Joe Biden Stirs 2016 Speculation With Iowa Trip

[applegrove]

Joe Biden Stirs 2016 Speculation With Iowa Trip

by Igor Bobic at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/07/joe-biden-iowa-2016_n_6636156.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden will visit the early caucus state of Iowa next week, stirring speculation once again about the possibility of a presidential run in 2016.

Biden will travel to Des Moines on Thursday to tout the Obama administration's policies on the economy at Drake University, the White House announced. The vice president will also participate in a roundtable at Des Moines Area Community College, where he will presumably discuss President Barack Obama's proposal to offer "free" community college to American students.

If Biden, 72, were to be elected president in 2016, he would take office at age 74, making him the oldest person ever to do so. Former President Ronald Reagan, the current record holder, assumed the office at age 69.

Biden said in an interview last month that there is "a chance" he will run for president in 2016, regardless of whether his fellow Democrat, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, decides to do the same, as she is expected to do.



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[applegrove]

1. Please run Joe. Hillary Clinton needs a formidable opponent. Someone brilliant to

force her to bring her A game to the nomination race.

[handmade34]

3. agree...

gotta love VP Biden... (and he would be a great Pres)

[applegrove]

4. Yes. I would love him as President too. But I'm a Clinton supporter.

[Stellar]

6. I heard someone on the morning news

say that Joe Biden should be the permanent VP.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. Hillary has an "A game"? "A" as in "awful" maybe, but that's about it.

[Agschmid]

2. He sort of has to say he is going to run...

Otherwise his role is diminished.

[Stellar]

5. I'd love for any real democrat to run.

Reagan was just 69 when he ran for office? He looked MUCH older.

[Reter]

7. No he didn't

In the beginning I thought he looked amazing for his age.

[Stellar]

12. TO ME...

Reagan looked like a distinguished old a** man.

[Logical]

13. Yes he did! Nt

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Congratulations!

They've found the one guy I find even less inspiring to think about as a candidate than HRC.

Can't wait to hear his take on the steady progress of Marijuana legalization.

[woo me with science]

10. Not just no, but HELL NO, to Mr. MBNA/Bank of America as the Democratic candidate in 2016.

The LAST thing the Democratic Party needs is another candidate as corrupted by and deep in the pockets of the big banks as Joe Biden is. Google "Joe Biden MBNA" and review his revolting behavior re: bankruptcy reform and the financial crises.

Not to mention his cowardly complicity in the surveillance/police state and the persecution of Edward Snowden under the Obama administration, after criticizing NSA abuses in 2006. And his defense of the drug wars.

Joes Biden is deep in complicity with the current corporate-money-corrupted, bipartisan cabal of politicians who are dismantling our Constitution and ushering in authoritarian corporate rule.

We MUST do better in 2016, because this nation, and Americans, can't endure four more years of this predatory corporate agenda literally moving into fascism.

[tritsofme]

11. Biden is not a serious candidate nor a threat to Hillary, the vice presidency notwithstanding.