“Setbacks are unavoidable,” Joe Biden told a Rose Garden audience and nation on TV, “but giving up is unforgivable.” So went the valediction of [checks notes] the first major-party elected nominee to give up his slot before the election. Voluntarily, or so the story goes.
Of course, Biden also credited Kamala Harris as having a “ramrod” spine, two days after [checks notes] Harris ran away from her own rally and sent an aide to thank her supporters for showing up. Ahem, indeed.
On the other hand, one has to be grateful for Biden’s gracious words about the coming transition. We didn’t get that eight years ago, when Democrats spent the time after Election Day accusing Donald Trump of being a Russian agent, and we sure didn’t get that four years ago either. Biden expressed a desire to “bring down the temperature” this time, which certainly should earn him kudos…
