Biden has nothing to do with the decision. His handlers will inform him when they've settled on someone.

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My money's on his picking Harris in this situation

Good article, but the conclusion kinda circles back on itself - "I don't know what's going to happen, so I'm going to buy the argument I just demolished."

With the ten day delay (if that's what it is), I'm circling back to a WAG of my own: Biden is still trying to see who can gather what coalition behind themselves. Biden doesn't really care who his Veep winds up being, he just cares who can help unite the Dems behind him and who brings the largest and most enthusiastic cadre of Dems to Biden's effort to get himself elected President.

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Biden pretty much fucked himself into a corner by saying "my choice will be an XYZ".

I didn't know there was a Z chromosome.

Then there's karen bass from ca, who wants the vp job. She'd fit right into the potential list of biden vp candidates.

https://www.politico.com/news/...e-los-angeles-388430

Tick tock...93 days...but no rush, take your time

If he were such a shoe-in, as sooo many desperately want America to believe (he's wayyyy ahead in the poles don'tcha know?? )...picking a VP would have been done some time ago. Really, if the POTUS candidate is solid, how much credence does anyone give to the VP pick?

Perhaps some (many?) of the potential candidates don't want to hitch their political future to the potential epic loss looming on the horizon, just an actual, non-scripted interview and/or debate away...

$.02 worth...

Boss

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Biden doesn't really care who his Veep winds up being, he just cares who can help unite the Dems behind him and who brings the largest and most enthusiastic cadre of Dems to Biden's effort to get himself elected President.

Yep. He will just read whatever they put on his que card.

But there's a battle going on behind the scenes...

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But it's just as likely that Democrats are in some fierce backfighting. After all, nobody thinks Joe Biden's really going to be president, the closest thing to president should Biden be elected would be the vice president. Democrats know about power for the taking when they see it.
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What we have here are the Obamatons advocating for Susan Rice, the Bernie-ites advocating for Karen Bass, and Kamala herself, who seems close to the Hillary Clinton machine, being the third faction.

I hear Tim Kaine is available. He's a girl and already knows how to be a VP candidate.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
He will just read whatever they put on his que card.

A commentator the other day brought up a very good point: For a politician with 50 yrs. experience...he sure needs a lot of teleprompter/scripting.

One would hope someone with that level experience would have it DOWN PAT, especially at this point in the game, and be able to speak and answer a myriad of questions clearly and succinctly.

A point that will no doubt continue to be driven home. All part of what has been point out many times already...

Boss

I’m Joe Biden and I’m not Trump. That’s a slogan he can remember.

interesting the skipped mentioning Val Demings

KH is a Californian. CA is in the bag.

VD is from Florida which is considered a must win.

and a former cop so they would play that up from a law and order angle

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Originally posted by Sig209:
interesting the skipped mentioning Val Demings

KH is a Californian. CA is in the bag.

VD is from Florida which is considered a must win.

and a former cop so they would play that up from a law and order angle

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Uh, I don't think law and order is in their vocabulary right now.

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Originally posted by SIG228:

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Originally posted by Sig209:
interesting the skipped mentioning Val Demings

KH is a Californian. CA is in the bag.

VD is from Florida which is considered a must win.

and a former cop so they would play that up from a law and order angle

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Uh, I don't think law and order is in their vocabulary right now.

i disagree. they aren't stupid. they know the riots will be an issue with moderate voters. VD could make them appear to be addressing that deficiency.

they're not going in the direction of the Bernie Sanders / BLM / Occupy dems. those 'voters' are in the bag for "D". they hand the election to Trump if they do that.

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Originally posted by Boss1:
A commentator the other day brought up a very good point: For a politician with 50 yrs. experience...he sure needs a lot of teleprompter/scripting.

Biden has NEVER been a leader. He's always been a follower and bends with the wind like the most fragile blade of grass. Just check his record. If you can find it.

His short list is all so bad I can't figure out which one I "hope" he picks.

Kamala Harris would be a stark contrast to Mike Pence

I guess if I had to pick a "favorite", it would be Elizabeth Warren just so the DEM base would go nuts.

Second choice - Susan Rice so we could hammer her nonstop w things like her 20 Jan 2017 email

Kamala Harris would get a lot of REPs even more fired up, but I wouldn't want even the slightest possibility that she would have a path to the Presidency.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I’m Joe Biden and I’m not Trump. That’s a slogan he can remember.

Are we sure about that?

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Originally posted by Sig209:

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Originally posted by SIG228:

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Originally posted by Sig209:
interesting the skipped mentioning Val Demings

KH is a Californian. CA is in the bag.

VD is from Florida which is considered a must win.

and a former cop so they would play that up from a law and order angle

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Uh, I don't think law and order is in their vocabulary right now.

i disagree. they aren't stupid. they know the riots will be an issue with moderate voters. VD could make them appear to be addressing that deficiency.

they're not going in the direction of the Bernie Sanders / BLM / Occupy dems. those 'voters' are in the bag for "D". they hand the election to Trump if they do that.

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IMO, that ship has sailed. If BIden wanted to be about law and order, he missed the opportunity.

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Originally posted by jljones:
I hear Tim Kaine is available. He's a girl and already knows how to be a VP candidate.

You have just insulted every girl in the country.

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Originally posted by Sig209:
interesting the skipped mentioning Val Demings

KH is a Californian. CA is in the bag.

VD is from Florida which is considered a must win.

and a former cop so they would play that up from a law and order angle

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As a long time resident of Central Florida, let me fill in some blanks for you. Demmings is a POS. She is uniformly hated by almost everyone who has ever come in contact with her. She was 'appointed' chief of police specifically because she was black and a woman, and because her right hand at OPD was the biggest bull dike in the department. She left the OPD to pursue her congressional seat because she'd all but destroyed the department, leaving it with morale that was totally in the toilet. I know a bunch of OPD cops, and all of them hate her. So how did she get elected to Congress? Simple. They redistricted several voting districts, and gave her a newly defined district that's 80%+ black to run in. Biden selecting her as a VP would in no way guarantee him anything in Florida. I would tend to argue it would actually hurt him here.

As for the other options, they truly are the definition of a 'shit show'. Biden already said his pick will be a woman of color, so that leaves Liawatha on the sidelines. How about Karen Bass? The woman's an unknown among a majority of the country, and once people do begin to get to know who she is (i.e. an unabashed communist), her appeal will go from zero to negative. So how about Susan Rice? One word...Benghazi. How about four more... Ty Woods, Glen Doherty, Chris Stevens, and Sean Smith. Plaster those names and faces all over her and she's toast. That and she has zero history as an elected official meaning she hasn't a clue how to campaign. That leaves us with Willie Brown's knob polisher. Unfortunately for her, she put a whole lotta black folk in jail, many under rather shady circumstances. Then she comes from California, an environment most people in the country do not look favorably on.

As I said at the beginning, this whole this is the definition of a 'shit show' and I'm absolutely loving it.

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I’m Joe Biden and I’m not Trump. That’s a slogan he can remember.

Are we sure about that?

Lol depends on how bad his super short term memory loss is. In which case the slogan goes: I’m Joe Biden and I’m not.

That slogan might just be one creepy joe could handle.