No one seems to pay any attention to Joe Biden. He prowls the rust belt like a character from an earlier era, like from the pages of All the King's Men or Citizen Kane, drawing crowds bigger than the Celebrity from Nowhere and talking about things that matter. Jobs. Manufacturing. Trade. Kitchen table economics, the things that will decide this pivotal election. Yet, the mass media seem to have agreed to ignore him unless they decide something he says is a "gaffe". That's all that would fit their prearranged narrative for Joe. "We called him gaffe-prone, so unless we call something he says a gaffe, it'll be a gaffe on our part." I can imagine that sentence, fully formed, in Wolf Blitzer's furry little head.
Joe Biden is a huge asset to the Obama campaign, not as some eminence grise content to ride in the sidecar, but one who has more often than not had the right of it. Yeah, I thought he was a little too angry in the primaries, but that may be why Obama picked him. Somebody should be angry, because working-class Americans are (or should be), and Obama himself can't seem too pissed or all of a sudden he's Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, the scary black man come to shoot us or at the very least drink our Sprite.
So let the media ignore Biden. Let them shower attention on the upjumped Naif of the North and her Abe Simpsoneque Henry Higgins. Biden will keep on winning votes of white, Catholic, male Americans who are tired of being told they won't vote Democratic because somebody ate some arugula.
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