This politico piece certainly makes it sound like it.
"The VP's inner circle thinks he can bide his time a while longer -- even into the spring -- before deciding whether to run for president."
"The VP's inner circle thinks he can bide his time a while longer -- even into the spring -- before deciding whether to run for president."
"People who’ve spoken with the vice president say he doesn’t seem in any rush. Earlier in the process, Biden's staff had been insisting to some reporters that the "end of summer'' isn’t technically until Sept. 23. That’s next Wednesday. No one believes at this point that’ll be the cutoff."
"Most of Biden’s decision-making is driven largely by his own emotional process. But according to people familiar with the discussions going on in his inner circle, two other factors also loom large: whether Hillary Clinton will implode (and if so, when), and how long he can count on public goodwill toward him lasting."
"It turns out that instead of simply deciding yes or no on a presidential run, Biden may have a third option — make no announcement at all, wait until December (or longer) and hope Clinton gets out of the race or is pushed to the sidelines without him having to get in."
"The third option would be harder to mount organizationally and emotionally, but it would save him a bitter nomination fight against a former Senate and Obama administration colleague. In effect, it would mean that he could run for president without having to run against Hillary Clinton."
"The question that worries his inner circle is how much patience people will have in the meantime for his Hamlet routine."
“They’re testing it,” said one person who’s spoken with the people laying the plans. “They’re feeling it out.”
"Most of Biden’s decision-making is driven largely by his own emotional process. But according to people familiar with the discussions going on in his inner circle, two other factors also loom large: whether Hillary Clinton will implode (and if so, when), and how long he can count on public goodwill toward him lasting."
"It turns out that instead of simply deciding yes or no on a presidential run, Biden may have a third option — make no announcement at all, wait until December (or longer) and hope Clinton gets out of the race or is pushed to the sidelines without him having to get in."
"The third option would be harder to mount organizationally and emotionally, but it would save him a bitter nomination fight against a former Senate and Obama administration colleague. In effect, it would mean that he could run for president without having to run against Hillary Clinton."
"The question that worries his inner circle is how much patience people will have in the meantime for his Hamlet routine."
“They’re testing it,” said one person who’s spoken with the people laying the plans. “They’re feeling it out.”
Ok. Let me again stress this. I love and respect the Vice President and appreciate everything he has done for his country and for the Obama Presidency. He's been a great partner for the President.
Furthermore, he has gone through the terrible tragedy that no parent should have to in burying his own son.
There ought to be a natural law against parents having to bury their own children.
And yes, I do get that it must be tough for Biden to pull the plug on this because once he does it's so final, It shuts the door.
But it's also clear he isn't going to run. So with that in mind and as he is a good Democrat shouldn't being a good Democrat now mean, stopping this game of footsie with the Beltway media?
Rachel Maddow was on with Bernie again last night. Funny unlike when Hillary was on, she didn't sic Andrea Mitchell on him to interrogate him for 20 minutes over emails.
There ought to be a natural law against parents having to bury their own children.
And yes, I do get that it must be tough for Biden to pull the plug on this because once he does it's so final, It shuts the door.
But it's also clear he isn't going to run. So with that in mind and as he is a good Democrat shouldn't being a good Democrat now mean, stopping this game of footsie with the Beltway media?
Rachel Maddow was on with Bernie again last night. Funny unlike when Hillary was on, she didn't sic Andrea Mitchell on him to interrogate him for 20 minutes over emails.
Then she said 'My thought-and I have no basis-is that Biden probably won't run.'
The sad thing is that she's right and a lot closer to reality to most pundits. But she kind of watered down her being right but saying she had no basis for thinking it.
The basis is that it's quickly becoming too late for him to set the ground game to doing this and the idea is becoming a pie in the sky.
But I don't love to hear that Biden's team is sitting their just waiting and hoping her campaign falls apart.
And by holding out the specter to the press, by never letting the matter drop, it's another club for the media to beat Hillary about the head with.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/killing-hillary-with-biden-i-love-vp.html
So if he's a good Democrat Biden should pull the plug. Maybe he's kind of doing that here but he can't bring himself to pull the band-aid off all at once.
The sad thing is that she's right and a lot closer to reality to most pundits. But she kind of watered down her being right but saying she had no basis for thinking it.
The basis is that it's quickly becoming too late for him to set the ground game to doing this and the idea is becoming a pie in the sky.
But I don't love to hear that Biden's team is sitting their just waiting and hoping her campaign falls apart.
And by holding out the specter to the press, by never letting the matter drop, it's another club for the media to beat Hillary about the head with.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/killing-hillary-with-biden-i-love-vp.html
So if he's a good Democrat Biden should pull the plug. Maybe he's kind of doing that here but he can't bring himself to pull the band-aid off all at once.
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