Biden jokes about 2016 run

[riversedge]

Source: the hill.com



By Jordan Fabian - 08/04/15 12:49 PM EDT

Vice President Biden isn’t dropping any hints about a possible bid for the White House in 2016.

Asked on Tuesday whether he will run for president, Biden joked to Wall Street Journal's White House correspondent Carol Lee, “Only if you’re my running mate.”


.....Vice President Biden’s sister, who has led all of his past political campaigns, said Monday that she has not spoken to her brother about a run for the White House next year.

“I have not had a single conversation with him about it,” Valerie Biden Owens told The News Journal of Delaware on Monday.Vice President Biden’s sister, who has led all of his past political campaigns, said Monday that she has not spoken to her brother about a run for the White House next year.

“I have not had a single conversation with him about it,” Valerie Biden Owens told The News Journal of Delaware on Monday.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/250191-biden-jokes-about-2016-run

[onehandle]

1. He's not running. nt

[still_one]

3. what if the reporter wants to be his running mate?

[DonViejo]

2. What a stupid reporter...

Vice President Biden isn’t dropping any hints about a possible bid for the White House in 2016.

He did more than drop a hint, he gave the reporter an answer:

...Biden joked to Wall Street Journal's White House correspondent Carol Lee, “Only if you’re my running mate.”

Would/Could Ms Lee be his running mate? Of course not, ergo, Joe Biden is not running.

[thesquanderer]

5. He didn't give an answer.

He made a joke, which is a way of avoiding giving an answer.

[LuvLoogie]

9. He's waiting to see if Elizabeth Warren is going to run.

[DonViejo]

15. You're entitled to believe whatever you want...

however, I've been around politician speak for 50 years, this reporter was given an answer to her question and it was shrouded as humor.

[jberryhill]

4. "Only if you’re my running mate"

Naturally. The reporter was a woman.

And there you have one of Joe's biggest personal flaws.

He will never give it up, and becomes positively angry at the suggestion that he's ever done anything untoward. He hasn't, but he has never in his entire career understood that's not the problem.

[Laurian]

6. Oh, stop.

That's part of Biden's personality and charm. I don't find that offensive and I get so tired of people beating the "gaffe prone" drum. He seems very human to me.

[brer cat]

8. +1

You also speak for me.

[Marie Marie]

10. +2

[PatSeg]

11. Agreed

Long ago the media tagged him as "gaffe prone" and then pounce on every opportunity to re-enforce that tag. He is very authentic and makes a relatively average amount of so called "gaffes".

[jberryhill]

14. This isn't about gaffes

[jberryhill]

16. Ever had him breathe on your neck?

I know women who have, and it was unwelcome and creepy.

[Laurian]

17. I've never met him, but I've known

men who tend to express care, concern and interest in more personal ways than most. I understand those expressions for what they are and do not automatically judge them as creepy or inappropriate. I try to see the whole person.

Joe Biden strikes me as a sensitive and caring person who has been totally shattered by personal loss more than once and has likely been sustained by close, personal attentiveness. Sometimes we give what we need the most.

You have your opinion, I have mine.

[jberryhill]

18. "I've never met him"

Try having your grade in a class at law school depend on putting up with it.

Try knowing that for three hours on Saturday morning, you are going to receive unwelcome and unwanted touching by someone with authority over you and the full support of the administration of the school.

[moonscape]

22. Totally agree, and

any/all gaffs would play much differently now that voters are clamoring for authenticity.

[msanthrope]

13. Yes. This. nt

[spiderpig]

7. I like Joe.

[davidpdx]

12. I never knew Biden had a sister

I think it is very unlikely he'll run. Had it not been for his son's chronic illness I think he probably would have.

[Attorney in Texas]

19. Harry Enten's interesting analysis for Nate Silver's 538: "Joe Biden Isn’t The Anti-Clinton"

Biden doesn’t have a clear constituency in the Democratic Party.... If Biden’s entry into the race were expected to hurt Clinton more than the other candidates, then we’d expect him to disproportionately earn the votes of Democrats who might otherwise be voting for Clinton. That’s not what’s happening... Biden pulls proportionally from all the Democratic candidates. About 59 percent of Biden voters say Clinton is their second choice — about the same overall level of support Clinton earns among the Democratic electorate. And about 12 percent of Biden backers would go to Sen. Bernie Sanders, a smaller percentage than Sanders’s overall level of support.

[candelista]

20. The only way Biden will run is if Hillary's bid collapses.

He knows his place. As the article cited in the previous post says, Biden is "a break-glass-in-case-of-Clinton-emergency candidate.”