I'm not going to alert but that was out of line.

And for posting something rooted in todays reality.

Thanks for your post.

I want DU to hold that line. Personal attacks are not okay. It seems like there are more personal attacks on DUers in GDP than there are attacks on actual candidates.

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everybody wants a beer with and loves to have around events, but who somehow slips off the top of voter preferences. His time is done. He has been great. He is maybe the best VEEP I can remember... he actually made a difference.

Retire Joe! Retire as a much-beloved Veep during an historic Presidency, not as the guy who didn't know when to quit.

That's the rallying cry. Frankly, almost all of the same objections many people have about Hillary Clinton also apply to Joe Biden.

I don't think Biden will run. If he does, Clinton will still lead in the polling.

If he runs he won't pull enough from her to put her in 2nd, it will just tighten the race between Bernie & Hillary.

maybe 3-5% from Bernie, and simply eliminate O'Malley and the rest. That would still leave Clinton with a substantial margin in most primaries. I don't think he'd run hard or push for the nomination much at all. In the end, he will be a solid, active Clinton supporter, along with President Obama in the GE campaign.

I do think he'd move into the second position in the polling, though, pushing Sanders into third place. I'm pretty much certain about that. He'd still be under the same bus people have tried to throw Hillary Clinton under.

I just don't think he wants it in the same way potentially Bernie/Hillary/O'Malley do. And I even temper that statement that I do think O'Malley is running for VP or for future Pres.

out-polled Biden even before she declared herself a candidate.

The former "Senator from the MBNA" is not exactly a man of the people.

The RAVE act is horrible.

I could not, in good conscience, vote for the guy.

It basically forces people into un-tenable Chapter 13 filings, when what these people often need is a true "Fresh Start" (Chapter 7.)

(As an aside, I hope you are well, and still riding. You should see the bike I built for myself this year. Do you know Hadley USA hubs? They are in LA area, and basically make one of the best Single Speed hubs going.)

before the bill went into effect. I had been unemployed for 14 months prior to filing.

Yeah, man, still riding every weekend, and any weekday after work when I can fit in a quick pedal. I built up a Surly Krampus several months ago, ostensibly for bikepacking, but I can't stay off the thing! My other bikes have grown jealous! Haven't had the SS out in a while. Maybe this weekend. I'm ashamed to admit that I'd never heard of Hadley, but their product looks real nice. What kind of bike did you build up, and what color did you opt for on those hubs?

I have a (2012?) Surly Karate Monkey I've been riding for a few years that I have built up a few different ways--always SS though, since Michigan is real flat. Right now, I have a Rabbit Hole wheelset that I built myself on it--single speed on Halo hubs. I have the 3" Knard on the front, and a 2.35" Schwalbe Nobby Nic on the rear. Set up ghetto tubeless, too. This is my mud/wet leaves bike.

My 2015 bike is an Ibis Tr 29. Carbon Fiber Single Speed with a 100 mm Reba fork. The wheelset is Hadley front and rear hubs, SS specific, with Stan's Arch Ex hoops. Hate talking about this one on a thread about Bankruptcy. Beleive me, I saved up.

Anyhow, Hadley hubs are among the best. In the same league as Chris King. Made in Upland, California. Basically, any axle can be switched out for any other one. My Hadley/Arch wheels started out as 135 mm QR. A simple axle switch ($45 or so) and they are now 142 mm/ 12 mm Maxle.

the KM is a great frame. My SS is a 2008 Redline Flight Monocog with an 80mm Fox F29. I just went ghetto split-tube with my Rabbit Holes as well. Was pleasantly surprised by how easy the beads set, and I haven't lost a single pound of pressure since converting. I may eventually go with the Velocity Dually, or Stan's Hugo when I go with my dyno hub setup. I'm gonna take a closer look at those Hadley's. They are priced significantly lower than the CKs or Hope hubs.

(not directed at anyone in particular! It just cracks me up.)

I also rock a X-Check SS for when the trails are wet, and a "Neck Romancer" Pugsley for when it snows! I want a Krampus too.



Nice. I have the same experience--nothing but good things to say about split tube tubeless. I pulled a 3" Honey Locust thorn from my a split tube Knard recently, and it sealed right up. I run about 10 PSI in the Knard in the summer.



Yeah, they are really good and a good price. Check out mtbr.com forums to see what people say about them. Hadley don't have a website (you can talk to the owners by phone though), so Balle Racing is kind of like their unofficial product page:

http://www.balleracing.com

I don't have any affiliation, I'm just a fanboy of theirs. Great stuff!

But I do remember the RAVE act!

to UD for Undermine Democrats.

Why this OP? Is Joe so threatening that purported negatives have to highlighted before he even announces?

so are the other not-Hillarys which basically require a Clinton catastrophe to succeed. Which gives them a certain vulture-like cast and calls for either a full-on ABC attitude (the Sanders constituency) or an air of playfulness, for lack of a better word, which Biden is good at. In fact it comes naturally. Being in Cali I don't have immediate experience of Joe's electioneering apart from his presidential runs and veep career which has been exemplary, the Ryan debate particularly, but I've observed time and again that casual acquaintances who loathe Barack really like Joe. So he turned out to be a great pick in that regard. Could he win at the top of the ticket? Somebody has to so I wouldn't rule it out, is what it boils down to.

I have absolutely no doubt about that. I think that there is a chance that the republicans might nominate someone he could beat but we won't know until we get much closer to the first primaries.

It sure is going to be interesting.

Is there actually more to it? We watched the MSNBC lineup last night and I didn't see anything very substantial, just some reaction spots.

I think he could run, and should run if he wants to, I even think he'd be competitive. BUT, and it's a big but, I don't think he will in the end.

Haha but I feel the same way all the time!

Hillary Clinton, as can be evidenced from her long history of trashing anything Hillary does.

So if MoDo is the source of the most recent hoopla about Joe, the "news" should be discounted, at least for bias. It is truly tragic, but sometimes the worst enemies of women are ... other women.

It seems weird that a MoDo column got blown up into a real news item all over the media. Maybe it is Trump fatigue and they wanted something new to talk about.

Some woman trash other women because it gets them taken seriously by some men--standing up for your own is seen as some kind of weak feminine tribalism (although we are supposed to ignore when men in power cover for each other.) It's a power-play.

wave-length, Starry Messenger!

So they're floating Biden out there as an alternative in case she implodes before the convention.

He might be a nice guy and all but a lot of us remember the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.

And he voted for the Iraq war resolution too.

Maybe doesn't have the extra appeal to win the nomination against some others.

But most would say he is qualified to be president and they should feel safe with him ad pres.

This is why Obama picked him to be vp. People feel comfortable with him.

If anything happens where Clinton don't be the nominee it still most likely be Biden ends up as the nominee.

we are related distantly and like myself and other relatives we are all too affectionate and honest. If that's the worst that can be said about us....