Article from The Hill

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The unBidening of Joe Biden


We are on to you, Joe Biden.

First, our favorite overtalking senator from Delaware started censoring himself in his presidential campaign. In debates, he would literally stop talking long before he was silenced by a moderator.

Then we couldn’t help but notice that he stopped putting his feet in his mouth. Not since February has Biden’s loquaciousness gotten him into trouble. (That one was a doozy, though, when he called fellow Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois “articulate and bright and clean.”)

Last week, the fingerprints began to show from what must have been some very powerful coaching sessions.

For example, he recounted on the Senate floor a meeting in which he asked a group of ambassadors: “‘What would you do, gentlemen’ — one lady, the British ambassador, is a woman — I said, ‘What would you do, gentlemen and lady? …’”

Apparently, Biden recently reached the chapter entitled “Always use gender-nonspecific language.”

Suddenly, Biden has become the master of the corrective digression, immediately clarifying that he meant to include women. In another case, he noted the Iraqi Parliament might need some guidance, saying, “My goodness, maybe we should be talking to these guys. And women. Mostly guys, 99 percent.”

So, all right, we get that Biden has to polish up a bit if he is every going to catch up in this brutal presidential race.

We do miss the gaffes, though. Without them, how will we know you, Senator?