Breaking: Biden Announcement Imminent?

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Media vehicles are arriving outside VP Biden’s house in Greenville as we speak.

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  1. Bill Dunn says:
    October 9, 2015 at 8:56 am

    I hope he runs and I hope he talks Elizabeth Warren into being his running mate. His Judicial and Foreign policy background, on top of being an involved VP and her Economics background with a proven commitment to finance reform, makes it my perfect ticket.

  2. Kevin Ohlandt says:
    October 9, 2015 at 8:59 am

    But what are his stances on education? If he is aligned with Obama on this I can not and will not support him.

  3. Dorian Gray says:
    October 9, 2015 at 9:05 am

    V.P. JRB jr needs to like join the race first, and, oh yeah, win the nomination before we can chat about running mates, no?

    Plus, to get my support he’s going to have to pull the same very public mea culpa of one WJ Clinton on that old Crime Bill thing since we’re just beginning to unwind that disaster. Actually, if he throws his cap in ring he’ll need to take steps further. Perhaps drop to his knees to apologise. That’s what I’m looking for.

    At his point, months from the first caucus/primary and even more months till the actual election, I say just make a decision so this stupid reality programme can keep on keeping on.

  4. mouse says:
    October 9, 2015 at 9:08 am

    What is Obama’s objectionable stance on education?

  5. Dorian Gray says:
    October 9, 2015 at 9:10 am

    Well, Kevin, with the VP we’d at the very least have a Dem candidate shrilling for TPP ratification. A sharp contrast from both HR Clinton – who would be supporting the deal if she were still a Senator or Secretary of State but can oppose now that she’s an unemployed presidential candidate – and Mr Sanders – who opposes all free trade deals as determents to the American worker but likely won’t win 1 single delegate south of Cleveland OH.

  6. Dorian Gray says:
    October 9, 2015 at 9:11 am

    Common Core screed in 3… 2… 1…

  7. Jason330 says:
    October 9, 2015 at 9:46 am

    WDEL hasn’t cut away from Al’s show yet.

  8. Jason330 says:
    October 9, 2015 at 9:50 am

    Al is killing me with this baseball talk

  9. mouse says:
    October 9, 2015 at 9:50 am

    I don’t get why a Democrat would support a trade deal like this? They all say how it will increase economic growth but it’s obvious all that growth will go to the 1% and stockholders while any new jobs will be in forced child labor Asian nations. Where are the tough questions on this issue. We need living wage jobs here badly

  10. Dorian Gray says:
    October 9, 2015 at 9:58 am

    I guess all the Camera prep and blocking and lighting set-up and powdering of faces takes time. Maybe we’ll get a televised statement by lunchtime.

    As far as the TPP, I suppose it depends on what brand of Democrat one is posing as this week. A corporatist, career senator type would support the president while a former corporatist, career senator type who is presently campaigning against an independent socialist type may exploit the fact that she’s unemployed at the moment to take a hard line against shipping our phone and shoe assembly to Vietnam at a nickel an hour.

  11. Dorian Gray says:
    October 9, 2015 at 9:59 am

    By the way, not for nothing and this may be an overshare, I have the sweetest ripper of a caffeine high this am.

  12. mouse says:
    October 9, 2015 at 10:23 am

    I made a pot of fresh ground Starbucks this morning and left with out pouring a cup. Turned around and went home to get it!

  13. Geezer says:
    October 9, 2015 at 10:25 am

    @Jason: someone’s on the scene, no news yet.

    I’m on my second pot of java myself.

  14. Dorian Gray says:
    October 9, 2015 at 10:28 am

    I’m not a Starbucks man, but I feel you. I did a double espresso washed down with a large Kenyan dark roast from LOMA (3d & Market). Plus it’s Friday. The idea of the weekend near generally helps the high.

