Former Vice President Joe Biden Is Getting Ready To Enter The 2020 Presidential Race

The Hill: Exclusive: Biden almost certain to enter 2020 race

Former Vice President Joe Biden is almost certain to enter the 2020 presidential race, according to sources familiar with his plans.

“It’s pretty clear he’s jumping in,” said one source with direct knowledge of the would-be campaign’s moves, adding that Biden is “95 percent there.”

In recent days, Biden has sought to build support from grass-roots activists and is specifically asking donors for their help in the lead-up to an announcement, according to sources.

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WNU Editor: He was very clear two years ago that he regretted not running .... Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Regrets Not Running For The Presidency (March 25, 2017). My money is on him taking the plunge for 2020.

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Begins His Book Tour

Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: Hillary's backers 'would stop at nothing' says Joe Biden. Ex-VP reveals he feared deeply personal campaign as his family mourned dead son and were roiled by sex scandal - but says he'd have WON if he'd run

* In his new memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, Joe Biden reveals he did not want to be vice president after he was asked by Obama
* The former VP also details how he and his family were confident he could win the 2016 presidency, but Obama 'was almost certain' Hillary would be the nominee
* Biden had wrestled with the idea of running before and after the death of son Beau, who had encouraged him to enter the race for years
* He writes how in early 2015, months before Beau's death, Hillary Clinton was already preparing to launch her campaign and became vigilant of Biden's moves
* The summer after his son died, he began to make headway in the media he began to receive messages from Hillary through the press, he writes
* 'And Clinton backers sent the signal that they would not stop at voting records and policies if I did get in the race,' Biden reveals
* He does not mention scandal then tearing his family apart - his surviving son Hunter's split from his wife amid claims of drugs and prostitutes
* Hunter Biden is now in a relationship with his brother Beau's widow

Joe Biden knew he was capable of beating Hillary Clinton in the presidential race - but decided not to run fearing a 'stop at nothing' campaign by her backers, the former vice president has revealed in his new memoir.

In Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, set to be released November 14, Biden reveals how he wrestled with the idea of running for office before and after his son Beau's death, and even admits he did not want to be Obama's vice president in 2008.

The book documents Biden's life as President Obama's tenure drew to a close and the media's focus had shifted to the prospects of the presidency.

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Update #1: Joe Biden Talks About His New Memoir, 'Promise Me, Dad' (New York Times)
Update #2: Joe Biden knew he could beat Hillary Clinton but feared negative campaign, he writes in new memoir (The Telegraph)

WNU Editor: He clearly did not want to confront the Clinton war machine .... and now that we know through Donna Brazille's book that the "fix was in" .... probably a smart move on the part of the former Vice President.. 

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Regrets Not Running For The Presidency

The Hill: Biden: I regret not being president

Former Vice President Joe Biden late Friday night voiced regret about his decision not to run for president, predicting if he had secured the Democratic nomination he could have won against Donald Trump.

"I had planned on running for president and although it would have been a very difficult primary, I think I could have won," he said. "I don't know, maybe not. But I thought I could have won."

"I had a lot of data and I was fairly confident that if I were the Democratic Party's nominee, I had a better than even chance of being president," Biden continued.

Biden explained that he didn't regret the time he was able to spend with his son Beau Biden, who later died after battling cancer.

“But do I regret not being president? Yes,” Biden said. "I was the best qualified."

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Update #1: Biden regrets not running: 'I could have won' (UPI)
Update #2: Biden says if he'd run for president in 2016 he could have won (AP)

WNU Editor: No offence to the Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden supporters, but Hillary Clinton was the best candidate that the Democrats had.

U.S. Vice President Biden: 'Liberal International World Order' Is At Risk Of Collapse

Time: Joe Biden Is Warning About the Collapse of the ‘World Order’ as He Says Goodbye

"This is a moment to lead boldly"

Vice President Joe Biden warned Wednesday that the “liberal international world order” is at risk of collapse, using his final speech to global leaders to frame the stakes on the world stage as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.

Biden urged leaders in Europe and the U.S. to defend democracies against dangers that he said include Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden, in remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland reported by CNBC, said Putin “has a different vision of the future,” and he accused the Russian leader of trying to “roll back decades of progress.”

