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    flamingolingoBrendan O'Connor
    10/25/15 9:33pm

    I’m chalking this up as more evidence that Biden never intended to run but wanted the media to think he was.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesflamingolingo
      10/26/15 1:12am

      Probably true, but equally true that if he allowed his people to use this story to test how much sympathy it’d generate for a run, that it shows him to be a total scumbag.

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      flamingolingoGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      10/26/15 6:41pm

      Yeah, I’ve considered that possibility too. I’m going to go for the story that puts Biden in a more flattering light. But the scummy, ambitious thing is just as credible. He IS a high-level politician, after all.

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    jinniBrendan O'Connor
    10/25/15 8:37pm

    Beau was losing his nouns

    I have a brain injury, myself, that caused severe aphasia (now moderate), and I still don’t understand this sentence. He was losing his nouns?

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      GoOnWithoutMejinni
      10/25/15 8:43pm

      Yeah, I don’t (but don’t always understand people) and still am not sure. Maybe Dowd was a big School House Rock fan?

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      benjaminalloverjinni
      10/25/15 8:44pm

      I’m sure the phrase wasn’t an actual medical term. I feel like I know what he means, having been with my grandma as she passed. She could get out my mom’s name and “cold” or “no” but she couldn’t remember the names of things. “the... the.. it’s...”.

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    Set Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)Brendan O'Connor
    10/25/15 8:30pm

    It’s cool if I just blame all of this on Maureen Dowd and give Joe a pass for being a grieving parent, right?

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      Otto LipschitzSet Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)
      10/25/15 8:33pm

      You could blame Maureen Dowd for a melted popsicle and I would be cool with it. She should marry David Brooks to quarantine the gene pool.

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    cuntybawsBrendan O'Connor
    10/25/15 8:32pm

    Oh good god: please, not Beau-ghazi.

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      GregSamsaBrendan O'Connor
      10/25/15 8:31pm

      Let’s just give Biden his dignified end.

      He doesn’t really do politics anymore, even though he tries.

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        Don't drone me broBrendan O'Connor
        10/25/15 8:48pm

        “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” -Will Rogers

        Too bad there’s such a gulf between running for office, and actually governing. Because it feels like Dems are terrible at the former and pretty good at the latter, at the end of the day.

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          Robert S.Don't drone me bro
          10/25/15 9:38pm

          You can’t be an elected Republican with any media presence (most state legislators and everyone above)and not be a total shitbag. The shitbags will throw indefinite amounts of money to force you out of office if you don’t join them. Because lawsuits and the Supreme Court killed the FEC’s ability to do its job a couple shitbag billionaires were able to take over the Republican party. Perhaps there are just as shitty Democratic billionaires but they certainly haven’t decided to come out to play yet.

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          Don't drone me broRobert S.
          10/26/15 2:54am

          Peel that onion, because if the world needs nothing else it’s

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        CultureCannibalBrendan O'Connor
        10/25/15 8:32pm

        You mean...a political machine might have (gasp) LEAKED misleading information?

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          chickadeedeedeeCultureCannibal
          10/26/15 10:30am

          Always star Malcolm Tucker references. Always.

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        A House In VirginiaBrendan O'Connor
        10/26/15 2:07pm

        woulda gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for that meddling old biddy Maureen Dowd...

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          GregoireBrendan O'Connor
          10/25/15 8:35pm

          Weird because I totally pictured the situation like this “Dad, RUN.”:

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