TroyD (24 posts)
Ignore the right-wing outrage: Obama couldn't have found a better vice president than Biden
Last edited Sat Aug 18, 2012, 07:51 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
SATURDAY, AUG 18, 2012
From Salon.com
In one of the more futile spin attempts we’ve seen so far in the long and frequently annoying 2012 campaign for the White House, Republicans last week decided to go after Joe Biden, with various conservatives even suggesting that a decision to replace him on the ticket was around the corner.
Of course, in real life, Biden’s place is absolutely secure, and not just because presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Richard Nixon to George H.W. Bush learned that dumping a vice president isn’t as easy as one might think. None of that is relevant here. Why? Because Joe Biden is the practically perfect vice president. Truth is, he shouldn’t just stay on the ticket this time around; there’s a reasonable case to be made that he should stay on in 2016 and perhaps 2020, as well. He’s that good of a fit for the job.
The first job for any Veepstakes winner is to help the presidential nominee get all the way to the Oval Office. How to do that? Most studies have found that running mates can’t really help, but instead can hurt. So the first requirement is that any running mate appears sufficiently presidential, on the one hand, and avoids serious scandal, on the other. It’s surprising just how many vice presidential picks have failed one of these tests (Sarah Palin, of course, but Dan Quayle, Tom Eagleton, Spiro Agnew, Gerry Ferraro, perhaps Bob Dole back in 1976, and others all had problems, as well). Joe Biden? As far as I know, from 2008 to now, no one has questioned that the former chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and two-time presidential candidate wasn’t ready to step in if necessary. And he’s scandal-free — at least so far.
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rest of article here:
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/18/joe_biden_the_practically_perfect_vice_president/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125172739 riverbendviewgal (960 posts)
1. Joe is a keeper
they make a great team.
Yeah they do make a great team, neither one of them is very bright.
thucythucy (425 posts)
3. How can anyone take seriously
criticisms of a vice president from the party that gave us Dan Quayle, Dick Cheney, and Sarah Palin?
All three of those were destroyed by the media. Meanwhile Joe can say any stupid thing he wants and the same media provides cover for him.
Wounded Bear (1,423 posts)
4. The RW outrage only proves how good of a VP he is....
Where is the outrage that you speak of? We are laughing at him not outraged, every time he speaks he gives Romney a few more votes.
Zoeisright (5,599 posts)
5. They can stuff their ****ing poutrage where the sun don't shine.
There's nothing worse than an abuser who whines when people fight back against their shit.
And you pigs cry and whine when we fight back. 0bama and his team have lied their asses off about Romney and Ryan then you get all bent out of shape when they call them liars.
Liberal_Stalwart71 (11,747 posts)
6. This is how we know Biden is amazing: The wingnuts are ****ing mad!! DON'T **** WITH JOE!!
I can't wait to see the amazing Joe go up against Paul Ryan in the debate, it is going to be comedy gold for us, and pure pain for you losers.
