Oh, what might have been. Our country could have been spared a lot of pain over the last few years if only Joe Biden had followed his instinct and retreated to Delaware in 2009 to tend to his garden.
You see, according to the Hur classified docs report, he came this close to renouncing his then-position as vice president in the Obama administration. If he had, he would have likely faded into obscurity and we’d remember him now as a mediocre senator and goofy VP.
Alas, even though he had been unexpectedly thrown back in the limelight when candidate Obama picked him as his running mate—after Biden had failed badly at two presidential campaigns of his own—he nevertheless thought of jumping ship because he objected to Obama’s Afghanistan policies. As Robert Gates famously said in his 2014 memoir, Joe Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national…
