Biden feared "Clinton would stop at nothing" campaign

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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.

It is certain to fuel the bitter infighting in the Democrats which has lasted since they were shocked by Clinton's defeat a year ago Wednesday.

Biden offers little direct personal criticism of Clinton but his message is unmistakable.

'My numbers on trustworthiness, honesty, and empathy were as high as they had ever been. And I was strongest where the most formidable candidate, Hillary Clinton, was weakest: the key swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida,'
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he writes.

Clinton was the only opposition to him - and what he does not say in the book is what 'stop at nothing' would mean.

But at the time his bereaved family was being torn apart by his surviving son Hunter's bitter split from his wife amid accusations of blowing a fortune on drugs and sex with prostitutes.

Hunter then started a new relationship, with his brother Beau's widow.

Biden is to start promoting the book with an appearance on the NBC's Today show on Monday and an extended book tour which will see him appear on stage with big names including Stephen Colbert, Aaron Sorkin, the writer of the West Wing, and Maria Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger's ex-wife and a member of the Kennedy clan.

The tour is likely to be seen as part of a move towards another run for the White House by Biden, whose book does not rule one out or suggest that his public life is over.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5060025/Joe-Biden-Hillary-backers-stop-nothing.html
It even includes a detailed list of policies which he would have run on.

And it makes clear how Biden was convinced he would have beaten Clinton, who he called a 'vulnerable' candidate.

By early August of 2015, three months after Beau succumbed to brain cancer, Biden's ratings were higher than any other candidate in the race, despite the fact that he had not made an official decision to run.

The campaigns being run at the time, he writes, were 'dreary, small and personal' - another hit at Clinton's effort for the White House.
 
the hive would have marshaled all resources to protect the queen.
Biden would have been smeared and still lost to the corrupt Clinton campaign
 
noise said:
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.

It is certain to fuel the bitter infighting in the Democrats which has lasted since they were shocked by Clinton's defeat a year ago Wednesday.

Biden offers little direct personal criticism of Clinton but his message is unmistakable.

he writes.

Clinton was the only opposition to him - and what he does not say in the book is what 'stop at nothing' would mean.

But at the time his bereaved family was being torn apart by his surviving son Hunter's bitter split from his wife amid accusations of blowing a fortune on drugs and sex with prostitutes.

Hunter then started a new relationship, with his brother Beau's widow.

Biden is to start promoting the book with an appearance on the NBC's Today show on Monday and an extended book tour which will see him appear on stage with big names including Stephen Colbert, Aaron Sorkin, the writer of the West Wing, and Maria Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger's ex-wife and a member of the Kennedy clan.

The tour is likely to be seen as part of a move towards another run for the White House by Biden, whose book does not rule one out or suggest that his public life is over.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5060025/Joe-Biden-Hillary-backers-stop-nothing.html
It even includes a detailed list of policies which he would have run on.

And it makes clear how Biden was convinced he would have beaten Clinton, who he called a 'vulnerable' candidate.

By early August of 2015, three months after Beau succumbed to brain cancer, Biden's ratings were higher than any other candidate in the race, despite the fact that he had not made an official decision to run.

The campaigns being run at the time, he writes, were 'dreary, small and personal' - another hit at Clinton's effort for the White House.
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How date he write a book, he is just trying to stay relevant. :)
 
noise said:
the hive would have marshaled all resources to protect the queen.
Biden would have been smeared and still lost to the corrupt Clinton campaign
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Does it bother you that she would have been this way?

I don't doubt it, but at best she would match Trump's ruthlessness in this regard. He hasn't cared a bit about whose careers he has basically destroyed to get where he is.
 
Biden's family were also confident he could take the presidency, he writes, saying they believed 'I was best equipped to finish the job Barack and I had started.'

In fact, if there were any doubts the VP would falter, they came from President Obama himself.

'In January 2015 the president was convinced I could not beat Hillary, and he worried that a long primary fight would split the party and leave the Democratic nominee vulnerable in the general election,' Biden writes.

