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[JI7]

1. Maureen Dowd is an asshole

[PatSeg]

2. How does that woman still have a job?

That story never smelled right to me.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. Did she say there was a holy light too?

[dreamnightwind]

4. Wow, I could have sworn I saw Joe himself tell the story in a very similar way

???

[CreekDog]

9. when?

is that you Maureen?

[dreamnightwind]

10. LOL, sorry, no it isn't

I actually think I've seen him do this more than once. Don't have any documentation, random (for me) TV segments. I remember how turned off I was by it though, seemed inappropriate. Now it's all a bad rap from Maureen Dowd? I think he dug this hole himself. Doesn't really matter since he isn't running, I will let it go, just was surprised to see this.

[maddiemom]

15. How about coming upwith just ONE of these "interviews" to prove it?

References, please.

[BlueCheese]

5. I'm skeptical.

Why didn't Biden contradict that story before now?

[maddiemom]

16. Why should he bother?

[Beacool]

6. Didn't MoDo claim to have gotten the scoop from Biden?

I'm glad that he set the record straight. MoDo hates the Clintons so much that she was chortling about Biden getting into the race.

[JPZenger]

20. Joe should have squashed story sooner, particularly after he was blamed for spreading it.

[SunSeeker]

7. Why did he even talk to Dowd?

[dorkzilla]

14. That right there is a good question. nt

[maddiemom]

17. We don't know that he did.

[Sunlei]

11. Was a very good interview. I've always heard this,“Beau all along thought that I should run and I c

“Beau all along thought that I should run and I could win,”

Was surprised to hear, Biden say he likes Ryan and thinks he will do a better job at working with others.

[LynnTTT]

12. He could have denied it

Let's face facts. He has had months to deny this, but kept silent. If he decided to run, I suspect that maybe he would not be denying it.

[Paladin]

13. Maureen Dowd, permanent embarrassment. (nt)

[Fred Sanders]

18. So apparently hearsay is poor evidence of anything? What will mass media pundits do without it?

[greatlaurel]

19. This is a great sign that the Democratic leadership are not going to allow GOP lies to stand.

It is great that these kinds of propaganda and vicious personal attacks will no longer be allowed to stand unchallenged. This exposes Maureen Dowd for the GOP operative she is. Now when she attacks Democrats, the piece will get the "There she goes again." and an eyeroll every time now.

This is a very important step for the Democratic Party to blunting the relentless right wing media attacks.

Thank you, Vice President Biden. You are doing more for the American people now than ever before. Joe Biden is clearly thinking about leaving the US a better place for his grandchildren.