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  1. What does he bring to the plate . . . ?

    I’m gonna go with botox. That’s about it.

  2. If there was some responsible control within the Democratic party they would have picked one of the women, probably not Warren, maybe Harris and told the rest of the crowd to settle down and then polish that witch from every angle taking all the rough nutty crap away and make her the only obvious choice for responsible leadership in the USA and then let Trump bash the hell out her and they might have had a chance. With all the rush to the left I am thinking Trump will have to step on his dangling participle in a real big way in order to lose, which might just happen.

    As for Biden, he is just the oldest and appearing much older every time they dress him up and take him out, were he one of the seven dwarfs he would be ‘Sleepy’, in the running with Sleazy, Greasy, etc. and they need a clean up on aisle 7.

  3. Biden brings corruption to the plate.

    #JoeChina
    His son, Hunter, accompanies him on VP trip to China and comes away with $1.5 Billion contract.

    Biden has a Ukraine DA fired because he was investigating Biden’s son and threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until it is done. There were millions of $ from Ukraine to Hunter as well.

    And remember that Biden said that China was no threat to he US.

  4. You mean China Joe?

    When is someone going to ask China Joe what he knew about the illegal government spying on the Trump campaign and when did he know it?

    I’d ask China Joe that question if he ever bothers to take questions from us flyover people. Maybe the Press could ask him that question. People want to know!

  5. Just the other day China Joe said the Texas shooting was in Houston and he thought Dayton was in Michigan.

    I’d short Biden right now if he was a stock. He’s finished.

  6. China Joe. China Grove. Doobie Brothers. Get it?

    Trump will use China Joe if Biden makes it to the general.

  7. The candidate will probably be Harris, who has big money CA behind her, or Warren who is almost as Socialist as Bernie.

    It will make an interesting election. I can’t think of one with the issues more clearly drawn since 1860.

    2008 was 1932 all over again. Coolidge saw the 1929 crash coming and got his family out of stocks. He felt that only the Governor of New York had the power to rein in the Stock Market and that, of course, was Roosevelt. In 2008, McCain was clueless ands Obama was the same but smart enough to keep his mouth shut.

  8. I almost feel sorry for Uncle Joe. He is out gunned and has long been one can white, oldshort of a six pack. His lead in the polls puzzles me. He’s white, old, and about as excit

  9. Oops…as exciting as the uncle who falls asleep before the Thanksgiving Day football game.

  10. A Biden/Harris ticket. Then the day after he is sworn in as President, he eats a bowl of cherries and dies, mysteriously. Thus the first Black Woman President.

  11. No, parker, I don’t feel sorry for Uncle Joe. He was not too many miles from me in 2012 when he claimed that Romney and Ryan (!!) wanted to put blacks back in chains. And in the Senate he helped birth the new vicious confirmation battle approach. He and Ted Kennedy were just plain bad for the USA.

  12. China Joe may well be the most corrupt politician in D.C.

    The only principle the man has is “better my pocket than yours”.

    We are witness to Jefferson and Washington’s polar opposite.

  13. Then the day after (Biden) is sworn in as President, he eats a bowl of cherries and dies, mysteriously.

    And they will blame it on President Trump.

  14. And in return Barry Soetoro owes everything to Joe.
    Biden after all is Barry’s Anubis, the last one guarding his name and legacy.

  15. Back in 1988 Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) teamed up to do a mockumentary miniseries titled “Tanner ’88,” in which Michael Murphy played a presidential candidate, Jack Tanner, running in the Democratic primaries.

    What’s apropos is that even back then — thirty years ago — Biden was something of a joke.

    Here’s Tanner speaking to his discouraged team in the first episode. TJ is his campaign manager (played by the marvelous Pamela Reed) and Lexy is his daughter (Cynthia Nixon in maybe her debut):

    You know, TJ, just before you called me last spring Lexy and I went down to the Democratic Leadership conference in South Carolina. The last night we were sitting around Kirk O’Donnell and Hart, Biden … a couple of the other candidates were shooting the breeze about how much the party had changed since the sixties. And suddenly out of the blue Lexy turned and asked Hart who his favorite Beatle was.