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Joe Biden tells Davos: Russia 'trying to collapse' liberal order -- BBC
Biden calls Russia biggest threat to international order -- Reuters
Biden hits Putin's Russia in final address as VP -- AFP
Biden Takes Aim at Putin in Final 48 Hours as Vice President -- Bloomberg
In an epic final speech, Joe Biden warns that the progressive democratic world order is at risk of collapse -- CNBC
Biden Warns Of Russian Threat To World Order, Election Meddling -- RFE

U.S. Vice President Biden Gives His Analysis On Why Hillary Clinton Lost The U.S. Presidential Election

L.A. Times: As Democrats ponder their future, Joe Biden makes a plea for a focus on the middle class

Over a career in elected public office lasting more than 46 years, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has seen campaigns from the rudimentary, family-run effort that first launched him unexpectedly to the U.S. Senate as a 29-year-old to the sophisticated, data-driven juggernaut that helped elect him and Barack Obama twice to the nation’s highest offices.

But rarely has he trusted anything as much as his own gut instinct, attuned to the middle- and working-class sensibilities of his former neighbors in towns like Scranton, Pa., and Claymont, Del.

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Update: BIDEN: As I watched a Trump rally in October, I said, 'Son of a gun — we may lose this election' (Business Insider).

WNU Editor: You can tell that Vice President Biden now wishes he ran. On a side note .... the bitterness of this campaign is still resonating .... Bitter Clintons consider staying away from Trump inauguration and George W. Bush hasn't yet RSVPed – but Jimmy Carter WILL attend (Daily Mail).

You Know The U.S. Democrat Party Is In Trouble If These Are The Future Leaders Of The Party

The Hill: Biden: Obama, Pelosi, Schumer are the future leaders of Democratic Party

President Obama, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Joe Biden are the future leaders of the Democratic Party, the vice president said Sunday.

Biden acknowledged that the Democrats have had a hard time finding a direction after Hillary Clinton lost last month's president election to Donald Trump.
“Well, like after every presidential election where the party loses, there is no single leader," Biden said on CNN's "State of the Union."

"There are voices that hopefully will be heard."

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WNU Editor: But Vice President Biden is correct on this point .... Biden keeps door open for 2020 run against Trump: "who knows where we're going to be" (CNN).

U.S. Vice President Biden: ‘I Would Have Been The Best President’

ABC News: Joe Biden: ‘I Would Have Been The Best President’

Vice President Joe Biden says he “would have been the best president” if he had mounted a successful campaign in the 2016 election, but that forgoing the race was the right decision for his family.

Speaking with “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview that aired today, Biden said he had planned to run but changed course only after his eldest son Beau died last May.

“No one should ever seek the presidency unless they're able to devote their whole heart and soul and passion into just doing that,” he said. “And, Beau was my soul. I just wasn't ready to be able to do that. But, so, my one regret is my Beau's not here. I don't have any other regrets.”

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Update #1: Joe Biden: "I would have been the best president" (CBS News)
Update #2: Biden: 'I Would Have Been the Best President' (US News and World Report)

WNU Editor: Sighhh .... time for him to retire.

Vice President Biden: U.S. Feels 'Overwhelming Frustration' With Israeli Government

Reuters: U.S. feels 'overwhelming frustration' with Israeli government - Biden

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Monday acknowledged "overwhelming frustration" with the Israeli government and said the systemic expansion of Jewish settlements was moving Israel toward a dangerous "one-state reality" and in the wrong direction.

Addressing the J Street lobby group in Washington, Biden said despite disagreements with Israel over settlements or the Iran nuclear deal, the United States had an obligation to push Israel toward a two-state solution to end the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

"We have an overwhelming obligation, notwithstanding our sometimes overwhelming frustration with the Israeli government, to push them as hard as we can toward what they know in their gut is the only ultimate solution, a two-state solution, while at the same time be an absolute guarantor of their security," Biden said.

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WNU Editor: I suspect that many in Israel feel the same way towards the White House.

More News On Vice President Biden;s Remarks That The U.S. Feels 'Overwhelming Frustration' With Israeli Government

Biden: 'Overwhelming frustration' with Israeli gov't -- AP
Joe Biden blasts Benjamin Netanyahu, government for moving Israel in ‘wrong direction’ -- Washington Times
US feels 'overwhelming frustration' with Israeli government, says Biden -- The Guardian
Biden slams Netanyahu hours after Jerusalem attack -- FOX News

Vice President Biden On Middle East Trip: US Will ‘Squeeze the Heart' Out Of The Islamic State

Voice of America: Biden Vows US Will ‘Squeeze the Heart' Out of IS

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden kicked off a five-day trip to the Middle East Monday, vowing that the United States would "squeeze the heart" out of Islamic State and destroy it.

Biden visited U.S. airmen stationed at the Al-Dhafra Air Base near the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi, as drones taxied down the runway.

