The president doesn’t have the power to “ditch” the vice president. He could ask Biden to resign, but Biden could tell him where to stick it.
And rightfully so, he left a good senate seat to get that job he can’t exactly go to Chris Coons and tell him to step aside I need my seat back.
If Obama turns around to Biden and says I’m going drop you Biden’s response should be ‘go fuck yourself’ then proceed to torpedo Obama’s campaign.
He can still “ditch” him as a recommendation, while keeping him on the job.
Probably even with the higher numbers, they fall well below the estimates Uncle Joe gave us for created jobs by the end of 2010 back in 2010. Or how one good month does not trump two bad months (May/June 2011) or how despite having deficit spending as a percent of GDP the third highest ever(and the two beating it are the World Wars) and twice as much as the Depression, unemploment is higher than his lofty predictions. But of course, Keynesian economicsis working.
You don’t think Hillary Clinton will be the front-runner in 2016?
Possibly, but she’d be pushing 70. I guess it’s a case of whether she still wants it. I guess she wouldn’t be any older than Reagan was.
My guess is that she’ll be a lot healthier and lot more together mentally than he was at that age as well.
Me, I’m still hoping for Schweitzer in 2016.
The thing is, while Vice-Presidents like to run, they rarely win.
The only sitting Veeps to ever win the presidency were Martin Van Buren (#8 in 1838) and George H. Bush (#41 in 1988). Nixon won after being out of the office for a while.
By comparison, 8 guys got the job because the top guy died, and one because he resigned. You have a three time greater chance of getting the job if something bad happens to the boss.
Part of the problem is, as Veep you are seen as a lacky, the guy who has no identity, but has to go out there and defend whatever the boss did. Which means you already have all his enemies, and you need to work on his friends.
And let’s be honest, sometimes, these guys get picked because they are “Assassination Insurance”. No one would want to shoot the president and put THAT idiot in charge. He’s usually picked as a sop to whatever interest group felt slighted in the runup. The Establishment felt slighted by Reagan’s populist appeal, so Bush-41 was a concession to the Country Clubbers. Quayle was a nod to the conservatives. Cheney was a nod to people who though Bush Jr. was weak on policy.