Around that time, Obama had become 'preoccupied' with the question of whether Biden would run and had been 'subtly weighing in against' it.

'Barack and I knew, coverage in the West Wing would shift from his agenda to my chances. I also believe he had concluded that Hillary Clinton was almost certain to be the nominee,' he says.

By then, Clinton was already preparing to launch her campaign and became vigilant of Biden's moves.

He reveals a meeting the two had - and details how she offered an implied threat that she could not control her own supporters.

During a meeting in February 2015 at his Naval Observatory residence, she 'had an entirely new agenda' Biden writes.

'She started off telling me what a good vice president I had been, how much I had done for the country in my career...Then she pretty much asked me straight up if I was going to jump in.'

Biden told her he was not in a position to make the decision at the moment. His son's health was deteriorating but he did not tell her the full extent of the cancer the former soldier was battling.

But if I ran, I told her, I would not run a negative campaign. She said the same,' he writes, but then she said: 'Although some of our supporters can get out of hand sometimes, it would not be me.'

She went on to sing his praises saying she had a great deal of admiration and affection for him, but by then, Biden says, 'the opposition research had already started on me.'

He does not say who it was from but he writes elsewhere of the 'Clinton machine' which Obama barely beat.

Biden reveals how he became the target of a political hit job in the media after a there was a story published about the community policing crime bill that he had created under Bill Clinton's term that the president had once heralded as a great step forward.

'He was now calling it a big mistake. That was followed by a story alleging I was cozy with the banking and credit card industry when I was a senator,' Biden writes.

'And Clinton backers sent the signal that they would not stop at voting records and policies if I did get in the race
 
An executive in the entertainment industry had insisted that I had more support in the Hollywood community than Hillary. He said I could raise money without a problem. George Clooney got in touch with Steve Ricchetti soon after that,' Biden writes.

Clooney told his chief of staff: 'I love Joe Biden, and if he decided to do this I will step up with any and all assistance I can provide. I think I've proved I'm pretty good fund-raiser, so that's all anyone asks me to do. But I am invested in this. I am willing to take a campaign role if you want me.'

Clooney went on to become a major Clinton supporter, but his intervention suggests that she was his second choice.

Biden continued to gain momentum in the polls which ultimately scared Clinton's team.

'The head of AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) was saying nice things about me, which was causing great consternation at Hillary's headquarters,' he writes.

Her team began placing calls to his aides which he described as 'fishing expeditions,' in which they would ask:
'So what are you guys up to? This isn't for real, is it?'


In October 2015, Politico published a story titled: 'EXCLUSIVE: Biden himself leaked word of his son's dying wish,' which stated: 'Joe Biden has been making his 2016 deliberations all about his late son since August.'

'I should have seen this coming, I guess,' Biden writes. 'The Politico story exceeded even my worst expectations of what the opposition was going to be like. The idea that I would use my son's death to political advantage was sickening.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5060025/Joe-Biden-Hillary-backers-stop-nothing.html
 
wow!!
the full article is at the link - a lot of stuff about how Joe was wracked with indecision
( he didn't even want to be VP) and how the Clinton machine would gone after him and his familiy
 
Let every liberal know, whether they wish us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the jailing of Crooked Hillary.

This much we pledge, and more.
 
Getin the ring said:
When Joe Biden Thinks thinks you are a looney tune, you know you have issues
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the Clinton slime machine was primed and ready to go full bore on Uncle Joe and his family.

One (of many) things stands out. Clooney .
he would rather have backed Joe then Clinton - despite his $gazillion a plate dinner for Clinton.

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^ Bernie supporters throw money at Clinton motorcade on way to Clooney's fundraiser

http://ktla.com/2016/04/17/bernie-s...w-dollar-bills-at-hillary-clintons-motorcade/
Both of the Clinton-Clooney fundraisers benefit the Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising effort for the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee and a host of state Democratic parties.

To co-host the event, a couple was asked to donate $353,400 to the fund. Single tickets cost $33,400.
 
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