Joe Biden 2016? Vice President Won't Close Door On Future White House Run

Vice President Joe Biden is keeping his political options open for 2016, he said Thursday on NBC's "Today" show.

"I am never ready to close the door on anything. That's just a foolish thing to do," he said in response to a question about his presidential aspirations. "I learned a long time ago, my dad used to have an expression, he said 'Joey remember, never argue with your wife about anything that's gonna happen more than a year from now, and don't make decisions about anything that's gonna happen more than a year from now.'"

Regardless of his future plans, Biden said he was maintaining his focus on the 2012 election and making sure President Obama gets a second term.

"I am intent on reelecting Barack Obama president of the United State of America, the rest will take care of itself," Biden said.

Biden has consistently refused to count himself out as a potential presidential candidate in 2016.

In October, he said another White House run was certainly not out of the question, and that he'd make up his mind on the issue later.

"I wouldn't have run for president in the first place and I don't think the president would have picked me unless he thought I'd be good at the job," Biden said then.

Biden ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, but dropped out after a finishing fifth place in the Iowa Caucus.

Comments

[mw21]

04:08 PM on 12/01/2011

I love Biden. Would support him in anything. Because I trust him. This is a man who had been in the Senate since the late '70s. Rode the train to work like he was one of us. Had the lowest net worth of all in the Senate when he could have easily parlayed his position and inside information into a vast fortune. That tells me one thing--he isn't in it for the money and that makes him a very rare individual in D.C.

[miketothad]

03:41 PM on 12/01/2011

People freakin' LOVE Joe. If he runs, I'll support him.

[beartrack]

03:19 PM on 12/01/2011

I would have rather seen Joe on the top of the ticket in 2008 then Obama could have learned to be a stand up guy rather than a roll-over guy. I'm thinking Joe at the top in 2016 with Liz Warren as VP.
Wouldn't be so bad if Obama got primaried in 2012 to shake him up.

[obamathegreat235]

03:15 PM on 12/01/2011

Joe Biden 2016? Vice President Won't Close Door On Future White House Run"-----Sounds superb to me.

[simpleperson]

03:07 PM on 12/01/2011

My money is that Hillary will run again in 2016...and win.

[beartrack]

03:20 PM on 12/01/2011

Hillary is tainted by her State Dept, secrect wars and other disgracefull activity with Blackwater and other contracts she has made.

[BBackSoon]

04:19 PM on 12/01/2011

Lots of baggage there.

[senator11]

02:51 PM on 12/01/2011

Poor Joe doesn't even realize that Barack will be dropping him from the ticket in 2012. But, after 39 years of being on the federal teat, it is time for Joe to be moving on.....enough damage done.

[mw21]

04:10 PM on 12/01/2011

On the federal teat? You obviously don't know much about this guy.

[jsgaetano]

04:23 PM on 12/01/2011

Conservatives- delusional as always.

[beardown]

02:44 PM on 12/01/2011

Bidden isn't going to be VP in 2012! There's no chance of him being Pres. in 2016!

[dmsdzinr]

02:31 PM on 12/01/2011

Elizabeth Warren 2016!

[IndependentTogether]

02:31 PM on 12/01/2011

I like Biden, but I'd actually be motivated to vote for HRC in 2016... should she decide to run.

[FormerlyTCnSRQ]

02:13 PM on 12/01/2011

Cuomo.

[BryanTheRegOps]

02:11 PM on 12/01/2011

Oh god nooooo!!!
Please. Can we get an actual Progressive to run for president? I’m sick of these corporatist Democrats, Clintons and Obama. Give me Elizabeth Warren, Russ Feingold or Gavin Newson.

[jbrtwork]

01:31 PM on 12/01/2011

NOOOOOOOOO!!!! I want Elizabeth Warren and Alan Grayson for VP. Time for some real progressives.

[Assumed Name]

01:54 PM on 12/01/2011

...the US is pretty far right.

[deltalady]

02:06 PM on 12/01/2011

Amen to that. Alan Grayson called me a few weeks ago out the blue. I had left him a message of appreciation when he had taken on the Reps and their healthcare plan. He called to thank me for my call and we spoke for quite awhile about how the banks and Wall Street have stolen us blind. I would definitely support him for any ticket. By 2016 with our luck, all the pepsodent smile, $1000 suit polished sold out politicians will be well to becoming extinct and we can have REAL people give us REAL representation. We need new faces. No one in Congress now has any true idea of the misery we're all facing in our daily lives and with president chasing campaign cash, we have no one to look to for help.

[nicothebaker]

01:11 PM on 12/01/2011

If there is one thing we've learned from this administration, it is that Biden is known as an even bigger idiot than we already knew.

[Sad But True]

02:07 PM on 12/01/2011

How so? Granted, he's been known to say some strange things, but I'm curious to know the root of your agenda.

[beartrack]

03:13 PM on 12/01/2011

Joe just tells the truth, in a somewhat untactfull way sometimes. The "root" of nicothe baker's agenda in the GOP manure.

[deltalady]

02:08 PM on 12/01/2011

He's in Iraq making whatever deal he can to keep us there...we're "bringing them home" alright, then sending them right back after the election. This is three card monte with the lives of our servicemen and women. The billion dollar embassy will remain and the high dollar contractors, whose bosses pay this administration and Congress, will keep sucking our treasury dry.

[rubyfowler]

12:33 PM on 12/01/2011

Joe who?

[Torpedo54]

12:27 PM on 12/01/2011

No Thanks, it's time to rid D.C. of these career politicians who feed off of the K St. Lobbiests.

[jsgaetano]

04:29 PM on 12/01/2011

Yeah, time for all the Teabaggers and other conservative parasites to be thrown out of government.