He dismissed Islamic State insurgents as "criminals and cowards." Biden, using an Arabic name for Islamic State, told the airmen, "We have to squeeze the heart of Daesh in Iraq and Syria so they can't continue to pump their poison in the region and around the world."

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In first stop on big Middle East trip, Biden vows U.S., allies will ’squeeze the heart’ of ISIS -- AP
Biden rules out military solution in Syria -- AFP
Biden lands in UAE with ISIL, Iran and Syria on the agenda -- The National
Biden Says U.S. Will Wipe Out The Evil That Is Islamic State -- Bloomberg
US 'must squeeze the heart out of ISIS' -- News 24
Biden visits Shaikh Zayed Grand Mosque -- Gulf News

U.S. Vice President Biden: 'I Regret Not Running For President Every Day'

The Hill: Biden regrets not running for president 'every day'

Vice President Biden said Wednesday he regrets not running for president in 2016, but stressed it was ultimately the right call.

“I regret it every day but it was the right decision for my family and for me and I plan on staying deeply involved,” he said in an interview with Hartford, Conn., NBC affiliate WVIT.

It’s one of the first times Biden has publicly conveyed remorse about not jumping into the race to succeed President Obama.

Biden agonized over the decision for months during the late summer and early fall following the death of his son, Beau, from brain cancer.

But after road testing his campaign message and holding dozens of meetings with advisers and family members, he chose not to run, saying it was too late to mount a viable campaign.

Update #1: Biden says he regrets not running for president 'every day' -- Politico
Update #2: Joe Biden on 2016 decision: 'I regret it every day' -- CNN

WNU Editor: He should regret nothing. His decision to not run was the right decision, and he can now walk away knowing that he did his duty and that he is now free do something else.

Secret Service Investigating Drive-By Shooting Outside Vice President Biden's Delaware Residence

FOX News: Shots fired Saturday night near Biden's Delaware home

WNU Editor: An assassination attempt? A terrorist attack by a lone gunman? No one in authority is talking.

More News On Saturday Night's Shooting Outside Vice President Biden's Delaware Residence

Shots fired near Vice President Biden's Delaware residence -- Reuters
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Gunshots fired outside VP Joe Biden's Delaware home -- CBS
Shots fired near Biden's Delaware home -- The Hill
Shots Fired Near Biden’s House, Secret Service Probing -- Bloomberg Businessweek
No Indication Biden's House Targeted in Shooting, Sources Say -- ABC News
Secret Service investigating drive-by shooting outside Joe Biden’s house -- RT
Shots fired outside US vice president's home -- Al Jazeera

Another Apology From U.S.Vice President Biden

Vice President of the U.S. Joe Biden addresses a high-level summit on strengthening international peace operations during the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York September 26, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Andrew Gombert/Pool

Biden Issues Second Apology, To United Arab Emirates, Over Comments -- Washington Post

SANLIURFA, Turkey — Vice President Biden apologized on Sunday for the second time in two days, in this instance to the United Arab Emirates, for comments he made suggesting that the United States’ Arab allies armed and funded terrorists in Syria.

The furor over the comments, made during a foreign policy address at Harvard University last week, have exposed deep rifts between the United States and its regional allies over who is to blame for the rise of the Islamic State and how to go about confronting it, underscoring the fragility of the coalition formed to fight the extremist group.

The White House said Biden telephoned Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and the most prominent Emirate leader, to say that the vice president did not intend to imply that the UAE supported terrorists.

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UAE says Biden apologizes for any implication it supported militants -- Reuters
Biden calls UAE prince to clarify remarks on Syria -- AP
Biden 'clarifies' comments implying UAE support for extremists -- The Guardian
Biden issues second apology of weekend, after offending US allies in fight to destroy Islamic State -- FOX News
UAE 'amazed' by Joe Biden's Syria remarks -- Al Jazeera
UAE says 'astonished' by Biden's comments on terror financing -- Arabian Business
Humbled Biden apologizes to UAE after accusing it of terrorism funding -- RT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Apologizes To Turkey Over Claims That They Have Assisted The Islamic State

Vice President Joe Biden Apologizes To Turkey; UAE Mad, Too -- CNN

(CNN) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to Turkey for comments he made last week that Middle Eastern allies are partly to blame for the strengthening of ISIS.

The United Arab Emirates have also asked Biden for a "clarification" of his remarks.

