Joe Biden Dismisses Reports Of Supposed ‘Hollywood Moment’ With Dying Son

In his 1st interview since saying his decision to not run again for president, Vice President Biden stated he ran out of time.

Dowd also ginned up a quote in 2004, which still makes the rounds among journalists and politicos, from Secretary of State John Kerry during his presidential run: “Who among us doesn’t like NASCAR?”

“I’ll be very blunt”, he said.

A few people have written that, you know, Beau on his deathbed said, “Dad, you’ve got to run”, and, there was this sort of Hollywood moment that, you know, nothing like that ever, ever happened…There was not what was sort of made out as kind of this Hollywood-esque thing that at the last minute Beau grabbed my hand and said, “Dad, you’ve got to run, like, win one for the Gipper”. “It just, you and everybody grieves at a different pace”, he said.

Biden told CBS’ Norah O’Donnell in the interview that his late son, Beau, who died this May at the age of 46, did not urge his father to run from his death bed.

His wife, Jill, who was present for part of the interview, said she was “disappointed” her husband decided not to run.

My kid’s dying, an anguished Joe Biden thought to himself, and he’s making sure I’m O.K. “You know, like I asserted in the beginning, I mean, I thought Joe would be a awesome president”, she stated. But in a statement released earlier this month, a Biden spokesperson called that allegation “categorically false”.

Certainly Dowd, whose corrosive hatred of Hillary Clinton is the stuff of soap opera, wanted to encourage the entry of Biden into the Democratic presidential primary (as did many of her colleagues in the Beltway press corps). “I want to make no bones about that”. “I know Hillary, I know her debating skills, and I know mine”. “And you know I’ve seen his, in the 40 years of time we have been together, I’ve seen, you know, the strength of his character, his optimism, his hope”. “I think that is beneath the country”.

At the White House event, Biden lamented partisan bickering in Washington politics and said: “I don’t think we should look at Republicans as our enemies”. “I still think I could do a better job than anybody else could do”.

“I can achieve this far more, I consider”, he stated, including that he would really like assist with the struggle towards most cancers.