...I feel I was too hard on Biden in my last, for the dreadful thing about mental acuity and age is no fault can be placed on the sufferer, other than perhaps the stubborn refusal to admit age, something of which I am certainly guilty.

The true villains are his campaign and his advisors. For them I cannot express enough vitriol both for putting him in the situation and for caving to his unreasonable stubbornness in carrying on, both during and after that debacle. Mike Donilon has to bear the most responsibility.

One has to wonder if his campaign really just found themselves in the position of an all-or-naught gamble. They lost that bet.

I don't feel, deep in my gut, that droves will be driven by this reality check to change their vote to that most despicable and unprincipled of charlatans instead. More likely I hear the multitude heading to the sidelines, unable to vote for one and unwilling to vote for the other, walking off the pitch in despair.