Biden campaigns in his Ray Bans in 2020. Photo by Jim Watson/ AFP via Getty Images
So yeah, Biden was admittedly, approximately our 17th choice for President. And while he started out strong and bracingly progressive, in his first year he has often floundered, winning some, losing many - too often because he somehow still believes, even now, in the tired myth of bipartisan civility. For once, on Monday, he spoke truth to malevolent idiocy in the blathering form of Fox News hack Peter Doocy. And manyapplauded: "Today is the day Joe Biden became presidential."
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Abby ZimetAbby Zimet has written CD's Further column since 2008. A longtime, award-winning journalist, she moved to the Maine woods in the early 70s, where she spent a dozen years building a house, hauling water and writing before moving to Portland. Having come of political age during the Vietnam War, she has long been involved in women's, labor, anti-war, social justice and refugee rights issues. Email: azimet18@gmail.com
So yeah, Biden was admittedly, approximately our 17th choice for President. And while he started out strong and bracingly progressive, in his first year he has often floundered, winning some, losing many - too often because he somehow still believes, even now, in the tired myth of bipartisan civility. For once, on Monday, he spoke truth to malevolent idiocy in the blathering form of Fox News hack Peter Doocy. And manyapplauded: "Today is the day Joe Biden became presidential."
