Oh, Joe? Oh, Joe? Where did you go?
We are nine weeks out from a presidential election that will doubtless be the most analyzed and argued-over election in living memory, regardless of who wins. Both major-party candidates are starting to go at each other hammer and tongs. It’s just starting to get interesting now, with the traditional post-Labor Day start to the sprint-to-the-finish stage of the campaign now at hand. But while that spectacle is underway, it’s easy to forget that the current president is supposedly still in charge in Washington.
Why is it so easy to forget? Because he seems to be on a permanent vacation. In my years in Uncle Sam’s colors, some of the guys approaching their retirement dates went on a definite, let’s say, taper-down as they got shorter and shorter. These guys were referred to as ROADies – Retired On Active Duty. I guess that makes Joe Biden a PROADie…
