The articulate Vice President Joe Biden thread

More here:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/best-biden-biden-new-congress-first-day/

I didn't see this the first time

http://i.imgur.com/nwQMGn6.jpg

Joe Biden Visits Williamsburg VICE HQ: "I'm A Weird Guy, I Go Where The Action Is"

http://gothamist.com/2015/02/04/joe_biden_vice_visit.php

dude

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/joe-biden-butt-buddy.html

http://36.media.tumblr.com/d39e1b9e0221c6753891e9631e833b64/tumblr_nk23ykxsf21rj0wxlo5_1280.jpg

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/heres-joe-biden-sucking-on-a-babys-pacifier.html

the joe abides

Wow. Can we keep Biden alive forever?

EltonJohnson 2 hours ago
@LCNYC

So he's acting silly with a baby. So what?

Germs... viruses, bacteria. Many adults carry the herpes virus and never show symptoms.
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Beau Biden dead of brain cancer.

Mr. Biden is not ready to talk about the future and did not respond to a request for an interview. But he is seen in a different light for the moment. Wherever he goes these days, he receives condolences. Indeed, Mr. Biden’s grief has been so public, so human, in a way not seen in a sitting president or vice president in many years, that it has struck a nerve in Washington and beyond.

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Republican presidential candidate, choked up while talking to a video crew from the Huffington Post about Mr. Biden. “I called him after Beau died, and he basically said, ‘Well, Beau was my soul,’ ” Mr. Graham said with tears in his eyes.

When Mr. Graham retired from the Air Force Reserve, he noted, Mr. Biden made a point of attending the ceremony. “He’s the nicest person I think I’ve ever met in politics,” Mr. Graham said. “He is as good a man as God ever created. And we don’t agree on much, but I think he’s been dealt a really gut blow.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/us/politics/still-reeling-from-sons-death-joe-biden-weighs-his-political-future.html?ref=politics

Well, Beau was my soul

Oof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-BItOvXP48

cannot beeleeve this

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/politics/joe-biden-white-house-2016-presidential-campaign.html

sure you can

Well, Bernie was fun while it lasted. Nicely played, Dems!

i don't see how this would immediately hurt Sanders' support. Biden wd just slice into HRC's Only a Corporatist Asshole Can Win vote.

but how will this affect Chuck Todd

biden def preferable to hilary tbh

yes

how the fuck do you figure?

http://jpupdates.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Clinton-Biden.jpg

how the fuck do you figure?

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, August 2, 2015 9:05 PM (51 minutes ago)

iirc biden has been the good angel in obama's ear (opposite hilary) on a few key issues, not saying he'll be great but if i had to choose i'd take him

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/07/the-corruption-of-joe-biden/

http://i.imgur.com/YMVMwoU.jpg

An oasis of clarity in a world of blurry people. Vote for Joe.

"While Biden has shifted on some drug issues, he remains a staunch defender of his record on crime, even as Bill and Hillary Clinton have expressed their regret for the consequences of the 1994 crime bill and other anti-drug policies.

Joe Biden, in other words, is the Democratic face of the drug war."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/08/joe_biden_presidential_run_why_it_s_a_bad_idea.html

Joe being Joe

Great campaign photo there.

The Many Occasions Joe Biden Took Credit For Writing The Patriot Act

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/surveillance-joe#.lb4PROAJz

p4reene:

"The crime law—which Joe Biden was still calling the '1994 Biden Crime Bill' earlier this year—expanded the scope of the racist prison-industrial complex and helped balloon America’s incarcerated population. The bankruptcy bill was one of the most nakedly corporatist and anti-consumer pieces of legislation of the entire George W. Bush administration. (It also had the secondary effect of exacerbating the subprime mortgage crisis.)"

http://gawker.com/some-things-joe-biden-could-do-instead-of-running-for-p-1737899784

Connor Kilpatrick
‏@ckilpatrick
Rich liberals at the Oscars go wild for Biden, the man who made it almost impossible for regular people to discharge debt in bankruptcy

@DougHenwood
By the way, at the time, Eliz Warren told me the bill was written by a law firm for the credit card industry.

why did everybody stand up? are you supposed to? the way broadcast was edited seemed like Louis Gossett Jr. was first to stand so I figured maybe it was old school etiquette...

Yeah, the way they all stood for Elia Kazan.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/you-are-a-warrior-joe-biden-writes-moving-open-letter-in-support-of-stanford-rape-survivor/

Manu Raju (CNN)
‏@mkraju
Just asked Biden if he's concerned w Bernie backers at DNC; said Ds should "show a little class" and let em be angry

@ggreenwald
Glad to see Biden say this. The bullying demands that all Sanders supporters instantly fall in line & cheer is gross

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/757972317456695296

"Instantly"

like since Super Tuesday

https://twitter.com/VP/status/761253705341480962

Onion Biden and real Biden are now one

http://deadsp.in/wtdIBTU

“’Because I’m a billionaire I can do things other people can’t.’ What a disgusting assertion for anyone to make,” Biden said while campaigning for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania. “The press always ask me, don’t I wish I was debating him? No, I wish we were in high school, and I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish."

Onion Biden and real Biden are now one

http://deadsp.in/wtdIBTU

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, October 20, 2016 3:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this was EXACTLY what I came in this thread to post with EXACTLY the same sentiment

But there's also this Joe Biden

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bidens-last-stand-convincing-democrats-not-to-give-up-on-the-white-working-class-voters-fueling-trump/2016/10/21/d4230d4a-7a94-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html

As his motorcade barreled into a high-dollar fundraiser in this wealthy St. Louis suburb recently, Vice President Biden noticed the firehouse next door. He told his aides to cut the fundraiser short a few minutes so that he and the Democrat running for Senate here could visit with the firefighters on the way out. These were his people, and for more than 10 minutes Biden talked to the fire company about what they do and how members of his own family had been saved by their work.

“Hey, I’ve used you guys several times, and it was great,” Biden told the crew, according to Clayton Fire Chief Mark Thorp. The fire crew was stunned by the gesture, Thorp said. “He just as easily could’ve gotten in his car and waved.”

Meanwhile: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/clinton-biden-secretary-of-state-230428

Neither Clinton, nor her aides have yet told Biden. According to the source, they’re strategizing about how to make the approach to the vice president

Guys, let's try to keep this between just us and Politico, okay? Oh, I can't wait to see the look on Joe's face when she springs the news!

I'm sure Jill will let the cat out of the bag before it's time.

As the State Dept becomes less powerful in relation to Defense, maybe affability and a 150 watt smile are roughly the right tools for the job. But the main talent HRC might be thinking about here may be his loyalty. He'd never go behind her back to slag her off to journalists because of an internal power struggle.

Plus another four years of Onion Biden stories, only this time with datelines from around the world

My LOL of the week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjx-1gE9J7U

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