secretary of state. more important, he says he wants the presidency more than secretary clinton does. that, biden says, the vital difference between he and hillary clinton. he loves politics, loves the presidency, and she doesn t love either anywhere as much as he does. actually, does anybody? one thing he clearly loves is sitting down face-to-face, biden does, with world leaders. who wouldn t? david cameron. angela merkel of germany and all the other world leaders. why shouldn t he be considered as obama s successor, he is asking? why should hillary clinton get first dibs when he has the edge and years of service, high level meetings with world leaders, the works? tonight we out the what could be the democratic super bowl, biden versus clinton in a regulation 15 rounder. glenn thrush wrote the big story in politico. he joins us. and howard fineman, editorial director of the huffington
because remember, this guy doesn t have he is probably the least affluent elected official. his net worth is not a ton of money. let me ask. would he run into it like would he be the polish cavalry going against the soviet or the german tanks? would he go into it knowing that it s all romance? he is doing the right thing, but he ll get killed? he won t do that. this guy, he is the perfect definition of that fine line between delusion and common sense, right. he really believes that he can do this. and he s got a sense okay. he is looking at the poll in iowa. if hillary clinton is going to get 65%, he is going to get 30, will he still run? i think so. the decision he is going to make unless ted kaufman and his sons and wife jill is supporting him. howard, to you. to me the key question is what is he going say? if he gets in that race with hillary clinton here are two people who are both in the obama administration. one is vice president, the other is secretary of
him and almost sort of begs them to account him off. this guys know he is hubert humphry. it s an endearing characteristics. this is hardball here. glenn, you quote someone in president obama s inner circle saying, i think this is a great quote, this is about the polls that do show hillary clinton way ahead of vice president biden right now. here is the quote. it s so big, it s almost literary. never in his entire life has this man been better positioned to get the thing he most wants, the presidency. he has climbed almost all the way to the top. and guess what? somebody moved the ladder how. would you deal with that? you again on that, and then i ll get to howard. what a great metaphor that man or woman came up with. you won t tell us who it was. you did everything right, he was elected when he was 29. he is vice president of the united states. he has been a good guy as vice president. people sort of like him. and then something happened. i mean that s why i did the story.
he ran the first time in 87. first time was completely humiliated. and ran again in 2008. his past is so fraught, we re talking about between the time he gets elect at 29 for the senate and gets sworn in, his wife and young daughter are killed. this is a guy by necessity has to knock off the rear view mirrors on any cars he drives. he s got to look forward. he has to keep impelled forward or he really loses his momentum. that s really the arc of this guy s story. what i find, howard, he is unusual. he is this high. he is not like dick cheney who had all the health problems and said he couldn t run for president, right? guy isn t term limited politically. no, he is not. and i too have spent a lot of time with him over the years. i covered that 88 campaign. and what happened in iowa was is he would go to a campaign event, and he would never stop talk. and he had them for the first 15 minutes of the event. i remember down by the river in davenport, iowa, beautiful night.
was jack kemp when he started out empower america in the 90s. a return to style. which didn t work. kemp s policies in terms of pro growth economics and supply economics you re going to see ryan return to that. so does mike lee. tax cuts to the rich. that s what that means. to howard s point the president can own basic fairness doctrine as a principle. at the same time it s worrisome to me democratic asks are something we shouldn t have to ask for. a raise in the minimum wage, fine, controversial. food stamp funding or the end to the skes ter cuts. when you did the last vote, 91-3 in the senate, a whole slew of republicans there. you have to look at the world view. as a republican i don t want to spend government money. i want people to work hard. wouldn t the minimum wage make a