Biden substance: his campaign is not just a photo-op

[bucolic_frolic]

I was glam struck yesterday with Joe Biden's speech in Warm Springs, Georgia. Do we all appreciate the credibility, the political gravitas, that this event pulled together? Joe Biden, whether through his experience, skill, insight, staff management, personnel, has threaded the needle on distinctly American historical events - FDR at Warm Springs and Lincoln at Gettysburg - and contemporary themes and issues of division and unity, health crisis, and freedoms our ancestors fought for. He called FDR's death at Warm Springs something like 'every bit a casualty of war as those who died on the battlefields.' Surely, true as can be. The stress of the war and the cigarettes and martinis that kept him going were major factors in his too young passing. It took Joe Biden to mention it - it's not an observation I found in biographies of FDR.

Any candidate can choose a backdrop photo-op and deliver a good speech. But to tie them together because the substance matches the locale, and have the locales match themes of crises we have faced and are now facing - that is simply remarkable. And to do it in a bipartisan way!

Someone really should tell Chuck Toad there's a lot more than optics going on here.

[Sherman A1]

1. K&R

[ms liberty]

2. When he pulled out FDR and held him up as an example

My heart sang. We need a 21st century version of an FDR.

Joe is rising to the moment so well and he's really impressing me in a way I wasn't expecting. He has grown into the person we need and embraced the challenges of the times we're in.