Joe Biden still wants to run for president. At least, his friends tell me, a big part of him does. He talks about the prospect readily, whenever reporters or voters ask. He doesn't sound as if the ambition that fired him to run when he was 44 or 64 has diminished at 72.

"What would drive me to do it would be if I thought that I could do it better than anybody else," he said in December.

"I think this thing is wide open on both sides," he said in January.

"That's a family, personal decision that I'm going to make sometime at the end of the summer," he told reporters in Iowa last month.

After 46 years in politics, Biden's earned the right to be taken seriously. Despite his gaffes — some of which fall into the "Kinsley gaffe" category of revealing politically unpalatable truths — he's turned in a solid performance as vice president. He's negotiated fiscal compromises with balky Republican leaders in Congress. He's massaged the egos (and, who knows, perhaps the shoulders) of foreign leaders from Iraq to Japan. A CNN poll last week found that 71% of Democratic voters think highly of him.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0325-mcmanus-joe-biden-20150325-column.html


This clown is actually making a case for a Biden nomination.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on March 24, 2015, 10:34:34 PM
Joe Biden still wants to run for president. At least, his friends tell me, a big part of him does. He talks about the prospect readily, whenever reporters or voters ask. He doesn't sound as if the ambition that fired him to run when he was 44 or 64 has diminished at 72.

"What would drive me to do it would be if I thought that I could do it better than anybody else," he said in December.

"I think this thing is wide open on both sides," he said in January.

"That's a family, personal decision that I'm going to make sometime at the end of the summer," he told reporters in Iowa last month.

After 46 years in politics, Biden's earned the right to be taken seriously. Despite his gaffes — some of which fall into the "Kinsley gaffe" category of revealing politically unpalatable truths — he's turned in a solid performance as vice president. He's negotiated fiscal compromises with balky Republican leaders in Congress. He's massaged the egos (and, who knows, perhaps the shoulders) of foreign leaders from Iraq to Japan. A CNN poll last week found that 71% of Democratic voters think highly of him.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0325-mcmanus-joe-biden-20150325-column.html


This clown is actually making a case for a Biden nomination.

Maybe he could be head monkey of the democrats.

Joe Biden would never under any circumstances ever win that nomination, simply because of his loose talk and heavy drinking. But puhleeze by all means let him grab up Demo-dollars and actually amuse us by running. Think Donald Trump with less hair. Same gravitas.

Ah, 2016. Can't get here fast enough....

If it's Clinton, we get Bubba 3, and on HER watch the correct US Supreme Court Justice WILL be put through...ensuring her family foundation gets off the hook when the retirement years finally do arrive. (My money on that one is still on Cass Sunstein now that Dershowitz is even tangentally tied in to the Lolita Island scandal Bubba was tied to.)

Me, I'm not excited yet. Politically this is still so early only the young turks are getting out there. Same as any cycle, just a slightly more muscular bunch of candidates all trying to convince us they really CAN undo the Obamatrauma™.

Quote from: quiller on March 25, 2015, 05:47:35 AM
Joe Biden would never under any circumstances ever win that nomination, simply because of his loose talk and heavy drinking. But puhleeze by all means let him grab up Demo-dollars and actually amuse us by running. Think Donald Trump with less hair. Same gravitas.

Ah, 2016. Can't get here fast enough....

If it's Clinton, we get Bubba 3, and on HER watch the correct US Supreme Court Justice WILL be put through...ensuring her family foundation gets off the hook when the retirement years finally do arrive. (My money on that one is still on Cass Sunstein now that Dershowitz is even tangentally tied in to the Lolita Island scandal Bubba was tied to.)

Me, I'm not excited yet. Politically this is still so early only the young turks are getting out there. Same as any cycle, just a slightly more muscular bunch of candidates all trying to convince us they really CAN undo the Obamatrauma™.

That last sentence.....don't know what else can be said by any of them that we haven't already heard by their fore runners.   I guess we'll have to put up with it for awhile.  So much has happened in such a short time under this destructive adm. that I'm wondering just how long it will take to get it right or, at the very least, better..

Quote from: keyboarder on March 25, 2015, 05:55:25 AM
That last sentence.....don't know what else can be said by any of them that we haven't already heard by their fore runners.   I guess we'll have to put up with it for awhile.  So much has happened in such a short time under this destructive adm. that I'm wondering just how long it will take to get it right or, at the very least, better..

The direction can be changed immediately. However, it will take time to purge some of the people and their ideas that are now entrenched in the bureaucracy. The first thing that a new president should do is fire every appointee of Obama. This was part of Bush's downfall in that he let too many Clintonistas stick around.

He can announce his candidacy from that bar he still goes to regularly, which closed seven-years ago.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on March 24, 2015, 10:34:34 PM
This clown is actually making a case for a Biden nomination.

Boy, the Dims really are scared of Shilary as a candidate, aren't they! Didn't they notice all the baggage before they started in on her "coronation"? Now they realize that if they do nominate her, the GOP will have a field day