Joe Biden Likes our Aspirational Style | Bernie Sanders
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At a Campaign Rally today in Wilmington, Del., which has its primary election this Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders quoted what Vice President Biden said about him and his campaign this Thurs. in the NY Times. On style Biden said:
~JOE BIDEN: "HE'LL TAKE MR. SANDERS' ASPIRATIONAL APPROACH OVER MRS. CLINTON'S CAUTION ANY DAY." ~
..Some of Biden's praising comments about Sanders in the NY Times are included in this CNN article, Sat. April 23.
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*BIDEN MUM ON WHETHER HE VOTED FOR CLINTON OR SANDERS*, Updated, Sat. April 23, 2016.
(CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden cast his vote in the Delaware Democratic primary Friday but stayed quiet on which candidate he voted for as his party's nominee. The vice president -- and his wife, Jill Biden -- voted early while at their home in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday, the vice president's office confirmed to CNN. Politico first reported his vote on Friday.
While Biden has not endorsed either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nominee, he has not been shy about talking about the state of the race and the two candidates.
Just this week in an interview, Biden praised Sanders for thinking big about how to lead the country, seeming to dismiss the Vermont independent senator's critics who say his proposals are not realistic. "I like the idea of saying, 'We can do much more,' because we can," Biden told The New York Times in an interview published Thursday. "I don't think any Democrat's ever won saying, 'We can't think that big — we ought to really downsize here because it's not realistic,'" Biden said. "C'mon man, this is the Democratic Party! I'm not part of the party that says, 'Well, we can't do it.'"
*It's not the first time Biden has made comments interpreted as support for the Vermont senator.
During a CNN interview with Gloria Borger in January, Biden backed Sanders' fight on income inequality and described Clinton as "relatively new" to the movement.
Biden mulled whether to run for the Democratic nomination last year, before he put an end to speculation in an October announcement that he wouldn't seek the presidency. The vice president, who has wanted to reach the highest office for decades, said he regrets "every day" that he didn't enter the 2016 presidential race -- but that his decision was in his family's best interests.
*The Delaware primary, scheduled for Tuesday, is a closed primary. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Maryland also have their primaries that day.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/23/politics/joe-biden-votes-democratic-primary/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/us/politics/biden-looks-back-aspirations-intact.html?_r=0
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was born in 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware where he graduated from the University of Delaware. He received a law degree from Syracuse University, practiced law in Wilmington, and was a Councilman for New Castle County, Delaware. In 1972 Biden campaigned and was elected US Senator from Delaware (D) which he represented from 1973-2009 when he became the Vice President of President Barack Obama.
Biden is the first Roman Catholic and the first Delawarean to become Vice President of the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
Having passed on the 2016 presidential race, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. watches the fight for the Democratic nomination with a mixture of longing and restlessness.
He remains neutral in the battle between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, but not between their campaign styles.
*He’ll take Mr. Sanders’s aspirational approach over Mrs. Clinton’s caution any day.*
“I like the idea of saying, ‘We can do much more,’ because we can,” Mr. Biden said in an interview on the Washington-to-Wilmington, Del., Amtrak train he has ridden throughout four decades in national politics.
“I don’t think any Democrat’s ever won saying, ‘We can’t think that big — we ought to really downsize here because it’s not realistic,’ ” he said in a mocking tone. “C’mon man, this is the Democratic Party! I’m not part of the party that says, ‘Well, we can’t do it.’ ”
...Pointing to the financial crisis, the Great Recession and fierce battles with Republicans over health care and government funding, Mr. Biden said, “We had about eight atom bombs dropped on our desk.”
*Yet he likes the idea that Mr. Sanders is aiming high, regardless of whether the large steps he envisions to narrow INCOME INEQUALITY and broaden economic opportunity become realized in the next presidential term. The philosophy Mr. Biden has advocated within the Obama White House: Push for a lot, and persevere over the long run.
*“Presidents have always been told by really smart people: ‘Don’t push something that you can’t succeed in-- it diminishes your power,’ ” he said. “I completely disagree with that proposition. “Everything I’ve ever cared about — with the exception of the president’s brilliant passage of the Affordable Care Act -- takes time,” he added.
*“The only way to get these big things done is talk about them.”
More: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/us/politics/biden-looks-back-aspirations-intact.html?_r=0
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., center, at the Oval Office this month.
*He remains neutral in the battle between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, but not between their campaign styles*.
