YOU MEAN JOE FOUND OUT? – AT 2:46 P.M. ET:  Joe Biden is on the campaign trail, with reports saying he may run for president in 2020.  Biden is, by all accounts, a very decent man, but I always thought he was a little weak in the policy department.  He may get this part right, however.  From Breitbart: 

Former Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he is “angry” that some leading Democrats just “don’t get it” when it comes to understanding the dignity of work and concerns of working-class Americans.

Biden was in Pennsylvania campaigning for Democrat Conor Lamb, a candidate for Congress in next week’s special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th District. The former vice president told the crowd that he grew up “watching aunts, uncles, friends,” and neighbors losing jobs, and that his dad told him that a job was about “dignity,” “respect,” and “and your place in your community.”

“They don’t get it. Some people in my party don’t even get it anymore. It’s about our pride. It’s about our dignity.It’s about who the hell we are and what we’ve done,” he said. “It makes me angry. It makes me angry.”

Biden also slammed Republicans who are threatening to cut Social Security and Medicare, telling the crowd, “You paid for it. You paid for it.”

COMMENT:  A remarkable statement by Biden, but in fact he's one of the few Democratic leaders who actually feels connected to working people.  Most of the party is obsessed with race, gender, and ethnicity, and little else. 

I doubt if Biden will run in 2020.  He'd be up against advancing age and, more important, the probability that party activists will insist on a minority, so they can feel good about themselves.   It's a big comedown from the party of Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy, but none of them could come close to a presidential nomination in today's Democratic Party.

March 7, 2017