I believe Bernie truly wants good for this country and everyone in it. With that said, I don't think he is the right person to put that into place. I don't think he is the right person to put at the head of not only this country, but the western world. I don't think is the person to essentially make the most powerful person in the world. That person, my loves, is Hillary Rodham Clinton. I think he's presenting to people this idea that he'll become President, snap his fingers, and we'll be living in candyland.
...But Hillary has a better Congressional record and her bills were more readily cosponsored by Republicans than Bernie's were. Soooo if we're talking about working with Congress, then yes, Hillary is a better choice.
Hillary did so well during her town hall. Her answers had specifics and she passionately delivered. There is no other person I would rather see be president, and I am 100% sure she is the most capable leader.
Since Joe Biden has been weighing a run for president, members of the press have repeatedly praised him for his "authenticity." This has largely been in contrast to Hillary Clinton, who is frequently pilloried by the media as secretive and calculating, and has its members yearning for a more natural candidate. "With Joe Biden, what you see is what you get," Mike Barnicle wrote for the Daily Beast.
Even the anecdotes about Biden's political calculations have portrayed him as a conflicted, grieving father. On August 1, New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd narrated a heart-wrenching private moment that occurred among the Biden family. Dowd wrote that the vice president's dying son Beau, his face "partially paralyzed," sat down with his "anguished" father and urged him to run for president — "arguing that the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with Biden values."
Dowd's column was extremely vague about how she got this information, but it kick-started the buzz that Biden might really be serious about a 2016 campaign, which is still going strong this week.
WE SHOULD BE HIGHLY SKEPTICAL OF THE WAY "AUTHENTICITY" IS COMMONLY TREATED BY THE POLITICAL MEDIA
Now it turns out that her source — according to a report by Politico's Edward-Isaac Dovere today — was Joe Biden himself.
But the revelation is a reminder that we should be highly skeptical of the way "authenticity" is commonly treated by the political media. Because if it got out that a politician deemed to be less of a straight talker — like Hillary Clinton — did something like what Biden just did, she'd be ripped to shreds.
By every account of those surrounding Biden, Beau is constantly on his father’s mind. But so are Clinton’s poll numbers — and his own, as the vice president notes in private details, such as the crosstab data that show him drawing more support from Clinton than Bernie Sanders. So is the prospect of what it would mean to run against a candidate who would make history as the first female nominee, and potentially first female president. So is knowing that the filing deadlines are quickly closing in and that he almost certainly has to decide in roughly the next week to make even a seat-of-the-pants campaign possible.
“Calculation sort of sounds crass, but I guess that’s what it is,” said one person who’s recently spoken to Biden about the prospect of running. “The head is further down the road than the heart is.”
And that’s how it’s been for a while.
At the end of August, while friends were still worrying aloud that he was in the worst mental state possible to be making this decision, he invited Elizabeth Warren for an unannounced Saturday lunch at the Naval Observatory. According to sources connected with Warren, he raised Clinton’s scheduled appearance at the House Benghazi Committee hearing at the end of October, even hinting that there might be a running-mate opening for the Massachusetts senator.
Biden and Warren were alone that afternoon, and those around them have been particularly secretive about the meeting. Warren’s spokesperson didn’t return requests for comment.
Hillary did so well during her town hall. Her answers had specifics and she passionately delivered. There is no other person I would rather see be president, and I am 100% sure she is the most capable leader.
Biden would beat Hillary so so badly. If he runs (which he is) he's gonna win. Everyone loves him and Obama's gonna back him.
HC is spoiled milk anyway. And poor Sanders.
Do we have any idea who she might announce as her VP?
