Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Biden Bye-ku

With a hat tip to James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal who popularized the form, I write a bye-ku for Vice President Biden who today announced he will not seek the presidency in 2016.

Adieu, Joe Biden.
So long in indecision 
You seem'd like Hamlet.

Yesterday we misdescribed his activity as "not the behavior of a lame-duck VP heading quietly into retirement." Analyst Sean Trende, whose work we cited with approval, also has some word-swallowing to do.