Posted on 10/13/2012 8:04:41 AM PDT by drewh
While Biden showed distracting, Gore-like flashes of irritability toward Ryan, he filled in blanks that Obama had left unspoken in his own debate with Mitt Romney, and he brought the discussion back to the Democrats’ standard defense of the middle class. In so doing, he provided a tonic his party needed after the president’s flat performance.
Although Obama and Biden were not close in the four years they overlapped in the Senate, according to Obama strategists David Axelrod and David Plouffe, their candidate was impressed with Biden in the 2008 Democratic primaries. After he delivered uncommonly pithy answers in debates, other contenders onstage would begin their responses with variations of “Joe is right.” And in a South Carolina debate, when asked whether he could control his wagging tongue, Biden’s straight-faced, one-word answer — “Yes” — brought the house down.
While he may have caused the Obama team some anxiety in the general-election campaign with his freewheeling style, the running mates meshed quickly. Early on, Obama publicly called Biden the best vice president to date and told him he wanted him on the ticket again in 2012.
Before becoming vice president, Joe Biden declared his intention to “restore the balance” between his office and that of the president. In his view, Dick Cheney had essentially created a separate power base, nearly independent of the Oval Office. Biden’s vice presidency was going to restrain those impulses. He would integrate his role and staff more smoothly and fully with the White House, more in the style of Walter Mondale during Jimmy Carter’s presidency and, to a degree, Al Gore in the Clinton years.
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Nope, sorry, in 2016 it will either be a 2nd term for Romney or Ryan 2016.
Little green men could also land in your front lawn but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Nope, sorry, in 2016 it will either be a 2nd term for Romney or Ryan 2016.
Hopefully we will have a First term Conservative and a loss for Romney’s first term. We will put up with Romney for one term, but two????? Good God you guys are nuts.
As the Dem/Socialist Party candidate, that would be great - guarantee a Republican/Tea Party win in 2016. Biden could be the Looney Tunes Democratic/Socialist Poster Boy.
Its possible but so is an asteroid strike. Both would be a disaster.
The WaPo writer says: “he (Biden) brought the discussion back to the Democrats’ standard defense of the middle class. In so doing, he provided a tonic his party needed after the president’s flat performance.”
Very recently Biden said the “middle class has been buried the last four years.”
So the middle class has been buried. . . Biden admits it. . . but somehow this translates into a positive campaign message for the Dems.
The libs live in fantasyland.
LLS
Doesn’t it give you comfort that, even today, Biden is only a heartbeat away from the US nuclear codes???
Considering what we have been through the passed 4 years anything is better.
Robert Bork and Jay Sekulow are advising Romney on Supreme Court picks and it has the left frantic and terrified.
As the rabbi says, “he should live so long!”
Please, Joe Biden is so 1988 (although I miss the 1980’s but I digress) and he copied Neal Kinnock’s commercials from the UK and adapted them to his own. I doubt he’s 2016 materials no matter if Romney wins or the annoited one steals the election. He has the IQ of a house plant and I feel funny typing that because I feel I’m being insulting to the house plant.
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