Joe Biden Rightly Says He's not the Only Guy Who Can Do the Job

Of all the names being talked about and subjected to polls as potential 2016 presidential candidates, Vice President Joe Biden has to be the name that garners the least interest. But, not so fast says the man himself. A few days ago, Biden announced that he can't think of any good reasons not to seek the presidential nomination in 2016. "There may be reasons I don't run, but there's no obvious reason for me why I think I should not run," Biden told CNN last Friday. In typical Biden fashion, he joked that a good reason not to run was regaining the freedom to once again drive his Corvette, but Biden said that "realistically" he plans to make a decision by summer 2015 whether he'll run for the presidency. If he decides to run, Biden would have to face former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who places at the top of most polls, including those with potential Republican candidates. According to a recent Washington Post/ABC poll, Biden, at 12%, placed a distant second to Clinton, at 73%. Biden told CNN that the decision will be determined by whether or not he is the "best qualified person" to run : "That doesn't mean I'm the only guy that can do it," Biden said. "But if no one else, I think, can, and I think I can, then I'd run. If I don't, I won't." But for the present, Biden is on the road to push President Obama's "year of action" promised in the State of the Union address and has been asked by Obama to develop a task force in the next six months to reform federal job training programs. “The income inequity in this country is profound. The middle class is shrinking,” Biden said earlier this week. However, CNN believes that immigration reform is overshadowing the focus on the middle class, pointing to House Speaker John Boehner's recent statement that immigration reform is unlikely this year because his caucus doesn't trust Obama. Biden says that he believes immigration reform is possible and that Boehner is "under a great deal of pressure from the right. I think no matter what we said, it would impact the internal dynamic and politics in the Republican Caucus. We should let them figure their caucus out." Meanwhile, Biden said that it's clearly "not our preference" to pass a bill that falls short of offering a pathway to citizenship."Any bill that passes out of the House has to go through a conference committee with the Senate, which passed overwhelmingly a pathway to citizenship," Biden said. ~~~~~ Dear readers, the bigger reason Democrats are worried relates to how the botched Obamacare rollout will affect them at the ballot box in November's congressional elections. But, in another comment of the type that can almost be called "Bidenisms," the Vice President explained that the Democrat's worry about the November elections doesn't mean that Obama or he will stay out of the fall races. Here's how Biden put it : "There are places the President is popular and there are other places where he wouldn't be welcome but I can 'go in' while there are still other places where neither of us would go." And that, friends, is the exact reason why Joe Biden is not considered to have serious presidential potential. Even when Biden manages to control his earthy language, even when he manages to follow the script, even when he knows what the White House position on any given topic is and manages to repeat it -- even then, lJoe Biden cannot seem to avoid expressing himself in an English that is often almost incomprehensible. If the world has been confused by Obama's 'leading from behind' and vanishing red line rhetoric, it would be completely lost with Joe Biden's expressions. Pity the translators who would have to deal with his very off-the-cuff downhome English. And, by the way, Mr. Biden - there may be. Democrat strongholds where the American President, whether Democrat or Republican, would not be welcome, but I seriously doubt it. If you simply could have learned to follow your talking points and keep your convoluted opinions to yourself, you actually might have made the presidential wannabe list. As it is, you are, as you said, "not the only guy that can do it." In fact, you are probably the last "guy that can do it."