If Biden can’t keep his talking points straight for an entire evening, what shape will he be in after running the gauntlet between today and his televised showdowns with the president next fall?
Runner whom the race outran? Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images The Democratic frontrunner cannot speak in complete sentences when he is feeling tired or defensive. And 90 minutes of debate is enough to make him tired. And a reference to something that he said about race in the 1970s is enough to make him defensive.
But then, I may just be a biased coastal elite who doesn’t get it. Maybe my perception is so distorted by infatuation with unelectable socialists that I have been hallucinating a senescent old codger where a spry elder statesmen actually stands.
So maybe I just can’t see straight on this subject. To my eyes, the following exchange between Biden and ABC News’s Linsey Davis on the question of our collective responsibility for slavery reads like dialogue from an obscure Beckett play — but to an objective observer, perhaps this reads as a thoughtful, cogent answer from a man manifestly equipped to be the next president of the United States:
In all earnestness, I do think Donald Trump is an unusually weak incumbent. And it’s quite plausible to me that in our modern, polarized era, campaigns just don’t matter very much. So, maybe now that Democrats understand Trump really can win the presidency, they will mobilize behind any standard-bearer, no matter how bizarre his or her syntax. Meanwhile, low-information swing voters may never tune into the debates; or if they do, they may not take any exception to Biden’s stumbles.
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