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> Hillary, stop Biden your time already and give Joe the VP nod
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> Hillary Clinton has only one logical choice for vice president: The vice president.
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> The Democratic nominee will receive plenty of advice during the coming "veepstakes" — and the conventional wisdom will tell her to pick a running mate to shore up some missing quality or deliver some key demographic.
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> She’ll hear that picking Housing Secretary Julian Castro will strengthen her with Hispanics and maybe even help her in his native Texas.
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> She’ll hear that picking Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will help her with women, disaffected Bernie Sanders voters and even people writing history books about women-only tickets.
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> President Obama officially endorses Hillary Clinton <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-obama-officially-endorses-hillary-clinton-article-1.2667530>
> She’ll hear that picking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will help her convince farmers that she shares their values (and supports their subsidies!).
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> She’ll hear that picking Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar gives her a Midwest credibility.
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> She hear that picking California Attorney General Kamala Harris gets her the Black Lives Matter crowd, but from the law enforcement side.
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> She’ll hear about other ways to tick off boxes with Sen. Cory Booker (an African-American from New Jersey), Rep. Joaquín Castro (see Julian above), Sen. Mark Warner (Virginia is a swing state) and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx (so is North Carolina).
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> But picking Joe Biden will say something more powerful than any of that: It will allow Clinton to say, “Wait a second: I’m the Establishment and I don’t need a checklist to pick a running mate. I need to pick the best candidate for the job.” (And it would make history; only John C. Calhoun served as vice to two presidents <http://www.clemson.edu/about/history/calhoun-clemson/johnccalhoun.html>.)
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> And that candidate is Joe Biden.
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> Trump, Hillary exchange Twitter barbs after Obama endorsement <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-hillary-exchange-twitter-barbs-obama-endorsement-article-1.2667587>
> But if you want to play checklist, focus-group politics, Joe can do that, too:
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> Biden makes more sense for Hillary than any swing-state draw.
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> (Nick Wass/AP)
> He’s been an objectively great vice president. Sure, the Onion likes to depict him topless and waxing old muscle cars, but Biden has served the President and the nation credibly and seriously. Even the odd gaffe here and there will make Clinton look better.
> He hits all of the areas where Clinton is weakest: He is very strong with labor groups. His family has a long and honorable military history. He’s not in bed with what Bernie Sanders rightly defined as “the billionaire class.” No one would pay Joe Biden $300,000 to speak to a bunch of Wall Streeters.
> And like Sanders, Biden is the rare septuagenarian who makes Millennials quiver with excitement.
> He is as comfortable in his own political skin as Clinton is not. Biden has genuine emotions — the ones that all the pollsters say connect politicians to voters. Even Clinton’s biggest supporters say her genuine emotions are the ones voters never see. Even his detractors know that Biden is human. There’s some doubt about that with Clinton.
> Biden solves the “senator” problem. If Clinton picks Sherrod Brown from Ohio, for example, his replacement will be picked by a Republican governor. That’s bad if President Clinton wants allies in the Senate.
> Unlike Clinton, Biden won’t be afraid to say what needs to be said in what will obviously become a street fight with Republican nominee Donald Trump. Clinton needs someone on the low road.
> He rides the Amtrak, which is like an expensive version of the F train. This guy feels your pain.
> And if anyone can go toe-to-toe with Trump on the hair issue, it’s Joe Biden.
> You can click all you want on the Washington Post’s slice-o-matic for picking a Vice President <https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/vice-presidential-candidate-finder/democratic>, but if you select a “male,” “establishment” candidate who is “not from” a swing state, who is “not” an historic first and is “from” the northeast, the only three candidates you get are New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Biden and former mayor Mike Bloomberg.
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> Cuomo is unqualified because he doesn’t want to be vice president. He wants to be president and moonlight as a hit man after hours. And Bloomberg just wants to be president. Neither is a suitable partner for anyone except himself.
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> The only Establishment candidate is Joe Biden. And in an election against the ultimate rogue, the Establishment candidate reminds voters that there is an “establishment” for a reason: We may not be flashy, but we are professionals.
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> And given that the Republican nominee thinks people can’t do certain jobs because of their ethnic heritage, the Establishment sounds pretty damn good right now.
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