{"id":10680,"date":"2015-08-24T21:23:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T21:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10680"},"modified":"2015-08-24T21:23:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T21:23:43","slug":"ok-mr-veep-which-is-it-in-or-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10680","title":{"rendered":"OK, Mr. Veep, which is it? In or out?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vice President Joe Biden is driving me nuts.<\/p>\n

Just when I think he’s going to jump into the 2016 Democratic presidential primary race, he makes me think he’s going to think twice and not<\/em> go.<\/p>\n

Then the guy hires a communications chief who once worked for former Sen. John Edwards’s — yes, that<\/em> John Edwards — ill-fated 2008 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Kate Bedingfield is her name. I won’t hold her former job as flack for one of recent political history’s more notorious marital infidels against her.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe will be a key adviser to me, a terrific asset to our office, and an important member of the entire White House organization,\u201d Biden said in a statement. Of course he had to couch it in terms of her working for the vice president’s office and becoming such a key member of the “White House organization.”<\/p>\n

She reportedly is a first-rate PR expert. That ratchets up the chatter about the vice president’s political ambitions.<\/p>\n

Is he in or out?<\/p>\n

Biden met this past weekend with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who’s the darling of the far left of her party. She, too, has been considered a possible presidential candidate, even though she has virtually eliminated any possibility of her running. I did say “virtually,” yes?<\/p>\n

What was that meeting all about? Was he seeking her endorsement? Is he looking for further assurance that she’s really, really and truly<\/em> not a candidate in 2016? Might he be sounding her out about joining him on a prospective Democratic ticket?<\/p>\n

Only they know. They ain’t tellin’.<\/p>\n

I made need a tranquilizer before this is all over.<\/p>\n

Today — as opposed to just the other day — that fake trick knee of mine is telling me the vice president wants to make one more run at the Big Job.<\/p>\n

He’s just got that one obstacle standing in front of him: Hillary Rodham Clinton. But now it appears she’s been damaged …\u00a0maybe, possibly. That e-mail mess is getting harder to clean up.<\/p>\n

Is the vice president now poised to rescue the Democratic Party and from its far left fringe, which now seems enamored of Sen. Bernie Sanders?<\/p>\n

Time is running out, Mr. Vice President.<\/p>\n

We need a decision. Soon.<\/p>\n

And my hunch is that is exactly what Kate Bedingfield is telling him.<\/p>\n

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Vice President Joe Biden is driving me nuts. Just when I think he’s going to jump into the 2016 Democratic presidential primary race, he makes me think he’s going to think twice and not go. Then the guy hires a communications chief who once worked for former Sen. John Edwards’s — yes, that John Edwards … Continue reading OK, Mr. Veep, which is it? In or out?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[1560,2139,2505,2530,5384,5246],"class_list":["post-10680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-edwards","category-political-news","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-joe-biden","tag-john-edwards","tag-kate-bedingfield","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10682,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions\/10682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}