The problem appears to have originated during an appearance last week at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University when Biden spoke about Turkey, the UAE, other Middle Eastern allies, and the threat posed by the so-called Islamic State terror group, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

Biden told attendees that the militant Islamist group had been inadvertently strengthened by actions allies took to help opposition groups fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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Biden Apologizes To Turkey’s Erdogan -- Washington Post
Biden apologizes to Turkish president in phone call -- USA Today/AP
Biden apologizes to Turkish President Erdogan for saying Turkey allowed foreign fighters into Syria -- FOX News
Biden apologizes to Turkish president for ISIS remarks -- RT
Biden Apologizes To Turkey's President For Comments About ISIS -- Business Insider
Gaffe watch: Did Joe Biden just do it again? -- CSM
Biden Apologizes to Erdogan After Reports He Criticized Turkey -- Bloomberg Businessweek
UAE says 'amazed' by Joe Biden Syria remarks -- Al Jazeera

My Comment: As I had mentioned a few days ago that Vice President Joe Biden's remarks were not helpful .... he has come around to the same realization. but on a side note .... there is a small element of truth to what Biden said.

U.S. Vice President Biden: The Post-World War II Order Is 'Literally Fraying At The Seams'

Biden: International Order 'Literally Fraying At The Seams' -- Weekly Standard

Speaking at the John F. Kennedy Forum at Harvard Kennedy School in Boston, Massachusetts last night, Vice President Joe Bidengave an extensive rundown of foreign policy challenges and crises that the world and the Obama administration are facing today. Although the vice president expressed confidence in President Obama's policies and leadership, he painted a rather bleak picture of the modern world, quoting as he often does Irish poet William Butler Yeats:

Folks, “all’s changed, changed utterly. A terrible beauty has been born.” Those are the words written by an Irish poet William Butler Yeats about the Easter Rising in 1916 in Ireland. They were meant to describe the status of the circumstance in Ireland at that time. But I would argue that in recent years, they better describe the world as we see it today because all has changed. The world has changed.

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My Comment: And it is all happening under his watch .... a point that he conveniently does not mention.

U.S. Vice President Biden Blames U.S. Allies In The Middle East For The Rise Of The Islamic State

Biden Blames US Allies In Middle East For Rise Of ISIS -- RT

US Vice-President Joe Biden has accused America’s key allies in the Middle East of allowing the rise of the Islamic State (IS), saying they supported extremists with money and weapons in their eagerness to oust the Assad regime in Syria.

America’s “biggest problem” in Syria is its regional allies, Biden told students at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University on Thursday.

“Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria,” he said, explaining that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were “so determined to take down Assad,” that in a sense they started a “proxy Sunni-Shia war” by pouring “hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons” towards anyone who would fight against Assad.

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Biden Blames US Allies in Middle East for Rise of ISIL -- Al Manar
US, allies face ‘long fight' against ISIL, Biden says -- Today's Zaman
‘Biden tries to distance US from the mess in the Mideast’ -- Annie Machon, RT

My Comment: There is a lot of blame to pass around .... but I doubt that these remarks are going to be helpful in fighting the present day fight. This is all politics for back home .... after-all .... U.S. Congressional elections are only a few weeks away.

Vice President Biden Vows To Chase The Islamic State To Hell

Biden's Warning To ISIS Militants: 'We Will Follow Them To The Gates Of Hell' -- CNN

(CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued a sharp warning to ISIS militants, saying after the United States is done grieving the death of two American journalists, their killers will have to answer for their actions.

"They should know we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice," he forcefully told an audience at an event on the New Hampshire-Maine border. "Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside."

Biden opened his remarks in memory of Steven Sotloff, the journalist who was beheaded by ISIS militants Tuesday, two weeks after James Foley was executed in the same horrific manner on video. Foley was from New Hampshire, while Sotloff lived there for boarding school.

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Biden to Islamic State: We will follow you ‘to the gates of hell’ -- Washington Post
Sotloff beheading: Biden vows to chase IS to 'gates of hell' -- BBC
Biden: We'll follow Islamic State to 'gates of hell' -- USA Today
Vice President Biden promises to follow ISIS to 'gates of hell' as Muslims worldwide protest jihadist group -- New York Daily News
Joe Biden vows to chase Islamic State to 'gates of hell.' Does he mean it? -- Peter Grier, CSM

My Comment: I thought George Bush was the cowboy.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden In Kiev For Talks

Biden In Ukraine As Tensions Remain High In Country's East -- Voice of America

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Ukraine for talks with the acting president and prime minister as the situation in the country's east remains tense despite a deal reached last week in Geneva aimed at easing the crisis.

Biden's trip to Kyiv, the highest level visit from a U.S. official since the start of the crisis, was born out of discussions with President Barack Obama, said an administration official briefing reporters on Biden’s plane.

