Meursault
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« on: May 13, 2014, 12:40:47 AM » |
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Biden would probably be a very competent President, in a narrow, clinical sense. He knows where the levers of power are and how to pull them; there probably isn't a Congressional aide alive he won't at least recognize physically. And he has a foreign policy acumen to rival any Secretary of State, including Clinton.
His problem, setting aside his age, actually stems from his strength: he's such a backslapping retail politician that it's impossible to actually buy into him as a policy wonk. He's not brilliant by any means, but he has a stolid, workmanlike mind. But it's difficult for voters to reconcile that with his goofball 'Uncle Joe' demeanor.
And it's a problem he'll never resolve, because that's who Biden is.
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