Lawrence O'Donnell and friends are making him out to be?
"The Joe Biden who has been reaching out to Democratic operatives and would-be donors for a potential 2016 bid isn’t quite the happy warrior of bygone days."
"Mourning the loss of his eldest son Beau, who succumbed to a brain tumor three months ago, and under intense pressure from the presidential hype he’s helped stoke, Biden is more subdued, grayer, and grimly on-task than usual — this while occupying political center stage for the first time since the promising open days of his doomed 1988 campaign."
"For all the breathless reporting on Biden’s every move and meeting, he is, at core, a 72-year-old man presented with an unexpected, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at one of the worst times of his life."
"Several people Biden has talked to in the past month say he starts off conversations by conceding that “some days are better than others,” mixing recollections of Beau with logistical questions about mounting a state-by-state challenge to a vulnerable yet still formidable Hillary Clinton."
“He’s just not himself,” says a longtime friend of Biden’s. “He’s sort of all over the place. He’s engaged but not in that child-like, manic way he usually is. He’s taking it all in and soaking up information, but he’s hard to read. And Joe Biden isn’t usually that hard to read.”
"To the annoyance of the Clinton campaign, Biden’s allies have strategically leaked his modest, noncommittal doings to the media, which have given otherwise ho-hum confabs with Elizabeth Warren and President Obama’s former counsel Bob Bauer bombshell treatment (Warren, according to a person with knowledge of the interaction, offered her usual warning against bringing more Wall Street executives into the White House; the Bauer sit-down was a relatively dry give-and-take on state election laws and deadlines)."
"But reports that the vice president has all but made up his mind to run are simply not true, according to a half-dozen people in his inner circle interviewed by POLITICO. “He’s not leaning one way or the other,” says one former aide who remains part of the extended Biden political family."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/joe-beau-biden-president-hype-2016-121749.html#ixzz3jvMR1qoy
Mostly, the media just needs something to talk about and everything has to be framed as an anti Hillary story.
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