Well done, Mr. Vice President. You made the right choice. It was clearly way too late. If he had gotten in a year ago I would have considered voting for him but now was just too late.
This has gotten rather excruciating and a few friends on Twitter became upset with me for calling Biden out. I'm sorry about that but this election is too important to be anyone's prop for grief counseling.
This morning I argued it was hard to see him running after first revising history on the Bin Laden raid and then saying he likes Dick Cheney and thinks the Republicans are swell guys. I mean this is not what a Democratic electorate wants to hear I don't think.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/joe-biden-boasts-of-liking-dick-cheney.html
Biden has now come to the right decision on his own.
This has gotten rather excruciating and a few friends on Twitter became upset with me for calling Biden out. I'm sorry about that but this election is too important to be anyone's prop for grief counseling.
This morning I argued it was hard to see him running after first revising history on the Bin Laden raid and then saying he likes Dick Cheney and thinks the Republicans are swell guys. I mean this is not what a Democratic electorate wants to hear I don't think.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/joe-biden-boasts-of-liking-dick-cheney.html
Biden has now come to the right decision on his own.
Vice President Joe Biden has decided not to mount a third run for the presidency, announcing in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, ending months of emotional hand-wringing within the Biden family and heated public speculation about whether he would launch a campaign.
"As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along what I've said time and again to others, that it may very well be that the process by the time we get through it closes the window ... I've concluded it has closed," he said.
"The decision to stay out of the race comes as Biden is still openly grieving the death of his son Beau Biden from brain cancer earlier this year. His death had been part of the motivation for Biden to run and the source of skepticism regarding the vice president’s emotional state."
"The absence of a Biden run is likely welcome news to Hillary Clinton, who has a strong lead in national polls among Democratic voters and delivered a solid first debate performance, but who is battling a seemingly never-ending barrage of negative headlines regarding her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Biden could have pulled both voter support and fundraising dollars away from the Clinton campaign."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/biden-215013#ixzz3pDksasFw
Chris Matthews came on MSNBC after the speech and gave us the usual Beltway baloney about how Biden is warning HRC not to stray from Obama's legacy. How has she shown she wants to do that? HRC is the President's hand-picked successor.
I agree with what Rachel Maddow said after. The timing for Joe may not have been great but it's also realism: he can''t beat Hillary who is going to steamroll her way to this nomination.
"As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along what I've said time and again to others, that it may very well be that the process by the time we get through it closes the window ... I've concluded it has closed," he said.
"The decision to stay out of the race comes as Biden is still openly grieving the death of his son Beau Biden from brain cancer earlier this year. His death had been part of the motivation for Biden to run and the source of skepticism regarding the vice president’s emotional state."
"The absence of a Biden run is likely welcome news to Hillary Clinton, who has a strong lead in national polls among Democratic voters and delivered a solid first debate performance, but who is battling a seemingly never-ending barrage of negative headlines regarding her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Biden could have pulled both voter support and fundraising dollars away from the Clinton campaign."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/biden-215013#ixzz3pDksasFw
Chris Matthews came on MSNBC after the speech and gave us the usual Beltway baloney about how Biden is warning HRC not to stray from Obama's legacy. How has she shown she wants to do that? HRC is the President's hand-picked successor.
I agree with what Rachel Maddow said after. The timing for Joe may not have been great but it's also realism: he can''t beat Hillary who is going to steamroll her way to this nomination.
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