That is the kind of man Joe Biden is.
For thirty-six years in the Senate, as the New York Times reminds us, Biden never lived in Washington.
Why? Biden lost his wife and daughter to a tragic car accident in 1972. He was sworn in to the Senate at his sons' bedsides — they had been critically injured in the crash but recovered.
So Biden made the choice to spend four hours a day in transit so his sons wouldn’t be uprooted — and so he could be there for them as they grew up.
Friends and colleagues said that in all the decades Mr. Biden worked in Washington, he never had much of a social life there. He rarely stuck around for an evening fund-raiser or a cocktail party. He was not a regular at typical lawmaker haunts like the Capital Grille or Charlie Palmer, instead inviting people to the Senate dining room if he happened to be in town for dinner.
“I think he was far more interested in his children than the social whirl,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a longtime Biden friend.
[Former Senator Ted] Kaufman, who has been a close Biden friend since the 1970s, said Mr. Biden was damaged politically by his absence on the social scene.
“He did not participate in it,” Mr. Kaufman said. “To be honest, it was a real hindrance, because when he ran for president in ’87, people didn’t know him. You could probably count on two hands the number of embassy functions he went to.”
It was more important to Biden to see his kids every night and every morning.
That is the kind of man Joe Biden is.
And he has shown that in how he has shepherded this country.
Is there still more work to be done? 100%! Lots more work. But Biden has done so much more than many people guessed could be done. He deserves a lot of credit. AND he deserves to be re-elected.
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