News: Hillary Clinton has a problem....Joe Biden

RihsusChrist(ATG)

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/wheth...976220476.html

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I’ll say this: Whether or not Biden ultimately runs, the mere specter of him jumping into the race brings into sharp relief a serious crack in Hillary Clinton’s unsinkable ocean liner of a campaign. And no one standing on deck seems to know what to do about it.

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Clinton has challengers, of course — most notably, at the moment, Bernie Sanders. But that’s a straight-up ideological fight of the kind any Democratic frontrunner should welcome. If history holds (and I’m pretty sure it will), Sanders’s brand of leftist populism has a modest ceiling in a Democratic primary contest, and he’s not far from hitting it.

But a contest between Clinton and Biden would offer a different kind of contrast, and one that would test what seems to be Clinton’s operative theory of the moment.

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Biden’s appeal would be mostly hands-on and personal, as it always has been. Sure, he’s been a fine vice president and was a pretty big deal in the Senate before that. But no one’s going to mistake Biden for a policy innovator.

What Biden is, even to those who dismiss him as slightly doddering and in over his head, is as real and authentic as they come. The toll of tragedies etched into his face, the well of emotion he keeps so close to the surface, the once celebrated hair plugs — all of it makes him unusually and compellingly human.

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With Biden, you get the politically incorrect verbal lapses, the “Veep”-like comedic value. But you also get warmth and authenticity and a handshake that means something.

Clinton’s pitch is pretty much the polar opposite. If there was any doubt about that, it was dispelled when Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s senior communications aide, told my Yahoo colleague Michael Isikoff this week that honesty and trustworthiness were, in Isikoff’s words, “beside the point.”

There followed this pretty remarkable quote from Palmieri: “That’s not the question voters have in their heads when they decide who to vote for. It’s who is fighting for me, and who has the solutions for the American people. She’s still the person who is most likely to be the next president.”

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Hillary’s trust issues...are grounded in substance. You can say that Benghazi or the email servers are manufactured scandals, but it’s not like that 55 percent of voters who don’t believe what she says are talking about her skills as a grandmother.

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Democrats may be willing to believe a lot of things about Biden, but that he won’t fight for the working class surely isn’t one of them.

If VP Biden were to enter the Presidential race...would any Hillary supporters on here jump ship, and go with Joe?

Chucko

If Joe enters, I see no reason why Warren would stay on the sidelines.

BeBeMint

Is our generation even that preoccupied with politics? I think the last 20 years have shown that whoever the President is, things always seem to take a worse course

Voting is kind of a fools game at this point.

foxaylove

No, I'm still firm in my support of HRC, but I view Joe entering the race as a good thing. She needs to be pushed and challenged in the Democratic Party Primaries, because that is the warm-up to the ultimate show, the Presidential Campaign trail. Joe is a great debater with an excellent following. So he'll push Hillary and that's just what she needs. The more, the merrier.

Melquiades

lol Joe? Sanders is already putting fire on ha ass. If Joe enters the race he wil take voters from Hillary, making it even easier for Sanders to win.

RihsusChrist(ATG)

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Originally posted by BeBeMint

Is our generation even that preoccupied with politics? I think the last 20 years have shown that whoever the President is, things always seem to take a worse course

Voting is kind of a fools game at this point.

They should be...I think it is dangerous not to be will informed about the political process, and who is in charge of making decisions on your behalf.

A lot of good people have died for that right.

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Originally posted by Melquiades

lol Joe? Sanders is already putting fire on ha ass. If Joe enters the race he wil take voters from Hillary, making it even easier for Sanders to win.

Sanders has reached his peak...he has all the far left support he can possibly get. As for Joe...he will put fire under Hillary's ass to be more warm and affectionate (which I don't think she is capable of that, imo). If Joe enters and can connect with voters; he might very well do an "Obama" and snatch the nomination from Hillary...2008 all over again.