Posted on 05/01/2017 9:40:15 AM PDT by ColdOne
Speaking at an annual Democratic Party dinner in New Hampshire on Sunday evening, former Vice President Joe Biden drew a groan from the crowd when he addressed the elephant in the room.
Addressing a crowd in Manchester, Biden said that though his visit “caused a lot of speculation — guys I’m not running!"
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Maybe John Dickerson can interview him and Chelsea and beg.
So Biden doesn’t “have the runs” any longer?
I was unaware of the ground swell of cries for him to run . Same with Chelsea.
Dan Quayle with plugs.
He’s 74. He’s done.
Biden: ‘Guys, I’m not running’
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Good. Then you and Chelsea sit down and STFU.
And take that Squaw with you.
..... He's just saying that as a ploy to throw the Republicans off .... he knows the ditsy useless dysfunctional GOP will fall for every basic trick and ploy in the political book.
Dems are desperate for a national level candidate and don’t have one.
All their “name recognition” people are ancient and their base is very young and whiny. They need a new “Jimmy Who?”. Clinton hit the national stage by droning on and on at the ‘88 convention I think it was. Obama did something similar in 2004. Can you remember anyone like that at the last Dem convention?
one of the problems the dems have is the Clintons have spent the last 20 years purging and trying to control anyone that could end up being a leader within there party. this has made it so there is a big competency gap with in the party when it comes to running for leadership positions. the party is now in a death spiral and in twenty years will still be here but have the same sort of political power the libertarian party has. able to get some dems into local political office on the state level and only able to win senate and house seats on the federal level in states like California, new York.
IIRC, Hillary wasn't running either time, until the groundswell of public citizens convinced her they wanted her to represent them. She couldn't let them down, so she made that great personal sacrifice so they'd have a voice in DC.
Don't know if Joe will run or not, but to admit he wants it - that's a mistake and he knows it
You can’t run, Biden. You’re an old, evil white guy.
“You can’t run, Biden. You’re an old, evil white guy.”
And a plagiarist, whose plagiarism took him out of the running almost 30 years ago.
Since he would garner so few votes anyway....why bother?
You are correct about the corrosive influence the Clintons have had on the DNC. No doubt. However, you are wrong about their demise. In the past century each party has been pronounced dead every other election cycle. It is simply the way things are.
Obama represented a new face for the DNC, yet the responsibility either seems not to interest him or he is simply not the person for the job. A young minority candidate who spoke in hopeful platitudes with energy and enthusiasm is not the man we see now. As their standard bearer he shoulders as much (or more) responsibility as the Clintons. It may not even matter as he seems incapable of reconnecting with the “magic” that he rode to the Presidency or transferring that to anyone else.
The left still has plenty of adherents and money. What they lack is leadership. Politics like nature abhors a vacuum and it is certain that younger faces will emerge within a cycle or two. Don’t write them off - if American history teaches us anything it is that “the pendulum will swing back.”
“...guys, I’m not running!”
(Not TODAY, anyway; tomorrow is another matter.)
The hell he's not running. Watch him grope the superdelegates for the next two years...
No worries, speculation is Zuckerberg will be the next Obama for Dem’s.
Dang.
“Dan Quayle with plugs.”
Shame, shame, what has Dan Quayle ever done to deserve such treatment? Biden would need a crane to lift him high enough to kiss Quayle’s boot.
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