Posted on 11/05/2013 1:39:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Anyone waiting expectantly for Vice President Biden to name check President Obama at an election eve rally Monday went away disappointed.
Besides singing the praises of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe at the Northern Virginia event, Biden mentioned Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner (favorably) and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (unfavorably). He singled out McAuliffe's Republican opponent, Ken Cuccinelli, by name. Biden even referred to his own wife and his father.
But there was no mention of the president. Nor any mention of health care, aside from a reference to Cuccinelli's participation, as Virginia attorney general, in conservative efforts to restrict women's health care (read abortion rights) in the state. It was noticed.
Biden's omission signaled how the Affordable Care Act's recent troubles have turned the president's signature domestic legislation from an asset to a liability, if not in solidly blue places like Massachusetts then in purple states like Virginia.
At a rally in Virginia a day before Biden's appearance, Obama didn't mention Obamacare, either. He did mention Biden, however.
The vice president's omission may have also signaled something else. In their new book about last year's presidential campaign, Double Down: Game Change 2012, due out Tuesday, journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann reported that Obama campaign aides considered dropping Biden from the ticket in favor of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Veteran Obama political strategists like David Axelrod and David Plouffe have denied Biden was ever at risk of being jettisoned.
It's possible to read too much into such moments, of course. But sometimes a politician says more by what he doesn't say than by what he does.
well, sadly, I reckon McCauliffe is going to be elected guy tonight, and Hillary is one step closer to the White House.
would love it if that turns out to be wildly wrong, but, that’s what my tea leaves say.
Hopefully Cruz can stop her when the time comes.....first he has to defeat dough boy, though.
Can anybody point to any accomplishment of Hillary Clinton in life, which makes her greatly qualified to be president?
I know in 2008 she said she had 35 years of experience making change and all that. And she was there to take the 3 a.m. crisis phone call because of her alleged immense qualifications for the job. But what has she really accomplished?
She is infinitely more qualified than the current occupier of the Spite House.
The truth of that statement actually turns my stomach!
Yeah. Sad ain’t it?
That’s because Obama is not running for anything...he’s just running!
she’s a lifelong liberal?
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