“My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president!”
— Vice President Joseph R. Biden, campaigning in Youngstown, Ohio, on May 16, 2012
Yes, that much is true: The plagiarist with the slow-grow hair plugs and the chipmunk fake teeth and the made-up stories about heroics on the football field who quietly won five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War really did become vice president. And this much is clear: He took the gig, after something like 87 years in the Senate, because he knew in his tiny heart of hearts that that was the end of the line.
But no, Ma and Pa Biden were wrong: Their wunderboy Joey, despite his hardscrabble Scranton roots and spectacular work ethic (he did hold an actual job for some 18 months before going on the government dole 43 years ago) will not grow up to be the president of the United States. He’s already tried twice, in 1988 and again in 2008 (the latter after giving voters a full generation to forget why they didn’t like him the first time around).
Still, something odd is happening. Despite Jumpin’ Joe’s now-forgotten assertions that he has no intention of running for president, everyone has started talking about whether Jumpin’ Joe will run for president.
The chatter started right around the time then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton got sick, fell down, bumped her head and disappeared for six weeks. (You skeptics out there can just stifle: She really DID bump her head; didn’t you see CNN report that the blood clot that sent her to the hospital was “related to a concussion she suffered this month, her spokesman, Philippe Reines, said.” We’re getting it straight from her spokesman, people, how can it not be true!?)
Suddenly, all this talk swirled that Joey was going to run in 2016, you know, pick up the mantle of his mental mentor and try to see if he could top the $10 trillion in debt his boss is on pace to rack up. “Biden not shying away from 2016 speculation,” gasped MSNBC. “Need Proof That Joe Biden Is Running for President?” wondered National Journal (note to budding editors out there: Question marks bring clicks — Well, is he? Is he!?!).
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