Anyone still think Biden is a favorite in the Democrat Party
for 2016? Maybe you should read this out of the NY Times:
Senator Charles E. Schumer,
Democrat of New York, used a speech to Iowa Democrats on Saturday night to
endorse Hillary Rodham Clinton for
president, another indication of how quickly the party is coalescing behind the
former secretary of state.
Speaking in the state that helped lift President Obama’s
campaign and dashed Mrs. Clinton’s hopes in the 2008 caucuses, Mr. Schumer said
the time was right that year for Mr. Obama.
“2016 is Hillary’s time,” Mr. Schumer declared at the Iowa
Democratic Party’s Jefferson Jackson Dinner. “And our nation will be all the
better for it.”
While Mr. Schumer’s support for his former Senate colleague
was not surprising, his endorsement one year after the 2012 presidential
election underscores how much the Democratic Party elders want Mrs. Clinton to
enter the race.
Editor’s
notes: Keep in mind that
Biden is the most undistinguished VP since the days of Eisenhower and whoever was his
VP. In the 2008 primary season, more than 36 million votes were
cast, total, in the Democrat primaries. Hillary received 18 million; Obama received 18 million plus and Joe
Biden, running for the nomination, totaled 68,000 votes. In other words, the Democrat Party wants him for a national
leader as badly as it wants Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.
The Democrat nomination belongs to Hillary for the
asking . . . . period.
