Subject: Biden Deals Himself Back Into 2016 Contention
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "B smith" <[email-masked]>, "Rob Walker" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, "Molly Magarik" <[email-masked]>, "Ted Kaufman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:50:19 -0500

Biden Deals Himself Back Into 2016 Contention
Ezra Klein: "In the continuing drama that is the Obama presidency, Biden often appears as comic relief... Yet just a few days before he was giving dating advice on C-SPAN2, Biden again proved himself perhaps the most effective member of the Obama administration. He reprised his role as the White House closer, the guy who can cut a deal with the Republicans after everyone else has failed. In the end, Biden got Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to strike a deal that the White House was happy with. That's something neither Obama nor Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner had achieved. And it wasn't the first time. Biden also helped close the 2011 deal that lifted the debt ceiling and the 2010 deal that extended the Bush tax cuts in return for fresh stimulus."

"Biden's skills as a campaigner are also considerable. According to Nielsen, his speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention won better television ratings than the addresses of either Bill Clinton or Obama (or Republicans Mitt Romney and Representative Paul Ryan, for that matter). His debate performance against Ryan bucked up anxious Democrats and arguably stanched the bleeding from Obama's hapless initial appearance against Romney."

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