Last week might have been all Trump all the time, but Sunday’s print edition of the New York Times is shaping up to be the Biden 2016 issue.
First of all is a report by Amy Chozick, “Joe Biden Said to Be Taking New Look at Presidential Run.”
Vice President Joe Biden is said to be taking a new look at a presidential campaign in 2016. http://t.co/ehem5cCEOr pic.twitter.com/KPQHO5irEL
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) August 1, 2015
Second up, and causing much more of a stir, is Maureen Dowd’s column, “What Would Beau Do?”
Joe Biden is thinking about jumping into the 2016 race, @NYTimesDowd writes. http://t.co/lRTVjikGGO pic.twitter.com/bb8IuK0U40
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 1, 2015
Joe Biden in 2016: What Would Beau Do? http://t.co/x0fKBpmsdK
— Maureen Dowd (@maureendowd) August 1, 2015
Must-read NOW: @NYTimesDowd says Beau asked @VP to run for POTUS in '16 & a lot more Biden reporting in her Sunday column. #gamechange
— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) August 1, 2015
No Maureen Dowd column is a must-read EVER, but we have to admit the first 10 or so should-have-been-cut paragraphs comparing Hillary Clinton and Tom Brady are entertaining, if utterly irrelevant.
Two controlling superstars with mutable hair and militant fans, married to two magnetic superstars who can make a gazillion an hour for flashing their faces and who have been known to stir up trouble.
A pair of team captains craving a championship doing something surreptitious that they never needed to do to win.
It turns out Tom Brady and Hillary Clinton have more in common than you would think.
Forget all that, skip down about 572 more paragraphs, and you have the essence of Dowd’s piece:
When Beau was dying, the family got rubber bracelets in blue — his favorite color — that said “WWBD,” What Would Beau Do, honoring the fact that Beau was a stickler for doing the right thing.
Joe Biden knows what Beau wants. Now he just has to decide if it’s who he is.
Who he is? Dowd does know that Biden has run twice before, right?
I'm old enough to remember that Maureen Dowd helped laugh Joe Biden out of the 1988 race: http://t.co/h2D7lRo4zi pic.twitter.com/VdmCWBobqS
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) August 1, 2015
Some reporters looking into it find little or no support for WWBD-Biden-will-run story after NYT Dowd column…
— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 1, 2015
If Biden were just floating a trial balloon, he wouldn't have wanted it to be known that Beau asked him on deathbed to run.
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) August 1, 2015
having lost a daughter myself, if @JoeBiden decides to run he will be bullet proof. there is nothing anyone can say that will hurt him more.
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) August 1, 2015
It’s a very, very personal piece — so where did Dowd get all of her inside information?
Given details/sensitivity of the subject, fact that Bidens haven't denied claims in Dowd column offers possible clue about its sourcing…
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) August 1, 2015
So who gave Maureen Dowd the details in this piece on Joe Biden?http://t.co/8iNAVVET8a
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) August 1, 2015
In Chappaqua she rages,
As her minions scuttle.
For Joe to leak it Maureen
Shows Biden isn't subtle.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 1, 2015
MoDowd is quoting Biden directly which makes him her source, right? Biden: What Would Beau Do? http://t.co/QfWcCydps7 pic.twitter.com/ALRfIKuPxb
— katie rosman (@katierosman) August 2, 2015
What if this was Obama's plan all along? Let HRC get out there, then when the time is right, RELEASE THE BIDEN…
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 1, 2015
RELEASE THE BIDEN @toddlemmon: @TheRickWilson courtesy of my daughter! pic.twitter.com/Ldfwv7fm4N
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 2, 2015
Talked to a variety of sources close to BidenWorld, And so far, nothing but cold water being poured on this buzz
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) August 1, 2015
Cold water? Politico’s Glenn Thrush, for one, says Biden 2016 isn’t going to happen.
Joe Biden (while being a natural born bullshit artist) is the nicest most sincere and menschy national pol I've ever covered.
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) August 1, 2015
3 reasons I think Biden won't 1) he'd screw Obama with whom he's truly close 2) it's too late 3) why not exit as (arguably) best veep ever?
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) August 1, 2015
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