Posted on 05/10/2014 7:58:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Forget Elizabeth Warren. What the Democratic Party, and the nation, need is a real debate between Hillary Clinton's interventionism and the vice president's restraint.
Joe Biden’s prospective presidential candidacy is in danger of becoming a joke. Every week, some new Democratic bigwig pledges himself to Hillary Clinton. Pro-Hillary groups have already assembled to fend off hostile campaign press. At last weekend’s White House Correspondents Dinner, President Obama added to the air of inevitability by teasing Fox News, “You’ll miss me when I’m gone. It’ll be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya.”
If there’s any suspense left about the Democratic primary in 2016, it largely revolves around whether an economic populist will challenge Clinton from the left. The prospect of Elizabeth Warren entering the race tantalizes many liberals. But since Biden’s not an anti-Wall Street crusader, his potential candidacy sparks barely any interest at all. That’s too bad. While a Warren candidacy would spark one valuable debate inside the Democratic Party—about government’s role in the economy—a Biden candidacy would spark another: about America’s role in the world.
Among today’s Democratic foreign-policy elite, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden represent opposite poles. Hillary’s a 1990s-style hawk. Although she and Bill came of age during the movement against Vietnam, they both grew far more comfortable with American military force during his presidency. In her first memoir, Clinton describes having supported America’s interventions in both Bosnia and Kosovo. As first lady, she lobbied for Bill to appoint Balkan hawk Madeleine Albright as his second-term secretary of state.
It was Albright who in 1998 famously called America “the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future.”(continued)
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Joe Insurance Policy for President? This is satire, right?
This is a man with a negative IQ, for goodness sake.
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H. L. Mencken
The hits just keep on coming. Go for it Joe, how much worse can it get?
But, Karl Rove said she sustained brain damage in her fall sometime back that hospitalized her for four days. I loathe Tokyo Rove, but, he could be right. Wait until her erratic behavior goes on non-stop.
Elizabeth Warren was long ago unmasked as a fraud who built an academic and political career on the fantasy or (more likely) lie that she had Native American ancestry.
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And the people of Massachusetts didn’t give a crap. But, that will follow her nationally if she does run. The rest of the nation is NOT like Massachusetts.
I'd like to see John Kerry (who served in Viet Nam) in the mix also. It would be fun to see Kerry and Hillary blasting each other over each other's dismal record as Secretary of State.
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