Stock up on Geritol and get ready for some hardcore malapropisms: It appears “Uncle” Joe Biden just took the first steps toward a run at the White House in 2020.
In a Thursday tweetstorm, Biden — a senator from PNC Bank Delaware from 1973 until 2009 and Barack Obama’s only vice president — announced he was starting his own political action committee, American Possibilities.
The formation of a PAC is often the first step in a potential presidential run. While Biden would be 78 in 2020 (and isn’t exactly known for his mental agility at this stage of the game, anyway), he’s dithered on whether or not he’s going to be throwing his hat in the ring, alternately intimating that he will or he won’t.
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Just a few weeks ago, Biden told an audience in New Hampshire, “Guys, I’m not running,” according to the Washington Examiner.
However, he certainly sounded like a candidate during the tweetstorm, which included platitudes so dead and devoid of meaning they’re actually engraved on a memorial cenotaph at the Political Hacks Retirement Village in Foggy Bottom.
“Our politics has become too small and petty. We’re better than this,” Biden tweeted. “It’s time to remember who we are as Americans: Giving EVERYONE the opportunity to achieve the impossible.”
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It’s time to remember who we are as Americans: Giving EVERYONE the opportunity to achieve the impossible.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 1, 2017
It's time for big dreams and #AmericanPossibilities. If you're ready to elect folks who agree, say you're in: https://t.co/HyJR0b0KxA pic.twitter.com/nmvlgZfKYN
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 1, 2017
He’s in favor of America! And opportunity! That’s a pretty bold stand when you consider most politicians loudly protest against those things on the campaign trail.
Uncle Joe betrayed similar boldness on American Possibilities’ webpage.
“We are the nation that built the Hoover Dam and the Transcontinental Railroad. Landed a man on the moon. Cured polio. Built the internet. Sequenced the human genome. And we will be the nation to end cancer as we know it,” Biden said, taking more bold stands; what politician do you remember who thought polio-curing and moon landings were good things?
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Also a bold move: deciding against attributing the internet to Al Gore. He’s gonna be peeved.
“This is the history of the journey of this country: It’s one of ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” the website continues. “I believe that as much today as I did when I got elected to the United States Senate as a 29-year-old kid. But we have to remember who we are. At our best, America has always thought big. That’s why the negativity, the pettiness, the small-mindedness of our politics today drives me crazy. We’re better than this.”
It’s good that Biden is taking a strong stand against negativity, pettiness, and small-mindedness, too. You know what would have been even better? Taking that stand when he was in the Obama White House, when his boss was flooding American politics with plenty of those three things.
Perhaps most hilariously, Biden said that it was high time “to look beyond 24-hour news cycles and 140-character arguments,” even after he announced it via a tweetstorm.
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Will he or won’t he? There certainly seems to be enough stock political bromides to indicate that Biden has toned down his act (no talk of beating up Trump, for instance), and it sounds like a candidate webpage to me. Either way, it seems that hilarity is about to ensue.
H/T TheBlaze
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