Posted on 09/14/2015 8:01:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Vice President Joe Biden is acting like a presidential candidate even if he doesn't sound like one.
During Biden's trip to New York City last week, the Democrat starred in a campaign-like rally to raise the minimum wage and opened up about his personal life during an interview with late-night host Stephen Colbert.
During his emotional Colbert interview, Biden said he was still distraught over the death of his son, Beau, and did not seem up to the challenges of the presidential campaign trail.
"I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there," he said.
At the same time, however, Biden was apparently planning to do what political candidates often do in New York: meet with potential fundraisers from the finance industry.
According to a Bloomberg Politics report published Monday, Biden had a lengthy, one-on-one meeting with Robert Wolf shortly after the Colbert interview. Wolf, a former top executive at UBS, is a veteran Wall Street deal maker.
Wolf is also deeply involved in politics and government.
Indeed, Bloomberg's John Heilemann described Wolf as "a prodigious buck-raker on behalf of Barack Obama in two successive campaigns, a four-time appointee to economic panels in the Obama administration, and perhaps the only person in the American business community — and certainly the sole Wall Street potentate — with whom Obama during his time in office has developed a deep and genuine friendship."
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What do the dems do, fundraise with wall street, tell them that to get votes they will have to publicly denounce them, but it is just an act and they will continue their cronyism once elected?
We definitely want the dem nomination to be highly contested... keep the crossovers down in the R primaries.
Oh with all that money you have made in 8 years you can’t fund your own campaign??? Poor thing, someone else that is running is funding his own campaign and he isn’t even a politician.....
I’m intrigued
The good old boy club huddles.
Gonna make an interesting decision for Liz Warren if he offers the VP slot.
Joe Biden... 2016’s “Walter Mondale.”
“What do the dems do, fundraise with wall street, tell them that to get votes they will have to publicly denounce them, but it is just an act and they will continue their cronyism once elected?”
That’s EXACTLY what they do!
Joe who? It took me a few moments the other day trying to remember who the Vice President was.
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