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Joe Biden 'intoxicated' by 2016 run
Poluttico ^ | 1/23/2013 | Vandehei and Allen

Posted on 01/23/2013 11:59:10 AM PST by Servant of the Cross

Joe Biden summoned more than 200 Democratic insiders to the vice presidential residence Sunday night to chat about the 2012 triumph — but many walked away convinced his rising 2016 ambitions were the real intent of the long, intimate night.

“I took a look at who was there,” said longtime New Hampshire state Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, “and said to myself, ‘There’s no question he’s thinking about the future.’”

He’s right. Biden, according to a number of advisers and Democrats who have spoken to him in recent months, wants to run, or at least be well positioned to run, if and when he decides to pull the trigger. Biden has expressed a clear sense of urgency, convinced the Democratic field will be defined quickly — and that it might very well come down to a private chat with Hillary Clinton about who should finish what Barack Obama started.

“He’s intoxicated by the idea, and it’s impossible not to be intoxicated by the idea,” said a Democrat close to the White House. And the intoxication is hardly new. Officials working on the Obama-Biden campaign last year were struck by how the vice president always seemed to have one eye on a run, including aggressively courting the president’s donors. Obama aides at times had to actively steer Biden to places where he was needed — like Pennsylvania — because he kept asking to be deployed to Iowa, New Hampshire and other early states.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2016demprimary; 2016election; biden; biden2016; diversion; election2016; intoxicated; iowa; newhampshire; pennsylvania; plagiarist; shahanshah
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Run Joe Run!
1 posted on 01/23/2013 11:59:13 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
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To: Servant of the Cross
Hillary will just have him Vince Fostered.
2 posted on 01/23/2013 12:01:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Joe Biden intoxicated....

There...fixed it....


3 posted on 01/23/2013 12:05:55 PM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Run Joe Run!

Haha . . . I too so hope he runs.

Surely even the cretins who voted Obama into office will not bother to show up at the polls on election day for Biden . . . although perhaps I shouldn’t underestimate the ignorance of the electorate given the last two Presidential cycles.


4 posted on 01/23/2013 12:07:06 PM PST by AtlasStalled
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To: Servant of the Cross

Great title/
yes, Joe will no doubt be intoxicated before during and
after a 2016 run.


5 posted on 01/23/2013 12:07:17 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: Servant of the Cross

Team him up with a transgender cross dressing freak and he will be a shoe-in. This is not tong and cheek I’m dead serious We couldn’t beat barry, we don’t have a chance in hell


6 posted on 01/23/2013 12:09:02 PM PST by woodenickel
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To: Servant of the Cross

Absolutely no chance in the primaries. Partisan Dems appreciate Joe as a team player but are already nervous enough that he’s next in line to the presidency. A sober GOP candidate like Rubio, Ryan, Jindal, etc. would utterly destroy Clown Biden, and Dems know this.


7 posted on 01/23/2013 12:09:23 PM PST by pogo101
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To: Servant of the Cross

You don't have to go home Mr. Vice-President, but you can't stay here.

8 posted on 01/23/2013 12:09:31 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Joe Biden just plain intoxicated
9 posted on 01/23/2013 12:10:40 PM PST by SC DOC
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To: Servant of the Cross

I say so many stupid things ... cause I'm drunk ... and not just because I'm a moron!

10 posted on 01/23/2013 12:13:43 PM PST by Zakeet (Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage - Mencken)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Hillary is just intoxicated.


11 posted on 01/23/2013 12:16:25 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.
12 posted on 01/23/2013 12:17:48 PM PST by ASA Vet (314th MI Bn (CEWI) / 207th MI Bde / VII Corp)
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To: Servant of the Cross

13 posted on 01/23/2013 12:20:10 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Zakeet

Also, ole “gaff a day Joe” is 70 and will turn 74 during the run up to the 2016 election. So, health will become a significant factor as he ages.


14 posted on 01/23/2013 12:26:34 PM PST by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: billorites

Hey, I'm runnin' for president in '16! Will you be in my parade?

15 posted on 01/23/2013 12:27:58 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Head Fake alert!

Head Fake alert!

I'm more than a little confident in my suspicion that there are no plans for Slow Joe to do anything further after 2016.

The Dems would want us to focus on such a fool, however.

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16 posted on 01/23/2013 12:29:12 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Servant of the Cross

wouldnt it be sweet if Obama endorsed him and he beat Hilary in the primaries?


17 posted on 01/23/2013 12:30:21 PM PST by MNDude
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Hillary will just have him Vince Fostered.

Yes, it's hysterical. He really thinks he's a 'storybook' too ... clean, bright and articulate! He's toast.

18 posted on 01/23/2013 12:32:29 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Almost as laughable as the chance of a foreign national with a fake birth certificate and a false SS card winning the presidency. Oh wait…


19 posted on 01/23/2013 12:32:39 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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Joe Biden 'intoxicated' by 2016 run

Well, that and booze.

20 posted on 01/23/2013 12:40:15 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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