It's The Joe Biden Appreciation Thread!!!

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By Nick Gass 3/31/15 7:54 AM EDT Updated 3/31/15 11:05 AM EDT

Ash Carter: I 'laughed' at Joe Biden video

Defense Secretary Ash Carter says he laughed when he saw the video of Vice President Joe Biden putting his hands on the shoulders of his wife, Stephanie, during his swearing-in ceremony last month.

“Oh, I laughed. I laughed. I laughed. They know each other extremely well, and we’re great friends with the Bidens,” he said in an interview aired Tuesday with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on the “Today” show. Carter was traveling to his high school alma mater for a speech on the future of the armed forces.

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Carter’s wife later said she was not offended by the vice president putting his hands on her shoulders and whispering in her ear, but Biden’s actions drew close scrutiny on social media and late-night talk shows.

In an interview with POLITICO last week, former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) praised Biden but said “he can’t keep his mouth shut or his hands to himself,” adding that it has “unfortunately diminished” the public’s perception of him.

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At the end of this article on Hillary Clinton and the arguments for or against an indictment on the email case, we are told...

Biden held talks with Warren in Washington last August and it has been reported that he would have chosen her as his running mate if he had taken the plunge and run for president. If Clinton withdraws, that ticket could be revived.
Rich Galen, former press secretary to Vice-President Dan Quayle, says: “I think Joe Biden would be the nominee in about 25 seconds. If his son Beau hadn’t died last year, he probably would have run and he probably would have won the nomination.

“It can’t be Bernie Sanders: I don’t care what the polls say, Americans are not going to elect a democratic socialist as the president of the United States.”

DiGenova concurs: “Joe Biden would be a natural. It’s well-known in Washington that he is tanned, rested and ready.” (my bold).

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...indictment-fbi