I didn’t think that Elizabeth Warren would be a good choice for Hillary’s veep but it’s become clear that she really REALLY wants the job. And she’s the kind of person who will move mountains when she wants something. She’s not rigid, she always evolves, and that matches Hillary’s own greatest strength.
Imagine how much better she could be as a running mate than some boring fellow named John or Jack that nobody ever heard about.
I believe Clinton should choose Joe Biden as running mate. There are no term limits for Vice President, and Joe is very popular and is considered stable, capable, reliable, honest, and extremely qualified in every way. If he is the running mate, I will have no qualms about voting for her. Otherwise, I will be inclined to vote for Jill Stein.
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I adore Biden, too. He saved Obama’s reelection bid when Obama floundered in his first debates with Romney. I will never forget how masterfully Biden wiped the floor with Ryan.
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I believe Clinton should choose Joe Biden as running mate. There are no term limits for Vice President, and Joe is very popular and is considered stable, capable, reliable, honest, and extremely qualified in every way. If he is the running mate, I will have no qualms about voting for her. Otherwise, I will be inclined to vote for Jill Stein.
Joe Biden said he was retiring from politics when he announced he wasn’t going to run again. He would not run as VP even if he was asked by anyone. Further, I don’t think he has the psychological reserves to run in a presidential campaign as his son recently died.
Joe Biden is a weird preference for someone who wants to vote for Jill Stein and supported Bernie Sanders. He was known as the senator from MBNA.
I love Biden too, but it has less to do with his politics (much like HRC, pretty “centrist”) and more with his political persona.
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Exactly. He’s a huge asset on a campaign. After the campaign, it’s a whole another thing.
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What’s MBNA?
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MBNA was a bank with credit cards as its only business. The initials stood for “Maryland Bank National Association” and it was headquartered in Delaware. It did not exist when Biden was first elected to the Senate and it does not exist now. It was absorbed into Bank of America maybe a decade ago. (I have not looked it up, so this timeline is approximate.)
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MBNA Paid Biden’s Son As Biden Backed Bill
Basically Biden backed legislation such at the 2005 bankruptcy bill that credit card companies supported and consumer advocates opposed.
This is why I said it’s weird for someone who is leftist and thinks HRC isn’t leftist enough to trumpet Joe Biden as a VP for a second president, especially if your first choices are candidates saying “Big banks & Wall Street are why we can’t have nice things.”
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“f your first choices are candidates saying “Big banks & Wall Street are why we can’t have nice things.””
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…but it has less to do with his politics (much like HRC, pretty “centrist”) and more with his political persona.
Exactly. He seems as though he can be trusted with the job. He was my Senator for 36 years. I worked on his first campaign in 1972, though not on any of his subsequent ones.
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Warren is very entertaining — it’s amusing to hear her and Trump throw childish insults back and forth like ten-year-olds — but there are several reasons she probably won’t be Hillary’s VP pick:
She’s a woman. The first-ever all-woman ticket? Bold but risky for the general election.
She’s almost as old as Hillary, who if elected, will be the second oldest President ever to take office.
She’s a brighter personality on stage than Hillary. A VP candidate shouldn’t outshine the top of the ticket.
She’s very far left, which might scare off more undecided voters than it would bring in Bernie supporters (who will mostly vote for Hillary, anyway).
The Republican governor of Warren’s state would replace her with a Republican senator, making it harder for the Democrats to regain control of the senate.
Still, anything’s possible this election year, so we’ll see…
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Warren is a brighter personality on stage?? Are we talking about the same Warren? Because the one I’m talking about is bookish, nerdy and charmless in the extreme.
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But she really lights up when she tears into Trump! Didn’t you see how joyous she was on stage with Hillary in their matching blue outfits? 🙂
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No, I didn’t see, I’m telling you, I conk out every time I see Warren.
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Wow. I think Elizabeth Warren is extremely charismatic, far moreso than Hillary Clinton.
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If by charismatic you mean “can put a crowd of insomniacs to sleep within seconds”, then yes, absolutely. 🙂 🙂
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“Are we talking about the same Warren? Because the one I’m talking about is bookish, nerdy and charmless in the extreme.”
I was watching a bloggingheads.tv debate between glenn loury and harold pollack (highly recommended) where pollack said he had witnessed warren come to the black church in his neighborhood to give speeches/sermons quite regularly, and she brought the house down.
You’ve got to have serious chops to be able to do that.
Hillary is great at one-on-ones and the townhall format, but she’s terrible at giving rousing stump speeches.
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I like Warren. She’s warm and no nonsense in a midwestern kind of way (she’s from Kansas).
But she can still serve as an effective surrogate without being a VP and she is much more effective in the Senate than as a VP which is a very limited role unless you are a Dick Cheney type of VP. She’s from MA which is a small state that HRC won in the primary by herself. She neither shores up HRC’s electoral weaknesses not turns out people who would otherwise stay home or who skew heavily Democratic.
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