Charlie Pierce reposted something he said about Biden back in 2012 just before his "debate" with Paul Ryan to explain what happened last night. He's right:
"Joe Biden is not riven with self-doubt. Joe Biden is not exhausted by the hurly-burly of politics. Joe Biden is not burdened by the weight of events and laid low by the constant battl…
Charlie Pierce reposted something he said about Biden back in 2012 just before his "debate" with Paul Ryan to explain what happened last night. He's right:
"Joe Biden is not riven with self-doubt. Joe Biden is not exhausted by the hurly-burly of politics. Joe Biden is not burdened by the weight of events and laid low by the constant battle against know-nothing obstructionism. Joe Biden is not going to take the stage tonight and find himself wishing he were anywhere else. I mean, god be good to him, as my gran' used to say, but Joe Biden actually likes all these silly performance pieces in which we insist he be engaged in order to stay vice-president. He revels in them. He would do ten of them a day, if he could. When I consider Joe Biden, and I look at the enthusiasm with which he throws himself into the various cataracts and torrents of hogwash that constitute our politics these days, I find myself looking at him the way I look at people who sky-dive or drive in demolition derbies. I have no idea why they do what they do, and I have absolutely no intention of doing it myself, ever, but, goddamn, do those people look like they're having fun."
My husband worked many years as a skydive tandom instructor (he was the guy you were belted to, on a trial fall ;). And now I understand Joe Biden much better. We really got who we needed, and I thank our lucky stars.
Charlie Pierce reposted something he said about Biden back in 2012 just before his "debate" with Paul Ryan to explain what happened last night. He's right:
"Joe Biden is not riven with self-doubt. Joe Biden is not exhausted by the hurly-burly of politics. Joe Biden is not burdened by the weight of events and laid low by the constant battle against know-nothing obstructionism. Joe Biden is not going to take the stage tonight and find himself wishing he were anywhere else. I mean, god be good to him, as my gran' used to say, but Joe Biden actually likes all these silly performance pieces in which we insist he be engaged in order to stay vice-president. He revels in them. He would do ten of them a day, if he could. When I consider Joe Biden, and I look at the enthusiasm with which he throws himself into the various cataracts and torrents of hogwash that constitute our politics these days, I find myself looking at him the way I look at people who sky-dive or drive in demolition derbies. I have no idea why they do what they do, and I have absolutely no intention of doing it myself, ever, but, goddamn, do those people look like they're having fun."
My husband worked many years as a skydive tandom instructor (he was the guy you were belted to, on a trial fall ;). And now I understand Joe Biden much better. We really got who we needed, and I thank our lucky stars.
Another post puts a big smile on my face. It's true!!!
Nailed it! Thanks for sharing this TC!