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Vice President Biden to Meet Ukraine President, Prime Minister In Kiev -- Reuters
Biden dispatched to Ukraine after Easter shootout kills three -- Daily Mail
Joe Biden Arrives in Ukraine as U.S. Weighs New Russia Sanctions -- WSJ
Biden Visits Ukraine To Offer Energy, Economic Aid -- NPR
Biden arrives in Ukraine to show U.S. support as crisis with Russia continues -- Washington Post
Biden Arrives in Ukraine as Peace Falls Apart -- US News and World Report
Biden in Ukraine as Russia accuses Kiev of breaking deal -- USA Today
U.S. Vice President Biden Starts Visit To Ukraine -- Radio Free Europe

Was Vice President Biden Right About Iraq?

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki (L) walks beside U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (C) as Biden arrives at the press centre of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad January 23, 2010. Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh is at right. Credit: Reuters/Iraqi Government/Handout

Joe Biden Was Right About Dividing Iraq -- James Kitfield , Defense One

In his new book Duty: Memoir of a Secretary at War, Robert Gates memorably impugns Joe Biden’s judgment as “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Central to his argument is Biden’s opposition to the “troop surge” that President Bush and then-Defense Secretary Gates launched in 2007 to bolster a shaky government in Baghdad and save Iraq from a sectarian civil war.

Biden, then a senator, championed a more federal system explicitly allowed by the Iraqi constitution (at the insistence of the Kurds), devolving power from the central government in Baghdad to the provinces. Although Biden denied it at the time, his proposal would almost certainly have led to the de facto soft partition of Iraq into three autonomous regions dominated by Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds. A similar approach in the 1990s patched together Bosnia out of the detritus of the Balkans civil war between Serbs, Croats, and Muslims. In a 2007 op-ed, Biden warned, “If the United States can’t put this federalism idea on track, we will have no chance for a political settlement in Iraq and, without that, no chance for leaving Iraq without leaving chaos behind.”

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My Comment: James Kitfield is right on this one. When I first heard of then Senator Biden's proposal of a divided Iraq I greeted it with skepticism and doubt. With hindsight .... putting in place a federated style of government for Iraq was probably the right thing to because the present style of government and system is clearly not working.

US Vice President Biden Begins Asia Visit While Trying To Defuse Bodrder Tensions

Biden To Reassure Japan, Calm US-China Tensions Over Air Defense Zone Row During East Asia Trip -- International Business Times

Vice President Joe Biden has embarked on a visit to Japan, China and South Korea this week, at a time when tensions are running high in the region after China established an air defense identification zone, or ADIZ, on Nov. 23 over the East China Sea, covering a set of islands also claimed by Japan.

The U.S., which has expressed “deep concern” over the ADIZ, has also voiced support for its ally, Japan, in the geopolitical row, with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel reiterating Washington’s policy that the mutual defense treaty between the U.S. and Japan applies to the East China Sea’s disputed set of islands.

“The U.S. government has made it clear that it is deeply concerned about China's establishment of the air defense identification zone, and that it will not accept China’s demands regarding operations in the zone,” Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference, Reuters reported.

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Biden begins Asia trip -- USA Today
Biden on delicate mission to defuse tensions in East Asia -- Reuters
Joe Biden to visit Japan, China as air zone dispute smolders -- CNN
VP Biden opens weeklong Asia trip with Tokyo stop -- Washington Post/AP
Biden Pushes Trade Pact as China Air Zone Overshadows Visit -- Bloomberg
Biden to visit DMZ while in South Korea -- AP
U.S. affirms support for Japan in islands dispute with China -- Reuters

My Comment: The U.S. has already shown it's hand to the Chinese on their new air defense zone. Vice President Biden's main problem will be trying to satisfy the Japanese who .... unlike the Americans .... have no interest in backing down.

Vice President Biden's "Image Of A Military Commander"

Biden: ‘My Image Of The Military Commander' Was 'Slim Pickens... On The Back Of An Atom Bomb' 'Yelling Yippee-Ki-Yay' -- CNS News

Vice President Joe Biden said that when he was first elected to the U.S. Senate back in 1972, his view of U.S. military commanders was epitomized by actor Slim Pickens in the movie “Dr. Strangelove,” riding an atomic bomb like a cowboy and “yelling yippee-ki-yay!”

In a speech focusing on foreign policy, delivered at New York University on Thursday, Biden said he ran for the Senate in 1972 “because I thought the policy we had in Vietnam, I didn't argue it as immoral, but I thought it just didn't make sense, the notion of dominoes and so on and so forth."

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My Comment: I am glad that he has changed his mind on the military. But what got my attention in this article is that he has been in Washington since 1972!!!!!!