“This is kind of a bittersweet moment for Jill and me and our family”. Asked about that decision in January, he confessed: “I regret it every day”. The vice president thought long and hard about running for president himself before opting out. In 1988, his first run ended abruptly amid allegations of plagiarism.
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But when the young Illinois Sen.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Can Barack Obama top his wife?
Set to introduce Obama on Wednesday night is Sharon Belkofer, a 73-year-old retired nurse whose son died in Afghanistan.
When the 2016 race ramped up, Biden was initially somewhat of an afterthought. It was also a bit distressing for Republicans to see how easily this was accomplished, leaving them to wonder again how their own candidates had so utterly failed to unmask Trump.
Biden spoke of his relationship with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, paid fitting tribute to his son Beau Biden, who passed away last May of brain cancer at age 46, and of course extolled the virtues of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and the historic nature of her potential presidency.
But then, in May 2015 tragedy struck again for the man whose entire career had been forged by tragedy – his wife and daughter were killed in a auto accident right after he was first elected in 1972, and he himself survived two aneurysms.
This time, his eldest son and political heir Beau, the former attorney general of DE, died at just 46 of brain cancer.
“I look at someone who is a statesman”. This is a complicated and uncertain world we live in.
“The thing that bothers me is I don’t see any attempt for him to go out and get people who really know on the Republican side”, Biden said, pointing to Trump’s recent remarks that he would consider defying Article 5 of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation by declining to provide military aid to US allies.
The president seemed, at times, nearly baffled by the 2016 campaign.
The party is bringing in its heavyweights to project a unified party at the Democratic National Convention, where a raucous opening day of protests gave way to a more orderly nomination for Clinton on Tuesday. “These guys don’t know what they’re talking about”.
Biden said Trump does not know the middle class despite his attempts to appeal to blue collar workers. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary’s tough.
He never got there, at least not in time. “One of the finest presidents we have ever had”. They show that Obama will paint an optimistic picture of the country.
“I believe we have to end the divisive politics. What they’re doing is they’re breaking up our alliances”, Biden said in an interview with George Stephanopoulos. Way up. Folks, as I stand here tonight, I see so many friends and colleagues, like my buddy Chris Dodd and the CT delegation.
In the months since, the mood of the country has been anything but that hopeful plea, with Trump rising in large part due to fear and unrest. “No major party, no major party nominee in the history of this nation has ever known less has been less prepared to deal with our national security”, Biden told an electrifying audience at the Democratic National Convention.
After his Florida event, Trump made stops in Pennsylvania and was headed for OH, energized by a Los Angeles Times poll out Wednesday that showed him leading Clinton, 47%-40%.
The two reportedly had a good working relationship while Clinton was in the Cabinet, but there was always a lingering jealousy of sorts from the vice president. “.It’s her life story: she’s always there, she’s always been there”.
In a Facebook posting, New Mexico delegate Kathleen Burke says Obama is “highly complicit in the silencing” of liberals because he supported Clinton over Sanders for the presidential nomination. The tour is scheduled to begin on August 15th in Scranton Pennsylvania.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet, including America’s retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights, and campaigns and elections.
Biden also criticized Trump’s comments on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, suggesting in an interview with the New York Times that he would only defend countries if they have fulfilled their obligations.
“We have to be a little graceful here”, he continued. They get a chance, man. “And i don’t think this is going to be close”.
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But even if he’s behind Clinton now, he confessed to ABC’s Robin Roberts earlier this year that he still thought about what might have been. “The things he says make absolutely no sense”.
