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@Just Joshin' best country in the history of genocide slavery and spending on never to be used weapons, illegal wars in 160 countries and most money spent upon healthcare with most people not getting healthcare...Bernie is a corrupt liar in office but is telling the truth mostly to his eager true believers.... AND USA is the best at borrowing 24 trillion dollars without taxing the rich who are getting rich off endless polluter oil war crime profiteering banksters zionism 

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Lack of distinguish accomplishments while being both a senator and VP for a lazy pResident. His "age" is not the factor here, but rather his possible sliding into dementia which the "fake news" media is covering up until they get him to beat Communist Bernie out of race, again. His running mate will reap the rewards, so they think.

 

 

 

Three reasons Joe Biden will never be president

by Byron York

 

Original Article

 

Joe Biden was sworn into the United States Senate on January 3, 1973.

 

What does 36 years in the Senate say about a politician? It says he is a senator -- not a president. So the first reason Biden will not become president is that no one who served 36 years in the Senate has ever become president. No one who served 30 years in the Senate has ever become president. No one who served 25 years in the Senate has ever become president. No one who served 20 years in the Senate has ever become president. No one who served 15 years in the Senate has ever become president.

 

A long career in the Senate is simply not a foundation for a successful run for the White House. The most recent political figure to realize that was Barack Obama, who was sworn into the Senate in 2005 and two years later was running for the presidency — and to get out of the Senate.

 

OK, put aside the Senate, Biden's supporters would say. What about his eight years as vice president? Certainly that could be the basis for a successful presidential run. But the second reason Biden will not become president is that the record of vice presidents on that score is not encouraging.

 

Fourteen vice presidents have become president. Of those, eight became president upon the death of the president. Of that group, some were later elected to the White House, but they were running for the office as the sitting president.

 

Others, such as George H.W. Bush, became president by running to succeed the president they served. They ran for president as the sitting vice president. When Bush did that, in 1988, it had not been done since 1836. It has not been done since.

 

In any event, that is not Biden's situation. He served eight years as vice president but did not run to succeed Obama. Now, he is running as a private citizen.

Only one president has gone from the vice presidency to private life and then to the presidency. Richard Nixon served as vice president in the 1950s, narrowly lost the 1960 presidential election, and then came back to win the presidency in 1968. That is Biden's hope — that a vice president can leave office and then, after a period outside government, return to win the White House.

 

Perhaps. But Nixon, who spent less than three years in the Senate, became vice president a few days after turning 40 and was sworn in as president at 56 — more than two decades younger than Biden, who will be 78 on Inauguration Day, 2021.

 

Finally, the third reason Biden will not be president is the "14-Year Rule." The idea of former George W. Bush speechwriter John McConnell, and popularized by writer Jonathan Rauch, it basically says that politicians have a strict sell-by date. "No one gets elected president who needs longer than 14 years to get from his or her first gubernatorial or Senate victory to either the presidency or the vice presidency," Rauch wrote. That has been true for a century.

 

Biden didn't even get close. It took him 36 years to get from his first Senate victory to the vice presidency. If he wins the presidency now, it would be 47 years from that first Senate swearing-in until Inauguration Day.

 

Of course, it's possible the 14-Year Rule, the "Too Long In The Senate Rule," and the "How Vice Presidents Become President Rule" might all be wrong in Biden's case. If so, he can frame this headline and hang it somewhere in the White House.

 

But don't bet on it.

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2 minutes ago, transplantbillsfan said:

Hmmmm...  talking about the General, eh?

 

@Deranged Rhino: "From the beginning you said it was a sure thing that Joe would win the nomination and beat Trump. 

 

You hit that hard, repeatedly (not that you wanted Joe, but that's how it would go) -- I told you that Joe had no chance.

 

And he doesn't. "

 

Question -- would Joe face Trump in the general or the primary? 

 

Yeah. Reading is hard. 

 

And you're still running from the actual question. Why is that? Is it because you know you can't answer it reasonably? 

 

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This was hilarious. 

 

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45 minutes ago, Foxx said:

@transplantbillsfan's boy. man, i would be proud of this.... swamp creature.

 

:10 in, "i'm about ready to slap you in the face"

 

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1237387978428813312

 

 

Great plan, Joe. Tell a blue-collar Michigan worker he's 'full of schitt' after you announced you're going to bring in Robert Francis to follow up on his promise to confiscate all the guns.

 

 

 

 

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@B-Man cute but not funny clowns tease bulls and squirt kids with water out of flowers....blueREDS still running are not Homer Red or Army National Guard....they lie about USA genocide globally...not funny to hear dementia corruption and half truths about illegal wars in 160 countries.... you are the worst kind of bot @B-Man to laugh at your own sick perverted "jokes"

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Just now, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

I'm stunned to read so many leftists trying to defend him today. Frum was trying to explain that it was the Joe they want in the race. Combative.

 

Because telling a Michigan union worker you want to slap him for calling you out on your lie is just the kind of winning strategy the Dem's need to take down Trump. :lol:

 

 

C'mon, Joe. Tell us about peace through green jobs! 

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