Subject: Re: Politico says it out loud about Biden
But those aren't the goal posts you laid out. You questioned whether Biden was making his own decisions, not whether he might have difficulty with fulfilling his duties if he were re-elected.

Indeed I did, and he's having difficulty doing his job right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0...
https://archive.is/YkCdL

On Thursday, President Gustavo Petro of Colombia met with Mr. Biden, but the two did not hold a news conference together, another practice of his predecessors that Mr. Biden has frequently chosen to skip. After the meeting, Mr. Petro took questions from reporters — alone — at microphones in front of the West Wing.
And despite his press secretary pledging that Mr. Biden would “bring transparency and truth back to the government,” in his first two years, the president granted the fewest interviews since Mr. Reagan’s presidency: only 54. (Donald J. Trump gave 202 during the first two years of his presidency; Barack Obama gave 275.)

Back to the thread:
The democratic party - like the GOP - is a coalition. There are different factions in the coalition, and Team Biden is only one of them. Other factions - like the old Clintonian group that Carville's a part of - have their own political interests and goals, and it's advantageous for them to take some minor shots at Biden to set themselves up for whatever happens after his Presidency. So too with Obamaworld. But that doesn't mean that anyone in the party has the ability to "veto" Biden's decision whether to run for the nomination or not, nor the ability to deny him the nomination if he chooses to run.

There are a lot of people with influence in the democrat party (and in the GOP). Superdelegates. The people with the money. Unions. Party honchos like Axelrod. More. All of them are going to look at Biden and do a risk/benefit analysis of dumping the nearly $1 billion dollars it costs to elect a US President.