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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Democrats Look at Plan B: Biden as a One-Term President, with Warren as His
VP
Biden had good reasons to huddle privately with Elizabeth Warren on Saturday
at his official residence. The Massachusetts senator may have chosen not to
run next year, but her populist rhetoric and agenda dominate the 2016
Democratic contest. Should Biden challenge Hillary Clinton for the
nomination, he will need either Warren’s neutrality or her blessing.
Socialist Bernie Sanders isn’t the only candidate pounding the drums of
class warfare. Hillary claims “the deck is still stacked in favor of those
at the top,” attacks high-level corporate salaries, and says that “we have
to go beyond Dodd-Frank” in passing laws to rein in Wall Street firms. All
of these themes are straight from Elizabeth Warren’s playbook and bear
scant resemblance to the centrism that Bill Clinton embraced as president in
the 1990s.
But Warren is stoutly refusing to endorse any candidate, so far preferring
to use her leverage to influence the entire Democratic field. In an
interview on Friday, she told WBZ in Boston: “I don’t think anyone has
been anointed.”
A former law professor who came to prominence as a staunch critic of
policies that make it easier for creditors to collect debts, Warren hasn’t
forgotten that, as a senator, Hillary Clinton in 2001 backed a bankruptcy
bill supported by the credit-card lobby. Biden, also a senator, backed a
similar bill in 2005. No real surprise there, since Biden represented
Delaware, the home of many credit-card issuers. But it’s still a black mark
against him. (Clinton missed the 2005 vote.) |
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