Joe Biden, in an emotional interview with Stephen Colbert, expresses doubts about a 2016 run.

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Joe Biden, in Colbert Interview, Expresses Doubts About Bid for President

By MICHAEL D. SHEARSEPT. 10, 2015



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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in New York on Thursday. In a "Late Show" interview, he said of a run for president, “Nobody has a right, in my view, to seek that office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.” Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times



Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in an emotional, wide-ranging interview on Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” on Thursday, expressed doubt about the likelihood that he would run for president, saying that “I’d be lying if I said that I knew I was there.”

Repeatedly touching on his parents, his faith and his emotional fragility from the recent death of his son Beau, Mr. Biden told Mr. Colbert that no “man or woman should run for president” without being able to promise voters that “you have my whole heart, my whole soul, my energy, and my passion.”

“Nobody has a right, in my view, to seek that office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are,” Mr. Biden told Mr. Colbert, on his third night hosting the CBS program.

Mr. Biden made just a few jokes on the show, saying to Mr. Colbert, who in 2012 ran a fake campaign for president, that “you should run for president again, and I’ll be your vice president.”..................

[virtualobserver]

1. He clearly does not really want to run....

why doesn't he just say it.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Sure seems that way. Respect.

[Joe the Revelator]

3. I honestly think this is an old school attempt to cast himself as...

...the reluctant statesman who comes in near midnight to save the party. Which would be very Joe. And kind of cool.

[jfern]

4. Sanders was kind of like that too

He just didn't see anyone else running with similar positions. I'm sure if Warren or Sherrod Brown ran, he wouldn't have.

[bernmobile2016]

5. Hes fighting 3 things about runnning

First is the death of his son and the emotional toll it played on him and what a campaign would do to him emotionally as well.

The second is getting a feel for does he truly have it in his gut to make a run and stay with it.

The third is he is simply observing to see if he really is wanted if Hillary faded out and Bernie didn't come up so fast. I think now that Bernie has greatly risen to the top and will continue to build support in the party, he will realize he doesn't need to jump in to "save" the party and Bernie can in fact win in the general election next year. That third decision is probably going to be made in the next 2 to 3 weeks and if Bernie keeps going further up, then he will announce he isn't running. If Bernie were to suddenly collapse... then Joe would jump in, in a heartbeat.

[restorefreedom]

6. i wish he would just say he is not ready

if that is the case. he looks tired, grief stricken and emotional.

he has nothing to apologize for. he has served long and well. he has earned a peaceful retirement with his family.

i wish the damn dnc and media vultures would leave him the hell alone.