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-Election 2012
Team Obama confident Biden can take on Ryan
2012-08-15
[The Hill] The Obama campaign said Tuesday it is confident Vice President Biden will be an effective foil against GOP vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan
...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President B.O.'s 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies...
 despite his latest gaffe.

Biden on Tuesday made headlines when he told a crowd here that the GOP ticket's policies would put "y'all back in chains." The remark was about Wall Street regulations, but the Romney campaign seized on the imagery of slavery to say Biden and Obama had hit a new low.

The unscripted comments highlighted Biden's propensity for off-the-cuff statements --which at times have caused the White House embarrassment. But Biden aides say the occasional slip-ups are far outweighed by the positives that the vice president brings to the table.

"Vice President Biden has been the president's partner and top surrogate on the campaign trail and no one is fighting harder to ensure the president is reelected in November," a campaign official said. "He continues to travel across the country making the case for what's truly at stake in this election and why President B.O. is the right choice for middle class workers and their families."
Posted by:Fred

#19  With Joe the Dems will secure the clown vote!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2012-08-15 19:03  

#18  I think the question should rather be: Are her chances better after an Obama presidency if she's the VP or if she's not.

Vince Foster could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-08-15 17:22  

#17  @Mullah Richard

Biden could still have a "heart attack" after that countdown, bringing back an oh so reluctant Hillary sacrificing herself.

Hillary can live with Biden being VP, but NOT with any other VP who would challenge her in 4 years.
Posted by: European Conservative   2012-08-15 15:46  

#16  "Is it really in Hillary!s best interest to accept such a position? Would her chances of becoming president be better after an Obama or Romney presidency?"

I think the question should rather be: Are her chances better after an Obama presidency if she's the VP or if she's not.

If Obama wins it and she's not VP, she'll face fresh challengers. As a VP she'd be seen as the "natural" successor. She will use her 4 years to appear "presidential", but not be responsible for Obama's failures.

If Obama totally screws up in the first two years, she can still check out and present herself as the better alternative.

I don't buy into "Hillary is tired and has given up her ambitions".
Posted by: European Conservative   2012-08-15 15:42  

#15  If Biden were to be replaced it would naturally be a health issue. That's the only way to avoid saying he was a mistake in the first place. Still, its too late for that now. It would reek of desperation. Better to brass it out and hope that he provides some kind of gravitas to the ticket in some folks minds.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-08-15 14:54  

#14  Biden has hoof-in-mouth disease

Maybe. Or maybe he cultivates that as a cover for saying what his sponsor Pelosi and he want said, with impunity.

Remember, for instance, the gay marriage comment, pushing Obama into a public stance that Pelosi wanted and Obama wanted to straddle.
Posted by: lotp   2012-08-15 14:31  

#13  I agree with EC that it is not too late to purposefully gaffe Biden into retirement and go to the bullpin. It does open a few questions so late in the campaign, as opposed to being in front of the Republican choices:

Benching Joe the Ice Cream Biden after a serious of follies may open the case against any policy Biden has been in support of.

Is it really in Hillary!s best interest to accept such a position? Would her chances of becoming president be better after an Obama or Romney presidency?

In order to make the transition, they will find a medical reason; that is if they can find a suitable replacement - no pun, Hillary! has been set up for failure after failure by Team O for five years now, what's she gonna do go be veep while O and Mr. Bill back pat each other during occasionals.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-08-15 14:10  

#12  Pay no attention to that woman behind the curtain
Posted by: European Conservative   2012-08-15 13:28  

#11  There's always this countdown.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2012-08-15 13:20  

#10  #GuessBidensNextGaffe

Promises Virginia voters Obama will tear down that wall and re-unify with West Virginia

During discussion on Palestinian question, says heÂ’d be willing to open an account in the West Bank
Posted by: Beavis   2012-08-15 12:19  

#9  Imitating the sign language lady, unclear on which state he's in? That isn't dumb. That's dementia. Ogabe is just using a declining old man. Sad.
Posted by: RandomJD   2012-08-15 10:33  

#8  If it makes you feel better JohnQC, kansas morning peacock news called Uncle Joey a gaffer - a show which has those crummy cnn humor hit pieces as their morning ha ha segment for what its worth.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-08-15 09:32  

#7  The communists dems have already indicated the VP debate will center on 'Foreign Policy'. An obvious damage control tactic.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-08-15 09:22  

#6  JohnQC, your statement assumes that Biden HAS a brain. Personally I doubt it.

