hiya Richmma80,
a better candidate?
i guess that depends on what you mean by that. Hillary, i think, was sharper on policy - and i think she had a capacity for boldness that Mr. Biden lacks. her healthcare initiative in the early 90's was politically suicidal, but she believed in it and just forged ahead.
but as a candidate?
as a candidate she was hated, by both the left and the right, to a degree that i've not witnessed over the course of my lifetime.
as a candidate she was very shitty, i think, because being hated (to me) seems like an instant dealbreaker.
i gotta add that i didn't hate her. i wasn't exactly with her on some of her foreign policy philosophy, and i found her flip flop on the TPP very hard to stomach, but i felt the kind of bi-partisan vitriol that was heaped on her to be a little embarrassing (and ill informed).
Joe Biden seems, at the very least, to very much less hated that Hillary. by that metric, he is a way, way, way, way, wayyyyyyyyy better candidate than Mrs. Clinton could ever have hoped to be.
- IGIT