  15. Dorian Gray says:
    October 9, 2015 at 10:35 am

    You ladies and gentlemen may grasp the machination of this shit. I’m really don’t. Would you all suppose that the party muckety-mucks just politely asked our VP to defecate or step away from the throne, so to speak, prior to this debate next week? Either join the troops in this TV travesty or officially and unequivocally step off? All this demurring and uncertainty and PAC produced Run-Joe-Run video stuff must been quite annoying to the party people, I’d guess.

  16. intheknow says:
    October 9, 2015 at 10:50 am

    Or, perhaps, Maureen Dowd had it all wrong and the dreamers at DL had it nailed all along … Beau really said, “Dad, you’ve got to run for governor, and keep Legislative Hall out of the hands of Carney and Carper.”

  17. SussexWatcher says:
    October 9, 2015 at 11:14 am

    My guess: Unless the national press corps is on site, this is probably just local / regional media reacting to the Biden-staff-meet-with-DNC story out today. They have no sources at that level, so they’re pulling stakeout duty, like Joe’s just going to step into his front yard and start speaking.

  18. El Somnambulo says:
    October 9, 2015 at 11:15 am

    An announcement on a Friday? At his residence?

    Gotta be a ‘no’.

  19. mouse says:
    October 9, 2015 at 2:31 pm

    Yes, lol. I like Starbucks beans to grind myself and I’m a cool young guy with their app so I get rewards. I get beat on frequently for support the corporate machine though. More and more coffee shops down here

  20. El Somnambulo says:
    October 9, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    I take it…false alarm?

  21. Anonymous says:
    October 9, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    Go for it Joe. Hillary is scared to death if Joe runs. It will be the end of the Clinton’s!

    Thank goodness.

  22. puck says:
    October 9, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    The end of the Clinton’s what?

  23. El Somnambulo says:
    October 9, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    The end of the Clinton’s possessive apostrophe.

  24. Delawarelefty says:
    October 10, 2015 at 12:33 am

    Re thugs like Anonymous, are scared shitless by Clinton and pray (on their knees) for some other candidate. The Clintons have never been my idea of Democrats, but if she can beat the field then she should be our candidate!

  25. John Manifold says:
    October 10, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38732/hillary-heart-right-places/

  26. Anonymous says:
    October 11, 2015 at 12:03 am

    ES, hopefully the end of the Clinton’s in the political light. Let them get their 6 figure speaking fees and their money from foreign States. Oh wait, why don’t they use that money to help the poor go to school, get better jobs and get them off the support of society. THAT, would be doing something!!! Oh, that is not the Democratic way, bigger government, more people on welfare and a bigger nanny Country.

  27. puck says:
    October 11, 2015 at 8:00 am

    How many more people did Bill Clinton put on welfare, Anonymous?

  28. Anonymous says:
    October 11, 2015 at 9:55 am

    Puck:
    Who’s running Bill or Hillary????

  29. puck says:
    October 11, 2015 at 10:31 am

    How many people did Hillary Clinton put on welfare, for that matter?

  30. Dorian Gray says:
    October 12, 2015 at 8:29 am

    Just as a point of fact, WJ Clinton engineered one of the biggest so-called welfare to work initiatives in history in 1996. Look up Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). Introduced in the House by one Ohio representative John Kasich. Bill sign into law by Bill. And really another awful fucking example of the Clinton moderate triangulation schemes.

    For this fucking oatmeal brained “Anonymous” to ask for the Clintons to do something for the poor to “get better jobs and get them off the support of society” is very illustrative. Anonymous doesn’t know history or politics or much of anything.

    This bill was an abject failure in my opinion, just like the Clinton Crime Bill. Which is why so many people are really nervous about what another Clinton presidency would look like (e.g. not liberal, more corporatist). Is it fair to lay her husband’s failures on her. Probably not, but if were going to argue about what’s fair and what isn’t we’ll be here a good long while.

    When you don’t know anything, Anonymous, stay silent. You make yourself look like a fucking idiot. On the other hand, I love very much mocking you as a dim witted turd, so if you feel the need to tap out another stupid comment, by all means.

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