Joe Biden Will Not Be The Next President



There comes a time in a Presidential campaign when some of the candidates have to accept the fact that they will not be the next President of these United States. Kindley exit stage left, gentlemen (Averted Gaze). Alan Keyes, for example, will not be flying Air Force One in the near future (unless he gets his pilots license and applies for the job). Neither will Senator Chris Dodd, though he is, by all accounts a decent man (some of that presently has to do with the fact that his old tomcatting buddy, Teddy "Boom-Boom" Kennedy is now a married man and has no sloppy seconds to parsel out). So why don't they -- those hapless candidates -- simply get out of the way?

Psychologically, it is not so difficult to comprehend. Senator Biden, for example, was won state-wide election in Delaware for the past three decades receiving only the slightest amount of competition in the process. Of course, America isn't Wilmington; it is alot easier to be a big fish in a little pond than to the the biggest cat in the jungle. But the seemless victories conditions a man, tempermentally, to continue to compete for higher offices. It must be confounding for someone with as many electoral victories as he, be confounded at achieving the highest office of the land.

The United States Senate is known to insiders as "the waiting room" because each and every one of the 100 memebers feel that they have what it takes to be President. Of course, statistics-wise, Governors -- who have managerial experience -- have histroically done better on the road to the White House. Foreign policy knowledge, with has a learning curve of 10 years to master, alas, has never really been a major factor in American Presidential races. If it did, to be sujre, Biden would be a shoo-in for the Oval Office. As would that glorious Bill Richardson.