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Allegedly Breaking: Fox claims sources say ‘Joe Biden’s in’
Canada Free Press ^ | 10/19/15 | Robert Laurie

Posted on 10/19/2015 11:35:46 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Of course he is.

Consider this, if you will, an indicator. The Democrat presidential field is so weak, so incredibly feeble, that Joe Biden looks like he could be its savior. Let that sink in, because if Fox News is right Crazy Uncle Joe is about to announce his candidacy.

Consider this, if you will, an indicator. The Democrat presidential field is so weak, so incredibly feeble, that Joe Biden looks like he could be its savior. Let that sink in, because if Fox News is right Crazy Uncle Joe is about to announce his candidacy.

Rumors have been rampant that Biden has finally made a decision, and that he’s planning to launch a campaign within the next 48 hours. According to Fox News sources, the rumored decision is correct, but the timeline of Biden’s announcement is still undetermined.


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: biden; election; presidential
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To: Sean_Anthony

“The Democrat presidential field is so weak, so incredibly feeble, that Joe Biden looks like he could be its savior.” That’s utterly priceless! The field is so weak and incredibly feeble that they’re going to send in another old, white guy - this one an escapee from the Village Idiot farm - to rescue them.


81 posted on 10/19/2015 1:18:12 PM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Sean_Anthony

I heard from someone, who is very good friends of the Bidens, that this was still quite up in the air.


82 posted on 10/19/2015 2:00:46 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: ManHunter

Biden has run before and never done very well. Now he could win the nomination by default since he is all that they have left.


83 posted on 10/19/2015 2:08:12 PM PDT by ez (Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is... - Milton)
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To: Sean_Anthony

They’ve done everything possible to save Hillary’s backside but guess it wasn’t enough so he has to step into the nomination.


84 posted on 10/19/2015 2:28:52 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SubMareener

No reason to be condescending.

My comment was about Biden not questioning Trump. I know Trump has been around the block a time or two.

My concern is that the general consensus seems to be that Biden is a circus clown or a fool or a crazy “Uncle”.

Biden is a mean, vicious, vile, in your face, do whatever it takes to win politician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGNsZgI0MA0


85 posted on 10/19/2015 2:39:47 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: Sean_Anthony

People might laugh at what we in FR call “Crazy Old Uncle Joe”.

But be careful what you wish for if he wins the Democratic nomination.

He polls well against ALL Republican candidates.... better than Hillary.


86 posted on 10/19/2015 3:03:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: CommerceComet; dfwgator
Sitting Vice Presidents traditionally do well in elections. Even Algore almost pulled it off.
I'm not sure that being VP assures much of anything. George H. W. Bush won in 1988 but Nixon lost in 1960, Humphrey in 1968, Mondale in 1984 (as former VP) and Gore in 2000. Johnson won in 1964 and Ford lost in 1976 as former VPs who were elevated to POTUS and ran as incumbents.

IMHO we have plenty to worry about, with Obama possibly packing Ohio with refugees who vote (D). But I don’t think Obama has enoughin

I don’t consider former VP and sitting VP to be the same thing at all. The office of VP is inherently of tenuous value; the VP is the political heir of the POTUS. That is the effect of the 12th Amendment. Since then there have been several VPs who inherited on the death of the POTUS. But men who, after the 12th Amendment, got elected POTUS as sitting VP are thin on the ground. Andrew Jackson saw his sitting VP win election. And so did Ronald Reagan. I think you won’t find another.

According to

Nixon:
A Life
Nixon had five things go wrong which easily could have turned the squeaker 1960 defeat into a victory. One disappointment was that the popular President Eisenhower stayed above the fray rather than putting any of his prestige behind his VP. IMHO that would have been different if someone had told Ike that if Nixon won Ike would be the first POTUS since Andrew Jackson - whose picture is on the $20 bill - to see his sitting VP become POTUS.

I’d say, worry about ballot stuffing by immigrants in Ohio, and elsewhere, before you worry about Obama’s sitting VP having a tailwind from people wanting a third Obama term.


87 posted on 10/19/2015 6:13:40 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: dfwgator
Sitting Vice Presidents traditionally do well in elections.

When Bush 41 was elected, he remarked that it had been a long time since the last sitting VP, Martin Van Buren, had been elected president [in 1836].

88 posted on 10/19/2015 6:28:45 PM PDT by matt1234 (Note to GOPe lurkers: I and thousands like me will NEVER vote for Jeb Bush)
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To: matt1234

I guess I stand corrected, I always thought they usually won.


89 posted on 10/19/2015 6:29:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
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