Should Joe Biden be Hillary Clinton's Secretary of State?
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« on: October 21, 2016, 12:09:42 PM »
He should be, even if it probably won't happen.
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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2016, 12:11:01 PM »
No. (and I love Joe Biden)
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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2016, 12:22:57 PM »
I think that would be a step sideways from Joe is used to... so no.

Really, she should at least consider keeping Kerry.
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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2016, 12:36:56 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2016, 12:43:55 PM »
No, she'll want her administration to have its own distinct identity.  That means picking new cabinet people.
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« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2016, 02:52:04 PM »

No. Biden needs to retire.
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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2016, 02:55:45 PM »

Yeah, and right now he's in a harmless position.  SoS isn't a beer summit position, and that's what Joe likes.
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« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2016, 03:05:04 PM »
No.

She wants an administration for the future, not the past.

Besides, if you have seen Biden speak lately, his age is clearly catching up with him and he is sounding feeble.

He will not be able to keep up with the demanding pace required of a Secretary of State.
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« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2016, 03:12:52 PM »
No. Let the man retire in peace.
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« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2016, 08:09:37 PM »
Biden's foreign policy ideas are some of his more hairbrained stuff.

Love Joe, but he shouldn't be running the state department.
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« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2016, 10:43:11 PM »
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« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2016, 06:19:20 AM »
No, though Joe was my first choice for president this year.

William Burns or Susan Rice would make a good choice. Keeping Kerry for a while would also be a good decision.
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« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2016, 09:49:23 PM »
Clinton is eying him to be the next Secretary of State.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/clinton-biden-secretary-of-state-230428
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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2016, 09:53:47 PM »
Quote from: TDAS04 on October 21, 2016, 12:09:42 PM
He should be, even if it probably won't happen.

Do you have insider knowledge?
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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2016, 10:44:59 PM »
He should be sent back in time to be Secretary of State starting in 2009. This would allow him to implement his Iraq partition plan (possibly preventing the rise of ISIS) and allow someone remotely competent at the helm when the Benghazi consulate was under attack.
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« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2016, 09:06:38 AM »
I thought Biden as Clinton's Secretary of State would be too good to be true, but maybe it could happen.  We'll see.
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« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2016, 01:32:43 PM »
No, he needs to retire. Joe Biden is probably in my top 3 favorite political figures of this generation, but he's run his course in formal service. I'd love to see him stay in the public realm, but he needs a break.
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« Reply #17 on: October 31, 2016, 12:13:14 PM »
Quote from: Siren on October 21, 2016, 12:43:55 PM
No, she'll want her administration to have its own distinct identity.  That means picking new cabinet people.

Which probably just means recycling the same brain trust that has been running the Clinton Operation for the past 25 years.

I'll peg her to nominate Strobe Talbott or Bill Burns. 
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« Reply #18 on: October 31, 2016, 02:12:38 PM »
I like Biden, but I wouldn't want him for State.  He had that partition idea for Iraq, which was terrible.  Partitions in recent history have uniformly been disastrous, so we shouldn't be going down that path for Iraq.  (We shouldn't have gone down the path we have either).  Biden has been in D.C. for more than 40 years; time to step out, I think.
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« Reply #19 on: October 31, 2016, 02:18:14 PM »

Dude will probably do great things in retirement.
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« Reply #20 on: October 31, 2016, 04:43:12 PM »

The SoS job is not one to be handed to party elders because they deserver to have one last hurrah before retiring. I was glad Clinton got the job in '08 because I supported her in the primary, but if I were Obama, I probably wouldn't have picked her. It is really the place of seasoned diplomats whose careers have been built outside of the political infrastructure.
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« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2016, 05:32:32 PM »
No. Joe's mouth tends to run ahead of his ponderous brain. That is not good for a SOS.
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« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2016, 06:23:37 PM »
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