Joe Biden on the bin Laden raid

[vienna]

I never said that she was presidential material. That's a typical political partisan tactic. First you try to spread falsehoods about a person and when someone calls you on it you accuse them of not having a sense of humor. I had thought better of you.

As I have ststed in many other posts, I am not partisan: there is plenty enough incompetence and ineptitude to spread around on all levels and wings of American politics. There is a marked difference between humor and falsehoods: one is a teasing tweak to stave off real partisanship and complacency, the other is a deliberate, outright lie to obfucate the reality of a situation. IOW, lighten up...

As far as someone being Presidential material, anyone who is selected as a Vice-Presidential candidate should have a least the minimum one would expect of a presidential candidate; they are, after all, " a heartbeat away". Having gone through the Watergate period and followed it closely, I really would not like to see another situation where both the President and the Vice-President are forced out of office (Nixon, Agnew) and replaced by two individuals who take those offices, not by election, but by appointment (Ford, Rockerfeller)...

(Although, I must admit I did like Rockerfeller and feel it was a shame he was denied the chance to run for the Presidency as the GOP candidate; he was ostracized by the party for the very things they later embraced in Reagan. Go figure...)

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