I think it's official, he's jumped the shark. I've always loved the man and appreciate what he's done for our country both in the Senate and as VP. But at this point, I'm just going to say it: he's losing me.
I guess he just wants to feel relevant. He's not going to run-that much should be obvious. The Beltway loves to play this game of make believe where it's never too late for him to get in-heck, why not after the election is over? No one has a right to decide but Joe!
But now he's really jumping the shark by saying wild things.
1. He is revising history and claiming that he was for the Bin Laden raid even though President Obama's own account has it that Biden was a little more skeptical of the move at the time. Worse, he's trying to minimize Hillary's contribution to the decision.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/i-love-you-joe-biden-now-please-stop-youre-hurting-us/22871/
2. This would be bad enough but now he's saying something truly weird. That Republicans aren't his enemy, even that he likes Dick Cheney. Does he really think this is the way to get the majority of Democrats who don't want him to run back on his side?
"But Joe Biden’s insistence that he likes Dick Cheney “for real” is where I really start to worry. In an attempt at painting himself as bipartisan, he’s aligning himself with a widely despised war criminal who would be in prison if he didn’t happen to be the VP at the time he committed those crimes. Who on earth does Joe think he’s winning over by putting himself in Cheney’s corner?"
"There are some things in life you just shouldn’t do unless you’re absolutely certain to want to do them. Running for President is one of them. If Joe had entered the race in a normal timeframe and acted like he really wanted the job, I’d have had to give him serious consideration. But I don’t want this version of Joe Biden running for President, the one who says absurd things to try to make his own party’s frontrunner look bad even as he can’t make up his mind whether he even wants to run."
No one who has the good of the party in mind wants him in:
"The only people rooting for Joe to enter the race at this point are those liberals who are too politically naive to realize how his late entry would hurt the chances of the democrats winning in 2016, and those conservatives who are aware of precisely how much damage he would due to the chances of the democrats. If anyone is telling Joe otherwise, he’s being played. If he does end up confirming that he won’t run, and at this point it would need to happen very quickly, all is forgiven. But in the mean time, Joe, I hate to say it: I love you, man. But you’re hurting us. And you’re hurting yourself. Please quit while you’re ahead."
For the record, I actually think that HRC's attitude towards the Republicans may actually prove to be a huge advantage. As much as I love President Obama, I think it's fair to say that she wouldn't have been roiled the way he was in early 2009 as she would have known all along that they would never have worked with her or any Democratic President.
It took the President basically his whole first term to get that post partisan Washington has a nice ring to it but it's precisely no place.
Rachel Maddow has made this point.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/hillary-clinton-is-all-about-taking.html
My guess is that she unlike POTUS in his first term will come in with no compunction about getting it down on the executive side of things, realizing that the legislative lane is closed until a Dem House.
A lot of people preferred Obama's talk of Yes we can to Hillary's pragmatism in 2008 but 7 years later I think most liberals now realize that you're not going to get the Republicans to be nice, reasonable guys by appealing to their sense of reason and fairness.
I guess he just wants to feel relevant. He's not going to run-that much should be obvious. The Beltway loves to play this game of make believe where it's never too late for him to get in-heck, why not after the election is over? No one has a right to decide but Joe!
But now he's really jumping the shark by saying wild things.
1. He is revising history and claiming that he was for the Bin Laden raid even though President Obama's own account has it that Biden was a little more skeptical of the move at the time. Worse, he's trying to minimize Hillary's contribution to the decision.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/i-love-you-joe-biden-now-please-stop-youre-hurting-us/22871/
2. This would be bad enough but now he's saying something truly weird. That Republicans aren't his enemy, even that he likes Dick Cheney. Does he really think this is the way to get the majority of Democrats who don't want him to run back on his side?
"But Joe Biden’s insistence that he likes Dick Cheney “for real” is where I really start to worry. In an attempt at painting himself as bipartisan, he’s aligning himself with a widely despised war criminal who would be in prison if he didn’t happen to be the VP at the time he committed those crimes. Who on earth does Joe think he’s winning over by putting himself in Cheney’s corner?"
"There are some things in life you just shouldn’t do unless you’re absolutely certain to want to do them. Running for President is one of them. If Joe had entered the race in a normal timeframe and acted like he really wanted the job, I’d have had to give him serious consideration. But I don’t want this version of Joe Biden running for President, the one who says absurd things to try to make his own party’s frontrunner look bad even as he can’t make up his mind whether he even wants to run."
No one who has the good of the party in mind wants him in:
"The only people rooting for Joe to enter the race at this point are those liberals who are too politically naive to realize how his late entry would hurt the chances of the democrats winning in 2016, and those conservatives who are aware of precisely how much damage he would due to the chances of the democrats. If anyone is telling Joe otherwise, he’s being played. If he does end up confirming that he won’t run, and at this point it would need to happen very quickly, all is forgiven. But in the mean time, Joe, I hate to say it: I love you, man. But you’re hurting us. And you’re hurting yourself. Please quit while you’re ahead."
For the record, I actually think that HRC's attitude towards the Republicans may actually prove to be a huge advantage. As much as I love President Obama, I think it's fair to say that she wouldn't have been roiled the way he was in early 2009 as she would have known all along that they would never have worked with her or any Democratic President.
It took the President basically his whole first term to get that post partisan Washington has a nice ring to it but it's precisely no place.
Rachel Maddow has made this point.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/hillary-clinton-is-all-about-taking.html
My guess is that she unlike POTUS in his first term will come in with no compunction about getting it down on the executive side of things, realizing that the legislative lane is closed until a Dem House.
A lot of people preferred Obama's talk of Yes we can to Hillary's pragmatism in 2008 but 7 years later I think most liberals now realize that you're not going to get the Republicans to be nice, reasonable guys by appealing to their sense of reason and fairness.
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