Biden: "Bernie Sanders, he’s doing a helluva job"

[left-of-center2012]

Joe Biden sounded off Wednesday on one of his potential primary opponents — but it wasn't Hillary Clinton.
“I am not a populist. But Bernie Sanders, he’s doing a helluva job,” Biden said,

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-213297#ixzz3kftbEtgc

[Demeter]

1. If that isn't an endorsement, I'll eat my hat

even if I have to go out and buy one, in order to eat it.

[Le Taz Hot]

6. I have to disagree wth you there.

Biden is strictly a party boy and every bit as much in the pockets of Wall Street as is Hillary. But I don't get the feeling that he and Hillary are BFFs if you know what I mean. I think this is him lobbing one over her way.

[thesquanderer]

12. Not necessarily. You can take it at face value.

Re-phrased, it sounds like it could be as simple as:

"I don't agree with all his positions, but he's doing a helluva job, getting people excited and getting all those people to come to his rallies."

[Fairgo]

2. I agree

He's made populism popular.

[NorthCarolina]

3. "Populist"

Populist:

1 "a member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people."



"represent the interests of ordinary people"

So, Biden openly admits he is "not a populist". So, as a politician who apparently does not seek to represent the "interests of ordinary people", who's interests does he seek to represent then?

No big deal, he wasn't really on my radar anyway; I just though it odd that he would have gone on record with that.

Anyway...

Go Bernie...you 'ol populist you.

[Snotcicles]

8. He made it clear, as if being a populist was, "Fringe". Maybe like the "Professional Left". nt

[JackInGreen]

4. So Joe considers Bernie to be his real challenge

Good. Come on Joe. Lets dance.

[turbinetree]

5. Feel the BERN........and a populist movement......

“I am not a populist. But Bernie Sanders, he’s doing a helluva job,” Biden said, puzzling at least a few donors at a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser in Miami.

Sure, it was a Joe-being-Joe moment. But a few donors weren’t over amused.

“What the hell was he saying? I mean, 90 percent of the room is a Hillary donor,” one contributor told POLITICO."

And what is classic in the above statement is that, it was "puzzling" a few of the donors at the DSCC--------------


Honk--------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[Geronimoe]

7. What this may be about

Biden is considering getting into the race. Hillary surrogates are stabbing Biden in the back. Telling Party elites that Hillary is their gal. She & Bill can raise more Wall Street money than Biden. They can help incumbents hold on to their seats and bring about a renaissance for the Party. Biden can't do this. He can not be the best person to lead the Party.

So this is Biden''s pay back. Perhaps he will get mad enough to support anyone against Hillary. Remember Teddy Kennedy. The Clinton's pissed him off enough for him to throw his support behind Obama.

[merrily]

9. Well, that was the story in 2008. After Game Change came out though, I'm wondering if Ted was not

on the side of Ried and Daschle and other PTB from the jump.

[Demeter]

14. A Clinton-Fueled Renaissance of the Democrats?

How well did that work LAST time?

[libdem4life]

15. Renaissance? The question is, Renaissance of what? DINOs?

[Autumn]

10. I think Joe is just tweaking his nose at Hillary

That's gotta 'bern'

[tavernier]

11. Not my favorite line, though.

It just begs to have "Brownie" tagged at the end.

[merrily]

13. Hush hush donors' meeting, phones collected, yet we're reading about it.