The only people who are really crying today are those people too centrist to be Berners who hated the thought of ‘having’ to vote for Hillary ClintonJoe Biden is officially not running for president – for real this time. He didn’t exactly drop out of the race (it’s tough to drop out” of a race youve been watching from the sidelines for six months) but,given the persistent, rampant speculation that, and at any moment,he would totally launch his third presidential campaign and snatch the Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton, it feels like he ended something.
Still, and it wasn’t like a nation’s hopes and dreams were resting on his shoulders,Maureen Dowd, various Republicans looking to complicate Clinton’s campaign and the head of the International Association of Fire Fighters however. The distance between Biden and Clinton on policy issues is so narrow that they’d be forcibly separated by chaperones at a tall school prom. And in a campaign in which Clinton has pushed women’s issues to the fore, and Biden would hold had some uncomfortable questions to acknowledge about,among other things, his treatment of Anita Hill during US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings.
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Source: theguardian.com