Joe Biden vs. the most interesting man in the world

Is being boring enough to win the presidency?

Joe Biden.
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Joe Biden is in fact running for president.

You might have heard of the guy. Was a senator for pretty much his entire life, opposed busing, routinely bragged about things like how “thanks to the leadership of Sen. [Strom] Thurmond” you could go to prison for having “a piece of crack cocaine no bigger than this quarter” without any judicial recourse, then got to be vice president. After that he complained his way through a series of primary debates with roughly 600 other would-be Democratic candidates until they all decided to drop out. Then the DNC gave him the nomination and he disappeared into the sunken place, where the independent candidate who might give him a run for his money in Oklahoma was previously exiled.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.