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Joe Biden needs a vice president who won’t try to steal his job
New York Post ^ | June 19, 2020 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 06/20/2020 7:27:29 AM PDT by karpov

Joe Biden is 112 years old and can barely speak a coherent sentence. So it matters greatly whom he picks to be his running mate. The chances that his veep selection might end up becoming president during his term can’t be discounted.

Democrats have spent the Trump years talking about the virtues of the 25th Amendment. It lays out a process inside the executive branch that would temporarily and, if necessary, permanently replace a living president deemed by his Cabinet to be too infirm to serve as the most powerful man in the world.

It was never going to happen: President Trump’s own aggressiveness, and his deep bond with his voters, made any such notion unthinkable outside the fever swamps of cable news.

Still, there’s no question Democrats and liberals have softened the ground when it comes to the idea of invoking the 25th. Now think of Biden’s position. Except for a few weeks of trouble, he basically coasted into the nomination and is likely to try and coast into the presidency. He hasn’t ­engaged the passions of his party, and there isn’t a Biden “wing” to speak of.

Moreover, let’s face it, he does seem a tad impaired. In one of his recent YouTube ads, he literally speaks these words: “I’m coming to you for ask a quick favor.” For ask a quick favor? If this is the take his people used, can you imagine what the other, rejected takes were like?

So how safe from the 25th would Biden be from a party, a Cabinet and a Democratic Congress thrilled to have beaten Trump but neither afraid nor respectful of Uncle Joe? Would the Democrats who want to foment a cultural revolution not feel tempted to hasten the change by ditching the figurehead through the 25th

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To: karpov

If he’s appointed, he’ll last about a year then he’ll regretfully step down due to health concerns, his black, female VP will become President who will then appoint Michelle Obama as her VP.


21 posted on 06/20/2020 7:41:33 AM PDT by The Louiswu (MAGAaa)
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To: karpov
It's a silly article.

The Dems know Joe is on his last legs and the vice presidential nomination is the de facto presidential candidate.

22 posted on 06/20/2020 7:42:01 AM PDT by Salman (A faction of the ruling class is trying to cancel America.)
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To: karpov

Ha, Demented Joe isn’t in it for the long haul. He will step down at some point. Just vote him in/Trump out, he gets his name in the books/salvages the Obama-Biden record, gets his portrait, and rides off into the sunset.


23 posted on 06/20/2020 7:43:33 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: karpov

Joe needs a VP with good shampoo.


24 posted on 06/20/2020 7:44:09 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: karpov

Someone will have to tell him. Probably numerous times.


25 posted on 06/20/2020 7:45:12 AM PDT by cp124 (If you weak physically or mentally stay home.)
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To: phoneman08
>>The first thing Biden will do is kneel before his black running mate.

Will (s)he have a can of whipped cream ready?


26 posted on 06/20/2020 7:46:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: karpov

We want the Fake Indian!!! Squaw claimed she was ready to move into the big white Wig Wam during the primaries.


27 posted on 06/20/2020 7:47:12 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: karpov

Mostly, he needs a black yankee woman with typical promiscuity, experience in the corrupt governance of a city or state and the American Congress.

Political transference will make the gullible Marxist suckers believe another one of theirs is anointed.


28 posted on 06/20/2020 7:47:25 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: EC Washington

She is white and therefore unacceptable

She must be black or she will not be


29 posted on 06/20/2020 7:48:19 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: 2banana

Jill will help.the campaign pace will pick up and he will have more issues.


30 posted on 06/20/2020 7:48:40 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: karpov
A moot point, actually.

Even if alive, alert, elected, do you think Biden is making any of the decisions?

Say Biden is elected, strokes out and Stacy or Kamala take over. Do you think either of them is in charge?

31 posted on 06/20/2020 7:53:14 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: karpov
No need to worry about that because he WILL NOT WIN the election.

It won't even be close!

32 posted on 06/20/2020 7:55:10 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: karpov

Or take him out through an accident or something.


33 posted on 06/20/2020 7:56:00 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: karpov

He should pick Tyler Perry. Ticks several boxes.


34 posted on 06/20/2020 8:00:44 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: karpov

Assuming sleepy Joe wins, who would want to be VP? Nancy Pelosi would be right behind them, ready to shiv them in the throat.


35 posted on 06/20/2020 8:00:50 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: karpov
There seems to be a lot passion or hate being brewed up and I wonder who is doing the brewing, and to what purpose. Is it the media? Antifa? Soros? BLM? China?

With the upcoming election the democrats coming up with Biden as their candidate and a bunch of third stringers for VP, I have to think that the real movers and shakers have a plan.

My best guess is Michelle will be drafted to the VP slot. With the Obama machine already in place, all the pieces could come together for a new ride for Obama.

36 posted on 06/20/2020 8:04:44 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The government did not create the people. The people created the government)
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To: EC Washington

No we will get the real dot Indian, Heels Up Kamila. Count on the floodgates from India being open. #MakeAmericaIntoIndia


37 posted on 06/20/2020 8:10:54 AM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: karpov

Joe Biden and his vice president would be only a front for who is pulling the strings a wizard of Oz deal aka made felons.


38 posted on 06/20/2020 8:16:48 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: lgjhn23

The DNC wants the candidate that will trigger the sh*t for brains. We know the voting blocs.


39 posted on 06/20/2020 8:17:12 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: karpov

Lately I keep thinking it’s going to be Oprah. Black charismatic loved by many Democrats


40 posted on 06/20/2020 8:26:16 AM PDT by tinamina
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