Rumor Again Biden To Quit Democratic Ticket

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There’s more rumor going about that Senator Joe Biden will excuse himself from the Democratic Vice Presidential ticket possibly due to health reasons.  An October surprise?  Something to foil the Republican’s attempt to retain the White House?  And handily stepping in to place?  Lady -in-waiting, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, to bring back Hillary-supporting disillusioned Democrats.  This was abuzz recently.  Death By 1000 Papercuts, Canada Free Press, Associated Content, Orange Juice Blog, Urban Legends, and American Thinker, all discussed the rumor.  Flopping Aces reviewed why the rumor is probably false, and lists several slick points why Biden is beloved by the Republicans.    

Joshua Pundit reported on September 17, 2008.

The way it’s supposedly going down is that sometime after October 5th Biden will step down from being Obama’s running mate because of ‘health reasons’ and Hillary will come on the ticket. The reason for the October 5th date is the VP debate on October 2nd, which Biden will handle either because Hillary wouldn’t have sufficient time to prep or simply refused..and anyway, they want Hillary to be an October surprise and try to pull things out at the last minute.

Death By 1000 Papercuts reported on September 21, 2008, No Biden Rumor: No Obama-Biden Campaign Materials in Obama Offices.  Signs anew of rumor?  Rather odd for a presidential campaign supposedly in full swing.  Rumor swill?  Read on.

If Joe Biden were not the solid VP pick–and due to be replaced in the rumored “October Surprise”–it would seem that there wouldn’t be much of an investment made by the Obama campaign in Obama-Biden campaign materials and merchandise.

We visited three Obama campaign offices in three different states, called several others in a few states picked at random and checked out Barackobama.com’s online store to see what the situation was.

…there is no end to the “Only Obama” campaign materials.

…“No one has any (Obama-Biden campaign merchandise)”.  “We don’t have any Obama-Biden stuff. The national campaign says it’s sold out and back-ordered. It’ll be about two weeks until we get any.”

Two weeks?  That would place the date around the 4th or 5th of October, incidentally.

Sold out versus Cancelled?  False Rumor?

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Updates on  No Biden Rumor: No Obama-Biden Campaign Materials in Obama Offices.

UPDATE #1 – 1320 EDT

Just a week ago, the buzz was starting when Joe Biden called Hillary Clinton, “more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States”.

UPDATE #2 – 2055 EDT

Jack Kelly, in the Washington Times, also has heard things about the Obama ticket distress.

But my friend Steve Maloney (who first got me interested in Sarah Palin) says his sources in the Democratic Party tell him Barack Obama is being pressured to dump Sen. Joseph Biden from the ticket and replace him with Hillary Clinton, the switch to come just after the vice presidential debate Oct. 2. Speculation about such a switch has emerged on several left-wing blogs.

“It’s time to dump Biden and replace him with Sen. Hillary Clinton,” said Andy Ostroy on the Huffington Post Monday. “I’m starting to think that if Team Obama doesn’t do something dramatic fast, it’s gonna lose this election.”

See:

• http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/09/no-biden-no-obama-biden-campaign-materials-in-obama-offices/
• http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/09/no-biden-rumors-swirl-over-obama-dumping-biden-for-hillary-clinton/
• http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4978
• http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1030684/will_obama_dump_biden_for_clinton.html
• http://orangejuiceblog.com/2008/09/is_obama_going_to_dump_biden/
• http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/joebiden/a/octobersurprise.htm
• http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/will_biden_swap_with_hillary.html
• http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/09/10/hillary-replacing-biden-on-dnc-ticket/
• http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/biden-to-leave-ticket.html
• http://assolutatranquillita.blogspot.com/2008/09/biden-under-bus-this-just-in.html
• http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2008/09/will-obama-ask-biden-to-step-down.html
• http://washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Barack+Obama