Biden calculateur: a-t-il exploité la mort de son fils?

Les Américains ont été touchés par le décès du fils de Joe Biden et ont affiché beaucoup de sympathie pour la famille. Sur son lit de mort, Beau Biden aurait demandé à son père de se présenter pour l'investiture démocrate, un souhait auquel l'actuel Vice-Président dit réfléchir depuis le moins d'août. Si on ne peut douter de la sincérité du chagrin du père, on peut se demander jusqu'à quel point il exploite cette situation dans sa stratégie. C'est Joe Biden lui-même qui aurait coulé dans la presse l'information concernant le voeux de son fils.

 "Biden has portrayed his decision about a 2016 run as purely emotional, a question of whether he and has family have the strength. That’s a big part of it. But it’s not all of it.

By every account of those surrounding Biden, Beau is constantly on his father’s mind. But so are Clinton’s poll numbers — and his own, as the vice president notes in private details, such as the crosstab data that show him drawing more support from Clinton than Bernie Sanders. So is the prospect of what it would mean to run against a candidate who would make history as the first female nominee, and potentially first female president. So is knowing that the filing deadlines are quickly closing in and that he almost certainly has to decide in roughly the next week to make even a seat-of-the-pants campaign possible.

“Calculation sort of sounds crass, but I guess that’s what it is,” said one person who’s recently spoken to Biden about the prospect of running. “The head is further down the road than the heart is.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/joe-biden-beau-2016-214459