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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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To: Servant of the Cross

That’s what I am thinking. Even one of the mediocre candidates the GOP has a habit of running should be able to beat Biden. (note, I said SHOULD)Unless the GOP is touring halfway houses for their pick....


21 posted on 01/23/2013 12:42:48 PM PST by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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22 posted on 01/23/2013 12:43:11 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead; Roscoe Karns

LOL!


23 posted on 01/23/2013 12:48:50 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

could WE get him nominated?


24 posted on 01/23/2013 12:51:51 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Servant of the Cross

He’s knows he’s not black, right?

Someone needs to tell him he is NOT middle class (as he repeatedly told audiences last election).


25 posted on 01/23/2013 12:54:06 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Biden is making a play for the gay vote.


26 posted on 01/23/2013 12:55:45 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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27 posted on 01/23/2013 12:56:07 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Quickgun

Mooch-hell wants her turn and isn’t going to waste time with a Senate seat like her husband or Hillary.


28 posted on 01/23/2013 12:57:10 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I’m sure not laughing. The intelligence of the left along with the sock puppet media proves that ANYBODY can become pResident.

And...be re-elected.


29 posted on 01/23/2013 1:04:28 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

So I guess it’s not the Vodka he keeps in his drawer?


30 posted on 01/23/2013 1:06:14 PM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: a fool in paradise
Take your damn hand off my knee, Asshat!
31 posted on 01/23/2013 1:10:49 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Servant of the Cross

Geez. Obama wins election twice, now everyone thinks they can be president. I’ve got this illegal alien friend... I’m just thinking outside the box. What do you think?


32 posted on 01/23/2013 1:18:24 PM PST by PatriotCause (California Sucks)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Joe Biden is the Inspector Clouseau of American politics. Good for a laugh, but never to be taken seriously.


33 posted on 01/23/2013 1:44:41 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

He is too old now and too stupid. I say go for it.


34 posted on 01/23/2013 1:50:49 PM PST by Swede Girl
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To: Servant of the Cross

In order to run for office he'll need to be a woman and have a lot more hair.

35 posted on 01/23/2013 2:15:40 PM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - V. Lenin)
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36 posted on 01/23/2013 2:19:51 PM PST by mikrofon (Stand up, Joe!)
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To: billorites

That was a fairly common event at a very popular watering hole near the University of Delaware back in the day............


37 posted on 01/23/2013 2:30:02 PM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Joe meet Hillary. Hillary meet Joe. See ya later Joe.


38 posted on 01/23/2013 2:32:00 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: Servant of the Cross; mickie; flaglady47; Chigirl 26
I'm surprised no one has commented on the antics of Biden after he and Jill left their limo to do the obligatory 2-block walk on foot in the Inaugural Parade.

Joe was running back and forth across the street with this MANIC smile on his face....leaving Jill alone on the walk, looking around constantly to see where her doofus husband was. She plodded grimly ahead without an escort till she reached the limosine, a protocol no-no in DC. In an event like this, you don't desert your wife....it's like leaving your girlfriend stranded alone in the middle of the Gym Jams dance floor.

Real classy.

As he ran back and forth from curb to curb like a yo-yo on speed, he was constantly pointing his thumb and index finger in the two-fingered gun position aiming at certain folks on the curb, mugging for the TV cameras and showing off like everybody in the crowd was a personal friend worthy of his fleshy finger aimed at them.

The same childish gun gesture, of course, that puts 6-year old kindergarten kids in school dentention for 6 months....or for one year if they yell "pow" when they point.

Leni

39 posted on 01/23/2013 3:06:46 PM PST by MinuteGal (Send a penny NOW to CNN, 1 Time-Warner Center, NY,NY 10019 for "PENNIES FOR LEAVING!" (Piers Morgan))
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To: a fool in paradise

That whitey hatin’ wookie has no chance in hell.


40 posted on 01/23/2013 3:09:47 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Obama has turned America into an aristocracy of the unaccomplished.)
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