Joe Biden delivered what turned out to be a valedictory speech from the Oval Office earlier tonight. The speech lasted a little over 10 minutes, and was perhaps his best public appearance in several weeks. The speech hit all the right notes, at least in terms of tone, even if it never actually explains how Biden went from insisting he would remain in the race as recently as a week ago to deciding to “pass the torch to the next generation.” Nor did we get any explanation of why Biden now thinks he shouldn’t run again, nor why he reached that decision after he ran in fifty primaries while his party excluded any serious challenge to his candidacy.
The delivery was pretty decent, but he still slurred his words at times and tripped over them at others. He looked more alert than in the debate and in his Oval Office speech last week after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but…