A debate between Joey AllNuts and Paul Ryan will be about as fair as a fight between Mike Tyson and Woody Allen (both in their prime).
Posted by: AlanC   2012-08-15 09:20  

#5  Â“HeÂ’d be tearing his hair out, if he didnÂ’t have to be so careful of the follicles,” said one Democratic professional, speaking under condition of anonymity similar to that given GOP professionals who spoke earlier about Ryan in a Politico article by Alexander Burns, Maggie Haberman, and Jonathan Martin. Biden is known for having had hair transplants while Ryan has a full head of his own.

“They’re sending Joe to secret anger management training. He’s been going berserk because he’s worried people think Ryan is more intelligent than he is,” said another Democrat, again speaking under anonymity and reminding PJ Media of Biden’s unimpressive college record where he ranked 506th of in a class of 688. The vice president has acknowledged plagiarizing while in law school, though he says it was “inadvertent.”

Consideration was being given, the Democrat added, to Biden’s having a “family emergency” in Argentina at the time of his scheduled debate with Ryan.
Posted by: Beavis   2012-08-15 08:54  

#4  I'm sure they are when the moderator/ref is in their court. As they say, 'the fix is in'. Then again, the stupid ass campaign manager who agreed to any debates which have always been orchestrated by the the apparatchiks of the Left is without question working for the other side at worst or at best an unqualified old school RINO still living in the 1970s.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-08-15 08:46  

#3  Vice President Biden will be an effective foil against GOP vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan

Biden has hoof-in-mouth disease. Somehow his brain disengages before his mouth works. Guiliani said that Biden hasn't ever been bright enough to be President.

I was just looking as Facebook this a.m. Judging from the comments there are quite a few liberal young people (18-30) who still buy the whole Obama Team schtick of hope, change, lies and damned lies--they are still believing the B.S. If they vote, there is little doubt for whom they will vote. It was depressing to see the gullibility of this group of otherwise nice young people. Must be the Kool Aid.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-08-15 08:42  

#2  Watch Joe have a Kevin Kline 'Dave' moment at the podium.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2012-08-15 08:42  

#1  Methinks its safe to say that NOVEMBER 2012 ELECTIONS = "ELECTING A VEEP/VPOTUS" AFTER ALL???

Although certain MSM-Net Pundits believe that Romney's pro-Iran War stance is contrary to Ryan's economics-based domestic focii, IMO IT INFERS THAT THE US = A POTUS MITTENS? IS ANTICIPATING US, GLOBAL ECON MORASS IN PARALLEL WID US-LED WAR AGZ IRAN ANDOR US TROOPS [US-NATO] BEING SENT TO FIGHT IN AFRICA. POTUS Bammer bought the troops home from AFPAK so that a POTUS Romney could send 'em out again.

The US is the "tip-of-the spear" in setting up OWG-NWO = [proto]SPACE GOVT-ORDER, + ITS N-O-T DONE OR COMLETED YET.

* FYI TOPIX > [Money Morning] ECONOMIST RICHARD DUNCAN: [Human = world]CIVILIZATION MAY NOT SURVIVE [US-led economic] "DEATH SPIRAL", vee its brand-new, US$16.0Trilyuhn-N-likely-to-keep rising Debt.

ADVANTAGE = RADICAL ISLAM, beit due to SOLAR WARMING [GWCC], or STATE SELF-IMPLOSION DUE TO EXCESSIVE GOVT-PUBLIC SPENDING.

As said or inferred before, iff Perts are correct about the intensification of SOLAR ACTIVITIES = GWCC, DON'T BE SO QUICK TO CRITICIZE THE MUSLIM BURQUA, OR GET RID OF YOUR MOM'S OR GRANDMA'S OLD, "ANTIQUE/QUAINT" HEAD SCARVES BECAUSE YOUSE + DESCENDANTS WILL BE WEARING THEM SOON ENUFF FOR YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE + SURVIVAL.

[PETER O'TOOLE = 1962's "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA" Movie here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-08-15 01:29  

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