But his own White House dreams and reported rivalry with Clinton will have to be in the rearview mirror in order to deliver a home run endorsement, starting on stage and continuing through November.
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“I had planned on running for president, and life intervened”, Biden told his local paper, the Delaware News Journal, last week. But he told MSNBC Wednesday that rejecting a White House bid “was really just the right decision, I mean, for my family”. You are the best organizers on the planet, and I’m so proud of all the change you’ve made possible. In 1988, his first run ended abruptly amid allegations of plagiarism. And that is another bet that Donald Trump will lose.
But when the young Illinois Sen.
“What I think is scary is a president who doesn’t know their stuff and doesn’t seem to have interest in learning what they don’t know”, Obama told NBC News – “basic knowledge about the world or what a nuclear triad is or where various countries are or the difference between Sunni and Shia in the Muslim world”.
With only Hillary’s acceptance speech to come, the starting gate is about to open and the real race to begin for president 2016. Typically, the sitting vice president would be the natural choice to succeed a term-limited president. “Let the president talk to them”. That address launched Obama on a path to the White House – though he says he doesn’t go back and rewatch the tape.
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. He took note of the loss of his son, Beau, to brain cancer a little more than a year ago. “Donald Trump!”, yelped vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine on this day when Trump was heard to implore Russian Federation to dig deeper into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails.
“As someone who was responsible for protecting our nation from cyberattacks, it’s inconceivable to me that any presidential candidate would be that irresponsible”, he said.
It’s the small business owner in Colorado who cut most of his own salary so he wouldn’t have to lay off any of his workers in the recession – because, he said, ‘that wouldn’t have been in the spirit of America.’ It’s the conservative in Texas who said he disagreed with me on everything, but he appreciated that, like him, I try to be a good dad. “He’s playing directly into the hands of a guy who says his overarching goal with Putin is to break up North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and to fracture Europe, makes him stronger”, Biden alleged.
“I love Joe Biden”, said Tammie Lewis, a MI delegate.
Even after all he’s been through, he remains “the most optimistic person I know”, she said.
Ultimately, the grieving father never sounded like he was ready for the rigors of a national campaign so soon after such an unimaginable loss. “I know Hillary”, Biden said, adding that Clinton is passionate about education and keeping Americans safe. She was doin’ everything I was doin, ‘ but just like Ginger Rogers: “backwards and in heels”. You get the sense that these are towns that have seen better times.
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But one, this is kind of a bittersweet moment for Jill and me and our family. We endure! We overcome and we always move forward. Biden has helped introduced Murphy to voters around the state, including Miami and Orlando, with another event coming up in in Tallahassee in August, said Murphy’s campaign manager Josh Wolf. Do not quit. It’s the painting I keep in my private office, a big-eyed, green owl, with blue wings, made by a seven year-old girl who was taken from us in Newtown, given to me by her parents so I wouldn’t forget – a reminder of all the parents who have turned their grief into action.
