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Joe Biden in 2016: What Would Beau Do?
NY Times ^ | 8/1/15 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 08/01/2015 9:48:59 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

A PATTERN of cutting corners, a patina of entitlement and inevitability, has led to this.

Destroying digital messages and thwarting official investigations while acting all innocent about wiping out sensitive material.

Avoiding reporters after giving disingenuous explanations at uncomfortable news conferences. Claiming egregious transgressions are a private matter and faux controversy while sending out high-power lawyers and spin doctors to deflect and minimize.

Two controlling superstars with mutable hair and militant fans, married to two magnetic superstars who can make a gazillion an hour for flashing their faces and who have been known to stir up trouble.

A pair of team captains craving a championship doing something surreptitious that they never needed to do to win.

It turns out Tom Brady and Hillary Clinton have more in common than you would think.

Brady had his assistant terminate his Samsung phone the day before he talked to an investigator about Deflategate. Hillary set up a home-brew private server, overruling the concerns of her husband’s aides, and erased 30,000 emails before the government had a chance to review them to see if any were classified.

Brady and Hillary, wanting to win at all costs and believing the rules don’t apply to them, are willing to take the hit of people not believing them, calculating that there is no absolute proof.

They both have a history of subterfuge — Brady and the Patriots with Spygate, Hillary with all her disappearing and appearing records.

Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, is out there rabidly defending Brady. The crafty Hillary has her own rabid defender in David Brock. Kraft and Brock both have a financial interest, of course, in bleaching the images of their quarterbacks. Hillary and Brady have billion-dollar operations, and their sketchy value systems force people around them into seamy Faustian bargains.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden2016

1 posted on 08/01/2015 9:48:59 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

I hope Maureen knows more about politics than she does about football. I wonder...


2 posted on 08/01/2015 9:50:21 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Second Amendment First

Personally, I’d like to see Rimshot Joe’s wife or aunt run.


3 posted on 08/01/2015 9:51:25 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop the DemocRATS' War On Babies! Vote conservative.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Forget Joe Biden. It’s going to be Lie-a-watha. Count on it.


4 posted on 08/01/2015 9:53:18 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Second Amendment First

Beau was the only good Biden.

Remember, Joe is part and parcel of this anti-American regime, all the way.

He is so far above his level of incompetence now, the Peter Principle will have to be rewritten.


5 posted on 08/01/2015 9:54:36 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Second Amendment First

several comments and nobody says, “wow thats the Times!”
Proving we’re seen enough to know they want ABH, anyone but Hillary.


6 posted on 08/01/2015 10:00:43 AM PDT by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: Second Amendment First

This was one of those articles that made me feel unclean after I read it. Major barf alert !!


7 posted on 08/01/2015 10:28:31 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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8 posted on 08/01/2015 10:30:12 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Second Amendment First

Hannity was saying Ol’ Joe has gone skinny dipping in front of the female secret service agents, I don’t know where he got that but that is funky.


9 posted on 08/01/2015 11:47:35 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: Snickering Hound

THANK YOU for remembering the rules


10 posted on 08/01/2015 12:04:27 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Second Amendment First

“What would Beau Do?”

He’d vote Democrat.

Because he’s like, you know, dead.


11 posted on 08/01/2015 12:06:23 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Old Sarge

“Because he’s like, you know, dead.”

RIP Beau Biden, but that’s funny right there.


12 posted on 08/01/2015 1:51:48 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: exit82

Beau wasn’t good. RIP but I’m glad he’ll never be Governor or Senator.


13 posted on 08/01/2015 6:01:28 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: GOPsterinMA
It turns out Tom Brady and Hillary Clinton have more in common than you would think.

Stupid comparison. Smegma.

14 posted on 08/01/2015 6:03:55 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

Well Brady’s a Republican and a winner. Whatever.

I was listening to a national sports radio yesterday yesterday and the host asked listeners to call in an explain why they hate the Patriots.

Most of the mouthbreathers (there’s a lot of them in this country) that I heard (it’s tiring listening to f’n morons, especially when they try to sound like they have a clue) essentially admitted that they were jealous of their success.


15 posted on 08/02/2015 5:39:03 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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