Joe Biden For President

I'm someone that's always liked what Biden says, and he's got tons and tons of ambition. Maybe it's the cynicism I've learned, but sometimes I get the feeling he says stuff just because it makes for a good sound bite. Then again, as I mentioned, most of what he says is always pretty good and he's really become one of the leading experts on foreign policy. You don't have to agree with his policy to admit that he knows what he's talking about. And he's been an advocate for the partitioning of Iraq for a while now. He was also big on the COPS program that put an extra 100,000 police officers on the street.

Outside of politics, him and his kid are both kinda aloof and what have you. But as was mentioned, the whole drinking a beer with someone ain't exactly a good reason to vote.

And the whole plagiarism thing. Geez, I can hope people will get off of something that happened when I was in 3rd grade.

Of course with Obama and Hillary running, and Biden being from little ass Delaware, and really only northern Delaware if you ask anyone in that state, he's got no shot. Too bad, because he and Obama are the only ones I care much about right now.

 

I can't stand Biden. He's just always rubbed me wrong and I can't get past it.

But I saw a few minutes of Meet the Press on Sunday morning and he was shredding Lindsay Graham in a dicussion about Iraq. He was just being honest about where we are at, what he thinks we should do and what he thinks Congress is going to do. He wasn't making the Pelosi cut and run argument. And he wasn't posturing--he was honest about the fact that the President controls the military and the power of the purse is meaningless, because unless Congress cuts off all funding for the military, the President can allocate the resources however he sees fit.

About Iraq, he basically said the obvious: the Shia-dominated government is not willing to make the compromises necessary in an emerging democracy--everyone saw how the Saddam hanging degenerated into an ugly Shia vs. Sunni show of vengeance--and as long as that's the case, there's going to be civil war. Our strategy seems to be that we're waiting for Thomas Jefferson to suddenly emerge and it just isn't going to happen on it's own. So Biden was saying we need to start giving ultimatums and make it clear that we are going to bail if they can't find a way to be inclusive and get the shitkickers under control (not exactly Biden's words, but...). It's not perfect, but I think it's about the best we can do with the mess.

 

And he's been saying that for months now, hell probably close to a year, and only now is it gaining any attention. Which to me is shocking since he'll bend over backwards for any producer from MTP or what have you.