Lakhota
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Draft Biden 2016
Grief has many stages. First is disbelief. Then anger. Then sorrow. Then numbness. Then, finally, comes calculating how a strategically leaked anecdote about the deceased to a friendly New York Times columnist might make the public more receptive to a presidential run.
Bill Kristol argued back in August after Maureen Dowd’s column was published that, given the level of detail reported, only Biden himself or perhaps his wife could realistically be the leaker. But Kristol’s piece didn’t get much traction online, probably because it seemed mean to suggest that Biden might have tried to use Beau’s death to some sort of political advantage. That’s the sort of cold, self-interested tactic that — well, that Bill and Hillary Clinton might use. Fast forward two months and here’s Politico:
More: Report: Joe Biden himself leaked the story that it was his dying son’s wish that he run for president « Hot Air
Actually, it seems tacky as hell to me. It strikes me that Biden may be trying to ride his dead family members to the White House. I hope I'm wrong - but that's how it seems to me.
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