Maybe he finally gets it. After he chose not to run he made a big point of arguing that he plans on being Obama's enforcer to make sure that no Democratic nominees run against the President.
Well Bernie is clearly running against the President and everything he stands for including hanging out all the time with Cornell West. Evidently, he doesn't know any other high profile black leaders and thinkers.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/bernie-is-hurting-himself-hanging-out.html
Maybe Biden didn't get this before when he seemed to be trying to throw spitballs at Hillary and praising Bernie. Now it sounds like he gets it.
"Vice President Joe Biden has declined to endorse a candidate in the 2016 democratic primary, after having decided not to enter the race himself. He’s consistently been supportive of both candidates in general terms, while criticizing various republican candidates. But after a television interviewer tried to take his words out of context to suggest he was criticizing Hillary Clinton last week, Biden is now taking a clear stand which suggests that he prefers Clinton over her rival Bernie Sanders."
"Biden gave a speech today at the World Economic Forum in which he spoke about the economic policies that he and President Obama have tried to operate by while in office. Without needing to mention names, Biden made a point of saying that America and other nations don’t need “socialism” which would “penalize everybody” and instead stated why reforms to capitalism are needed. This is, almost to a word, straight out of Hillary Clinton’s standard stump speech."
"Sanders regularly refers to himself as a “democratic socialist” while suggesting the United States should strive to be more like the socialist nations in Europe. Clinton has regularly defended capitalism while pointing out that it needs to be regulated and safeguarded. The timing of Joe Biden’s decision to decry socialism, just ten days before the Iowa caucus, appears to be a calculated move to align himself with the Hillary Clinton campaign. Here’s more on the Biden speech."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/in-a-clear-nod-to-hillary-clinton-vp-joe-biden-goes-on-the-attack-against-socialism/23618/
Thank you. Reform, not revolution is what liberal Democrats have always been about. I had been getting worried about Joe.
Honestly, before this I wasn't sure if I'd every forgive the man for pushing Hillary when she was stumbling like that. Maybe he realized that he faced a backlash from Democrats for it.
I for one am not a socialist. Capitalism needs to be reformed. It has been already via the ACA and Dodd-Frank.
I'm glad that Hillary is being forthright about what this choice is. Do we want to preserve, consolidate, and build on Obama's accomplishments which many Democrats believe have been transformational or do we want to burn it all down and start again?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hillary-clinton/what-president-obamas-legacy-means-to-me_b_9029740.html
Of course, the Hilary hating pundits love to mock her hugging Obama pointing out that she wasn't so friendly to him in 2007. Of course, not-he was her primary opponent. Once she lost she was totally committed to his election.
That's not the same thing as Bernie talking about primarying the President back in 2011. But overall, she's smart to hug a successful and very popular President-certainly among his own party.
It's what Al Gore should have done in 2000.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/hillary-is-hugging-obama-which-makes.html
That's really the choice confronting the Democrats. Are we going be pragmatic and accept that i 2017 we will start out mostly needing to just consolidate Obama's gains that are still under attack with change in the first few years at least being incremental?
Or do we simply demand an aspirational candidate who doesn't know much about getting things done but promises everything short of world peace, cities paved in gold, and a puppy on every porch?
Yes, the economy still has some work to do. We have finally gotten back to recovery and have had lots of jobs created but wages remain stagnant.
But this can be fixed via reforms. Hillary has a comprehensive plan to raise wages in the Uber or gig economy
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/hillary-on-uber-economy.html
Meanwhile. the ACA and Dodd-Frank will be improved on. Sure ACA hasn't insured everyone just yet but then neither did Social Security at first. When it started it covered only 5 percent of Americans.
Well Bernie is clearly running against the President and everything he stands for including hanging out all the time with Cornell West. Evidently, he doesn't know any other high profile black leaders and thinkers.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/bernie-is-hurting-himself-hanging-out.html
Maybe Biden didn't get this before when he seemed to be trying to throw spitballs at Hillary and praising Bernie. Now it sounds like he gets it.
"Vice President Joe Biden has declined to endorse a candidate in the 2016 democratic primary, after having decided not to enter the race himself. He’s consistently been supportive of both candidates in general terms, while criticizing various republican candidates. But after a television interviewer tried to take his words out of context to suggest he was criticizing Hillary Clinton last week, Biden is now taking a clear stand which suggests that he prefers Clinton over her rival Bernie Sanders."
"Biden gave a speech today at the World Economic Forum in which he spoke about the economic policies that he and President Obama have tried to operate by while in office. Without needing to mention names, Biden made a point of saying that America and other nations don’t need “socialism” which would “penalize everybody” and instead stated why reforms to capitalism are needed. This is, almost to a word, straight out of Hillary Clinton’s standard stump speech."
"Sanders regularly refers to himself as a “democratic socialist” while suggesting the United States should strive to be more like the socialist nations in Europe. Clinton has regularly defended capitalism while pointing out that it needs to be regulated and safeguarded. The timing of Joe Biden’s decision to decry socialism, just ten days before the Iowa caucus, appears to be a calculated move to align himself with the Hillary Clinton campaign. Here’s more on the Biden speech."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/in-a-clear-nod-to-hillary-clinton-vp-joe-biden-goes-on-the-attack-against-socialism/23618/
Thank you. Reform, not revolution is what liberal Democrats have always been about. I had been getting worried about Joe.
Honestly, before this I wasn't sure if I'd every forgive the man for pushing Hillary when she was stumbling like that. Maybe he realized that he faced a backlash from Democrats for it.
I for one am not a socialist. Capitalism needs to be reformed. It has been already via the ACA and Dodd-Frank.
I'm glad that Hillary is being forthright about what this choice is. Do we want to preserve, consolidate, and build on Obama's accomplishments which many Democrats believe have been transformational or do we want to burn it all down and start again?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hillary-clinton/what-president-obamas-legacy-means-to-me_b_9029740.html
Of course, the Hilary hating pundits love to mock her hugging Obama pointing out that she wasn't so friendly to him in 2007. Of course, not-he was her primary opponent. Once she lost she was totally committed to his election.
That's not the same thing as Bernie talking about primarying the President back in 2011. But overall, she's smart to hug a successful and very popular President-certainly among his own party.
It's what Al Gore should have done in 2000.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/hillary-is-hugging-obama-which-makes.html
That's really the choice confronting the Democrats. Are we going be pragmatic and accept that i 2017 we will start out mostly needing to just consolidate Obama's gains that are still under attack with change in the first few years at least being incremental?
Or do we simply demand an aspirational candidate who doesn't know much about getting things done but promises everything short of world peace, cities paved in gold, and a puppy on every porch?
Yes, the economy still has some work to do. We have finally gotten back to recovery and have had lots of jobs created but wages remain stagnant.
But this can be fixed via reforms. Hillary has a comprehensive plan to raise wages in the Uber or gig economy
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/hillary-on-uber-economy.html
Meanwhile. the ACA and Dodd-Frank will be improved on. Sure ACA hasn't insured everyone just yet but then neither did Social Security at first. When it started it covered only 5 percent of Americans.
Mike, you've got one too many i in Biden.
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