Will Vice President Biden Run For President

[progressiveinnarb]

Joe Biden has served as Vice President of the United States since 2009 winning re-election along with President Obama in November 2012. Previously, he represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate. He was first elected in 1972 and served in that position until he became vice president in January 2009. Biden has mounted two unsuccessful bids for the Democratic presidential nomination, in 1988 and 2008. It is rumored that he is a potential 2016 candidate.

-USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/26/joe-biden-2016-president-democratic-nomination/2063301/

There's only one prominent Democratic contender who has traveled to all three early presidential primary states so far in 2015. It's not Hillary Clinton. Nor is it Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or even Martin O'Malley.

It's Joe Biden, who may be running the most under-the-radar White House campaign of any sitting vice president in modern times. Biden made stops in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina last month. The appearances were all ostensibly aimed at promoting President Obama's agenda, but as the old axiom goes, no politician visits any of these states by accident, and certainly not in the calendar year before primary voters head to the polls.

The 72-year-old, generally regarded as the nation's well-meaning but goofy (and occasionally creepy) grandpa, Biden has long been considered an afterthought in the 2016 sweepstakes. The assumption: He's not crazy enough to think he could take on Hillary, his good friend and former Cabinet-mate...is he?

-The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/is-joe-biden-running-for-president/387115/

[Agschmid]

1. I think it's likely.

[Raine1967]

2. I don't think so.

I have a very good friend who worked for his last campaign (as in with Joe on a daily basis). I asked him a few months ago about this and he said that Biden thought two tries was enough.

I could be wrong, but I really don't think he will run, even with the stories out there saying that beau wanted him to do so.

If he jumps in, I would be thrilled, but am not seeing it.

[LLStarks]

3. If he jumps in next month per the rumors, it could literally be only days before the first debate

Why is he waiting so long?

[progressiveinnarb]

4. Ah!

Hurry up joe!

[msongs]

5. no hurry (almost said Rush lol) - it's not like he is an unknown nt

[Sheepshank]

6. I think he would be an awesome addition to the candidates.....

...I can't help but wonder if his heart is really in to it all since most go through some personal, life and family re-evaluations when having a close family member pass. Some things just don't seem so important anymore.

Granted, running for POYUS was likely something he has been considering for a very long time, and maybe following through is who he is...just.....I dunno, I wonder if he just might want to mourn in private finally.

[BlueMTexpat]

7. Hopefully not.

He's a good man and has been a great Veep, IMO. He was also an excellent - and liberal - Senator.

But a resounding NO for President. He exercised a supreme failure in judgment w/r/t Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and was key in getting that loathesome POS confirmed.

He was also a long-term member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and chaired it from June 2001 through 2003.

If anyone SHOULD have been well-informed enough about Iraq NOT to fall for Bush-Cheney BS about Iraq and NOT to vote FOR the IWR, it should have been Biden. Instead, he effectively led the charge for it in the Senate.

No, Joe deserves a good rest. He has fought the good fight and there is a lot that he can do to help other than by running for President.