Joe Biden knew his children, his grandchildren. He made the case, I thought, compellingly.īut, more than anything else about the convention, to me, I was reminded of the words of the poet Maya Angelou, who said, people will forget what you did, people will forget what you said, but people will not forget how you made them feel.Īnd the vignettes about Joe Biden from Greg Weaver of Amtrak, who suffered a heart attack, a conductor. It was - in many respects, it was a great advantage to have the remote convention, because Joe's tendency often is to win everybody in the room, and which he tries to do and does when he's speaking.īut, here, he had 24 minutes. After four years of Democrats waiting for him, his being circumspect and restrained, he arrived with a full-throated indictment of Donald Trump, and Donald Trump's failure to lead, and Donald Trump's failure to protect the country in its great crisis, and basically made the case that Donald Trump did not devote the time, energy, effort, and probably did not have the capacity to be president.īut I think - and I agree with David about Joe Biden.
It was a very, very positive convention, make no mistake about it.īarack Obama being the big surprise.
