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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Every morning, I cringe at a new revelation concerning some fool media celebrity effusively mouthing those four unpalatable words "I love Joe Biden". I think: "Indeed, then go plant a wet kiss on the man's face and tell him that demented folks rarely know they're as sick as they are."

Then I think, hell, my friend P and I are much better qualified. We're both Septuagenarians, pointing out that we have great qualifications compared to other available candidates — not habitual liars, never started a war or killed anyone, no Putin/Russia/China derangement, understand the meaning of the words “diplomacy” and “compromise”, would make someone like Jeff Sachs our Sec. of State. Having both worked in diverse arenas (including “national security”), we recognize our experiential advantages over lifelong politicians or pure businessmen. But we also recognize our age-related memory limitations, and make appropriate compensations, unlike (among our extant candidates) demented folks who believe themselves to be fine, pompous bloviators who believe themselves omniscient, and guffawing hyenas whose greatest accomplishment was putting more poor minorities in jail.

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Leon Brown, Jr.'s avatar

Caitlin, you are speaking the tragic, irrefutable TRUTH (once again). Just brilliant commentary and analysis. Tremendous.

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