    At first Hart just laughed and stumbled around, trying to remember a name. Then she repeated her question for Biden and Biden said, well, he’d never been a Beatles fan, he was into jazz. And Dukakis answered Paul, ’cause he liked his wife or something.

    Now I don’t know if Lexy knows the names of all the Beatles herself, let alone the answer to her own question, but it suddenly dawned on me that I sure as hell did. And I knew for sure that anybody who didn’t, had absolutely no claim to generational leadership.

    Now I must have ten years on Joe Biden but damn it, he wasn’t paying attention back then and I was.

  16. Tanner continues in an impromptu passionate speech to his troops:
    ____________________________________________________

    and one of the things I figured out very early on
    is that the singer mattered as much as the song
    that ideas were only as valuable as the people who got behind them

    I mean people that wouldn’t settle
    people unafraid of honest inquiry
    people who didn’t mind asking the impertinent question

    God…the impertinent question
    where the hell would we be without it?
    it’s the glory and the engine of all human experience

    Copernicus asked it — shook the foundations of his world
    Darwin asked it — he is repudiated to this day
    Thomas Jefferson asked it — so invigorated by it he declared it to be an inalienable right

    I’m not smart enough to know all the answers
    but I do know
    we’ve got to keep asking the questions

    that’s what the American experiment is all about
    it’s at the very core of our character as a people
    we owe our vigor to its constant renewal

    you know I don’t have much patience for these guys who go around
    saying the pride is back in America
    for some of us it never left

    Vietnam may have covered some patriots in shame but not this one
    we got in there for moral reasons and by God
    we got out of there for moral reasons

    where else on this earth
    does such debate center on anything other than expediency
    only in America

    Watergate? — triumph of the system
    how could anybody watch Barbara Jordan thunder away at those House hearings
    and not feel a surge of pride in the miracle of this country?

    and there are those people who will tell you that
    our noisy dissent our raucous squabble
    weakened us as a country caused us to lose our supremacy

    don’t you believe it
    we are the envy of this world
    why?

    because throughout our history
    we have always maintained that we could do better
    we’ve insisted that we could do better

    we’ve always been willing to reinvent ourselves for the common good
    and in our darkest hour leaders — real leaders — have always stepped forward
    to hold the American people to the responsibility of citizenship

    well it’s time for that kind of leadership now
    and I’m not sure that it’s me
    but I’d like the chance to find out

    ____________________________________________________

    One can argue with portions of Tanner’s address, but he does represent a type of Democrat and Democratic spirit which went extinct with some recent asteroid strike. That’s the kind of Democrat I thought I was.

  17. What does he bring to the plate

    Well, I’d say his love for America is touching…

  18. What does he bring?

    Well, he’s not bat-shit crazy. So better than half the field.

  19. Hey, Cornhead, Biden is going to Iowa. If he turns up near you, you can ask him those questions — maybe.

    I am sickened this morning reading headline after headline about Biden saying Trump is about “hate, hate, hate.” Look in the mirror, Joe.

  20. No wonder Biden’s defending Obama. Obama’s choice of him as VP is what gave Biden this shining moment. –neo

    And, aside from occasional polite boilerplate, Obama is not defending Biden.

    As the only moderate candidate with name recognition, Biden is positioned to take the nomination, but nothing else lines up. He is old, white, male, charisma-less and even at his prime, not very fast or smart.

    I give Michelle Obama more of a chance, except I take her word that she really does not want to run.

    It will be interesting when someone lands another solid blow and Biden breaks open like pinata and the other candidates scramble for his voters.

  21. Biden is a dead man walking. He might be the last person to know it, but the rest of the country is waking up to that reality.

    Right now I think Warren has the inside track to the nomination, with Mayor Pete as her running mate. And she reminds me of my third grade teacher, whom I never cared for.

  22. And she reminds me of my third grade teacher, whom I never cared for.

    F: You had Mrs. Beck too?

    I’ll go with you on Warren. I think the smoke-filled rooms are for Kamala Harris, but she doesn’t seem to have the Right Stuff.

  23. F:

    Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are among the few people in the world less “likeable” than Hillary Clinton.

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