MORT KONDRACKE: Biden’s problem, as everybody knows, is that he talks too much and he couldn’t stop and he got himself into this mock . . . with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and then has to apologize for it. If your opening day announcement is — has to be corrected with an apology, you didn’t begin well.<\/p>\n
BILL KRISTOL: I think it’s a very clever move by Senator Biden<\/b>…. [I]f he had just announced his candidacy, he’d be like the ninth Democrat in the race, who would care? He’d be on page A-7 in the papers, we would not be discussing him here. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I didn’t see Kristol’s comments on TV, and the transcript doesn’t reflect whether he was laughing while saying this, but it appears that he was earnest. Kristol appears to genuinely believe that Joe Biden did a good<\/i> thing by causing an uproar, as if this was a calculated, “clever” strategy.<\/p>\n
I can picture Biden now … “I’ll tell a reporter that Obama is ‘clean,’ be accused of racism, spark all kinds of intense media scrutiny, get booed on The Daily Show, and become the butt of jokes. It’ll be great!”<\/p>\n
Note to Kristol: there is<\/i> such a thing as bad publicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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