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Home Front: Politix
Obama: 'Biden Will Go Down In History As One Of The Best Vice Presidents Ever'
2013-12-07
[WASHINGTON.CBSLOCAL] President Barack Obama has high praise for potential 2016 contenders Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"I think Joe Biden will go down in history as one of the best vice presidents ever, and he has been with me, at my side, in every tough decision that I've made," Obama told MSNBC in an interview Thursday held at American University. "Hillary, I think, will go down in history as one of the finest secretaries of state we've ever had, and helped to transition us away from a deep hole that we were in, when I first came into office, around the world, and rebuilt confidence and trust in the United States."
Posted by:Fred

#14  Nah, Rambler; Slow Joe would clearly be an improvement.
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-12-07 20:38  

#13  ...set heading to alternate universe...engage...
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2013-12-07 17:06  

#12  I think Obama picked Biden as a life insurance policy.

I can see the conspirators saying "Hey, let's knock off Obama". Other conspirator: "Yeah, but if we do, we end up with Biden as president". First conspirator: "You're right. Forget it. Let's go golfing instead".

Attention Secret Service/NSA: The above is a joke. I am in no way advocating or planning any kind of assassination or violence against the president or any other official.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2013-12-07 16:42  

#11  "Joe, just sit in the corner and shut up and you will go down in history as one of the best VPs in ever."
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-12-07 15:42  

#10  One of the most expensive, anyways.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-12-07 14:45  

#9  An interesting take Besoeker, rings true.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-12-07 14:37  

#8  Says who? Obunmbles? We know he LIES. (And lies, and lies, and Lies, He has no shame, and he thinks it doesn't matter, Cause he's God, bullshit.)

Further, He thinks "I don't lie.", which is a lie itself.

I don't listen, that burns him.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-12-07 13:30  

#7  This missed irony (missed by all but Mandela himself), prison rehabilitation can actually work. Being confined on a rather isolated albeit safe island, actually permitted him to study, reflect, and survive the violence of the revolution. I wonder how many of Mandela's colleagues lived to be 95, surrounded by adoring family and media at death ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-12-07 11:47  

#6  If history started yesterday joe would still not be consider the best.

Future joke: what does Obama and Mandela have in common? The both are communists who spent 27 years in jail.
Posted by: Airandee   2013-12-07 11:23  

#5  I should not have been, but I was amazed at how adeptly he managed to insert a portion of his own Horatio Alger story into his brief, televised eulogy to kameraad Mandela. This fellow's narcissism absolutely knows no bounds.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-12-07 10:18  

#4  Yes, praising the dunce not only makes the dunce feel good, it lowers an already very low bar.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-12-07 10:08  

#3  Yes, this about himself. Had he picked someone who was bright, ambitious, and capable, you don't think there would be elements within his own party right now thinking about the process of putting the alternative into the White House to save their collective pathetic butts? Even posters here at the Rant have mentioned how bad Biden would be as an alternative. So in the chess game of power, from the Champs view that makes the man one of the best vice presidents ever.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-12-07 10:05  

#2  Obama: 'Biden Will Go Down In History As One Of The Best Vice Presidents Ever'

Quite honestly, I don't believe the Champ is qualified to make such an assessment. In fact, I am certain he is not. He's simply issuing an unsolicited heaping of praise, in the hopes that some of might somehow fall on him. After all, everything is about him.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-12-07 04:01  

#1  You know the 1 is a lair... does this qualify as "faint praise" ?


Posted by: Au Auric   2013-12-07 00:30  

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