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It's too soon for people to either panic or cheer, depending on one's preference.
All the criticisms against Vice President Biden have no depth!
He says goofy things once in a while, but don't we all? He is one of us. There are no scandals, there are no accusations of any substance, I say again, he can win this!
I'm in my 50s, and Senator/Vice President "Joe" has always been there, he has been around long enough to have the sort of history that qualifies him to be the "Elder Statesman", the "Adult Supervision", the "voice of reason", he is what this country needs!
While I would love to see us elect the first Woman as president, Secretary Clinton has a lot of baggage that would make this election too much about defense, and not enough about offense.
Just my $0.02.
J.
P.S. I am sort of pissed off that my spell checker says Biden is not a word 
I mean, Reagan was befuddled during his whole 8 years, so I wouldn't want to chance it with H.
She's obsessed with the Clintons.
Hillary must have stolen her boyfriend in another lifetime. Her vitriol is always way over the top when it comes to Hillary. I would take with a grain of salt anything she writes. She also trashed Gore in the past, and after lauding Obama in the primaries, she went after him too once he became president.
She has preferences and dislikes that color her columns. In other words, I take anything she writes with a grain of salt. She changes like the wind.
Here's an article from 2007 about Dowd:
"But then, why should pundits criticize Coulter when she describes Dem males as big “f*ggots?” It’s very similar to the gender-based “analysis” their dauphine, the Comptesse Maureen Dowd, has long offered. In Dowd’s work, John Edwards is routinely “the Breck Girl”(five times so far—and counting), and Gore is “so feminized that he’s practically lactating.” Indeed, two days before we voted in November 2000, Dowd devoted her entire column, for the sixth time, to an imaginary conversation between Gore and his bald spot. “I feel pretty,” her headline said (pretending to quote Gore’s inner thoughts).That was the image this idiot wanted you carrying off to the voting booth with you! Such is the state of Maureen Dowd’s broken soul. And such is the state of her cohort."
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh030507.shtml
For more than twenty years, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has been attacking Hillary Clinton from a shallow well of insults, routinely portraying the former secretary of state and first lady as an unlikeable, power-hungry phony.
Media Matters analyzed 195 columns by Dowd since November 1993 containing significant mentions of Clinton for whether they included any of 16 negative tropes in five categories (listed in the below methodology). 72 percent (141 columns) were negative towards Clinton -- only 8 percent (15 columns) were positive. The remaining 20 percent (39 columns) were neutral.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/18/the-numbers-behind-maureen-dowds-21-year-long-c/199752
Maureen Dowd shared some of her early observations of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Sunday, and the recommendations she offers in the editorial are — surprise! — steeped in sexism.
In a New York Times op-ed (with the apt headline “Granny Get Your Gun”), Dowd bemoans the former secretary of state’s apparent problem of not being able to “figure out how to campaign as a woman,” and notes some behaviors Clinton might want to try and avoid if she plans to gear her campaign away from the “foolishness of acting like a masculine woman” (as in 2008) while also illustrating “that bitch is still the new black”:
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/20/basking_in_estrogen_maureen_dowd_offers_predictably_sexist_take_on_hillary_clintons_campaign/
Like an obsessed Anne Harrington in All About Eve, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has been writing about Hillary Clinton for more than two decades, comparing her to characters from Scarlett O’Hara to the Terminator.
Dowd has written 195 columns about Hillary Clinton since 1993, according to an analysis by the liberal group Media Matters, released on Wednesday. An advance copy of the review was provided to BuzzFeed by the organization.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/heres-what-you-learn-from-reading-20-years-worth-of-maureen#.tqOMdKr40
during the 8 long tortuous years of the Bush Cheney regime, I read her columns fairly regularly. Never in those 8 years do I recall ever reading Dowd engaging in criticizing HRC. Although, I may have missed those.
She goes after figures in power or who hunger to be in positions of power.
Dowd's perspective is not exactly unique. She's expressing a pov which is more common and widely shared than some would rather not admit.
just in case there's some confusion, Dowd is no fan of republicans, nor am I. 
soon 
