JOE The ridiculed

There are strange times in the United States: Although Joe Biden failed twice already and is known for slip-ups, he might run for the Democrat as president OF MARTIN KILIAN, WASHINGTON.

August 14, 2015 22:25 clock37 comments

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US Vice President Joe Biden | © Nick Ut / AP / dpa

There is still a long way until the American election in November 2016. However, it rumbles already enormous, the voters are already quite agitated, yes ballsy even: The large field of Republican candidates leads despite many missteps and controversies Donald Trump on, however, with the Democrats no favorite Hillary Clinton causes a sensation, but the often dubbed as socialist Senator Bernie Sanders . The oldtimer from rural New England state of Vermont said in several appearances on the American west coast in front of tens of thousands of enthusiastic and mostly young followers.

Whether Sanders, an American company which hovers along the lines of Scandinavian welfare states, Hillary Clinton may make the nomination for presidential candidate really in dispute must be doubted. On the other hand, this strange political times in the United States. There is a widespread dissatisfaction along with the feeling that the political class in Washington had become independent at the expense of citizens. This complex situation complicates forecasts and opens up previously unimagined possibilities.

That may also Joe Biden think Barack Obama's loyal vice president. This week he wants during his beach vacation in South Carolina to decide whether he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination. Biden had announced such a "family decision towards the end of summer" in February during a trip to the Middle Western Iowa, where early 2016, the first party meetings to determine the Democratic nominee will be held.

Easily the decision it will not fall now. Although the vice and former Senator in the Democratic Party is generally popular, a President Biden but the party people is hard to imagine. "Uncle Joe" he is affectionately known in Iowa, an upright man of conviction. But no one who triggers like Bernie Sanders enthusiasm or Hillary Clinton's stature would.

In addition, Biden has failed twice on the way to the White House: Both 1988 and 2008, he crashed in his application from a presidential candidate. When you first start the then Senator was caught when he copied a speech by British Labour politician Neil Kinnock word for word. The fell on especially when it came to the Personal candidates. Seven years ago, Biden arbitration against Clinton and Obama for the party meetings in Iowa miserably from. Fate was still good with him as Obama's vice seemed Biden on important decisions. At times he was the President, as in the gay marriage advance even one step.

Biden has with the American vice presidency a thankless job: Famous is the utterance of Franklin Roosevelt's vice John "Cactus Jack" Garner, the second position is not even "worth a bucket of warm spit". Even Biden, who as many of his predecessors has a closer relationship to the president and every week for lunch privately meets with Obama had, sometimes a beating. So the end of 2011 it was announced that Obama's campaign strategists had given confidential surveys in order to find out whether Biden should be replaced against Hillary Clinton.

Expletives paired with nonsense

Biden's rich political experience would certainly be an advantage for a presidential nomination, his inclination to linguistic slip-ups do not. Sometimes he referred to himself as "President", sometimes he slipped in front of open microphone in expletives from or said simply nonsense. The affable vice also like to kiss and betätschelt, earned him a lot of ridicule, among others in the American satirical magazine The Onion . There Biden was shown in a photomontage shirtless in the driveway to the White House when washing an old sports car - an allusion also to the simple relations, which stems from Biden.

The vice president knows that an entry into the presidential campaign would bring his head in distress - Obama had no other choice than strict neutrality - and Hillary would annoy many friends in the party sustainably. Moreover, Biden would probably expose a degrading spectacle, because he would not taken seriously: You like him, but you also ridiculed Biden. For a candidate could speak that Biden's son Beau, who passed away in May of a brain tumor, the father charged shortly before death, to compete for the presidency. That Hillary's poll numbers fall, Biden could also encourage them to try their luck.

"Biden might finally goes into the race because Hillary slips every day," tweeted Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch recently and therefore expressed the wishful thinking of American Conservative. The vice is certainly simulate all scenarios during this holiday week and make his decision soon publicized. To imagine Joe Biden as a presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, requires some courage.Given the success of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders but almost everything seems to imagine.

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