Many in the press can't bear to let the Biden mania end-it was always more what the media wanted than Democrats. Most Dems love the Vice President and appreciate his partnership with the President but didn't feel a compelling need for him to save the party from Hillary as she is doing fine thank you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joe-biden-poll_562a8497e4b0ec0a389474f1
However, the new narrative is that Biden is HRC's understudy and will be watching to see if she somehow shows she's running from the President's record.
This doesn't make much sense as she is clearly not doing this. Obama himself when asked about her position on Keystone put it in some perspective. He knows they agree on 95% of things and he is not going to be taking issue with her having her own program and agenda.
Biden seems to want some kind of role as kingmaker. He won't give HRC's endorsment for awhile, she has to earn it, apparently.
Bernie on Saturday night clearly was trying to do right by Biden by talking about how bad things were when the President got into office. This is right though I don't think any Democrats were saying otherwise with Joe.
However, the one issue where issue must be taken is on the illusion of bipartisanship. Biden chose to sing from the hymnal recently, clearly meaning to criticize HRC for saying the GOPers are her enemy.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/joe-biden-boasts-of-liking-dick-cheney.html
On this he is dead wrong and it needs to be said. She is right about the GOP. Obama deserves all kinds of credit for his accomplishments and I agree about his historical achievements.
Nevertheless, he would have been better off had he not trusted the GOP in 2009 and he learnt this lesson over time.
"Biden’s paean to bipartisanship is old thinking, a vestige of the past. That he is still making this argument in the face of all we know should strike fear into the hearts of Democrats everywhere, should he actually become president."
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/biden-got-out-at-just-right-time.html
Heather Digby wrote this the morning that Biden would step down. I don't think it was any kind of coincidence that he stepped down just after revealing himself to be a Dick Cheney Democrat. I suspect the President very gently pulled the plug at this point.
Back go Digby:
"I have written about this before, but it’s worth repeating. Dan Pfeiffer, one of President Obama’s closest advisors, gave an exit interview to Jonathan Chait when he left the White House a while back, in which he explained the evolution of thinking from the time the administration first assumed office."
Per Chait:
The original premise of Obama’s first presidential campaign was that he could reason with Republicans—or else, by staking out obviously reasonable stances, force them to moderate or be exposed as extreme and unyielding. It took years for the White House to conclude that this was false, and that, in Pfeiffer’s words, “what drives 90 percent of stuff is not the small tactical decisions or the personal relationships but the big, macro political incentives.”
It certainly did not help that Joe Biden was friends with Republicans back in 2011 when he went behind Harry Reid’s back and negotiated the deal which will be remembered as the low point of the Obama administration — a low point which served as a lesson in how not to deal with Republicans."
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/21/joe_bidens_disastrous_gop_strategy_why_making_a_campaign_about_bipartisanship_can_only_end_in_failure/
It's rather baffling that Biden after being part of this WH for six and a half years still sees breaking an olive branch with Republicans as the solution.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joe-biden-poll_562a8497e4b0ec0a389474f1
However, the new narrative is that Biden is HRC's understudy and will be watching to see if she somehow shows she's running from the President's record.
This doesn't make much sense as she is clearly not doing this. Obama himself when asked about her position on Keystone put it in some perspective. He knows they agree on 95% of things and he is not going to be taking issue with her having her own program and agenda.
Biden seems to want some kind of role as kingmaker. He won't give HRC's endorsment for awhile, she has to earn it, apparently.
Bernie on Saturday night clearly was trying to do right by Biden by talking about how bad things were when the President got into office. This is right though I don't think any Democrats were saying otherwise with Joe.
However, the one issue where issue must be taken is on the illusion of bipartisanship. Biden chose to sing from the hymnal recently, clearly meaning to criticize HRC for saying the GOPers are her enemy.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/joe-biden-boasts-of-liking-dick-cheney.html
On this he is dead wrong and it needs to be said. She is right about the GOP. Obama deserves all kinds of credit for his accomplishments and I agree about his historical achievements.
Nevertheless, he would have been better off had he not trusted the GOP in 2009 and he learnt this lesson over time.
"Biden’s paean to bipartisanship is old thinking, a vestige of the past. That he is still making this argument in the face of all we know should strike fear into the hearts of Democrats everywhere, should he actually become president."
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/biden-got-out-at-just-right-time.html
Heather Digby wrote this the morning that Biden would step down. I don't think it was any kind of coincidence that he stepped down just after revealing himself to be a Dick Cheney Democrat. I suspect the President very gently pulled the plug at this point.
Back go Digby:
"I have written about this before, but it’s worth repeating. Dan Pfeiffer, one of President Obama’s closest advisors, gave an exit interview to Jonathan Chait when he left the White House a while back, in which he explained the evolution of thinking from the time the administration first assumed office."
Per Chait:
The original premise of Obama’s first presidential campaign was that he could reason with Republicans—or else, by staking out obviously reasonable stances, force them to moderate or be exposed as extreme and unyielding. It took years for the White House to conclude that this was false, and that, in Pfeiffer’s words, “what drives 90 percent of stuff is not the small tactical decisions or the personal relationships but the big, macro political incentives.”
It certainly did not help that Joe Biden was friends with Republicans back in 2011 when he went behind Harry Reid’s back and negotiated the deal which will be remembered as the low point of the Obama administration — a low point which served as a lesson in how not to deal with Republicans."
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/21/joe_bidens_disastrous_gop_strategy_why_making_a_campaign_about_bipartisanship_can_only_end_in_failure/
It's rather baffling that Biden after being part of this WH for six and a half years still sees breaking an olive branch with Republicans as the solution.
It is certainly more clear than ever that Democrats were right in choosing HRC over him.
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