Joe Biden will not be running for 2016

by Alicia Massey, staff reporter

Seventy two year old, Vice President Joe Biden, will not be running for the Presidential Election 2016. He announced this On Wednesday, October 21, 2015.

According to CNN, “With his wife, Jill, and President Barack Obama at his side in the White House Rose Garden, the window for a successful campaign ‘has closed,’ noting his family’s grief following the death of his son, Beau.”

“In one way, it’s a good thing that Joe Biden is not running because with too many candidates there is a greater temptation to fight harder. When there’s too many candidates, they have to fight harder to get noticed. They say more outlandish things. On the other hand, I think Joe Biden is an excellent politician as well as Senator of Delaware, Vice President and I think he would make an excellent Presidential candidate,” AP Macroeconomics/Government Mr. Mengani said.

Biden also scolded Hillary Clinton during his speech without actually mentioning her name.  Without mentioning her by name, he criticized her assertion in last week’s debate that Republicans are her enemies. “They are our opposition; they’re not our enemies,” he said, repeating a point he made several times in the previous 48 hours.

Biden also doesn’t agree with Clinton’s policy of intervention in the Middle East.

“The argument that we just have to do something when bad people do bad things isn’t good enough,” he said.“It’s not a good enough reason for American intervention and to put our sons’ and daughters’ lives on the line, put them at risk.