Biden's last day on Ireland trip packs emotional punch
During a stop at Knock Shrine in County Mayo, the president was stunned to encounter the Catholic priest who had given the last rites to his late son, Beau, a White House official said.
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Ballina’s mayor has joked that the event might be one where Biden announces his reelection plans. Indeed, at times over the last three days, the support and encouragement the president has received from adoring crowds across his ancestral home counties and even from Irish lawmakers in Dublin Thursday energized a president abroad despite his shaky political standing at home. Biden is having “the time of his life,” Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday.
--- I wonder, when Joe gets back to the States and someone tells him what's actually happening across the globe .............. who am I kidding, haha... ain't nobody gonna tell him.
But the moments of high emotion also inform why one longtime Biden adviser said he still is reserving the right not to run. He has often noted that while he intends to run, he’s also a “respecter of fate.”
- he reserves the right not to run? WTF does that mean? No one HAS to run, you idiots.
“I’m at the end of my career, not the beginning,” Biden said toward the end of his remarks before Ireland’s parliament Thursday, noting that “you can see how old I am.”
“I come to the job with more experience than any president in American history. It doesn’t make me better or worse, but it gives me few excuses," he said
