Give Joe Biden this much credit — he stayed up past his bedtime. And mine, and pretty much everyone’s east of the Colorado River. For some reason, the organizers of the Democrats’ national convention let the schedule slide more than an hour by the time their 81-year-old retiring incumbent had planned on taking the stage.
The DNC later blamed this on the amount of applause each speaker got. Sure, pals.
For those of us who went to bed rather than watch Red-Eye Joe, and “us” includes me, we could have skipped it and just replayed Biden’s State of the Union speech from March. Or really, any of his campaign speeches he gave before flaming out in the June 27th debate. With only a few tweaks to note that he was no longer the candidate, Biden gave a vigorous reading of his usual demagoguery and fabulism for just under an hour in Chicago.
How do I know this? I read the transcript. He…
