This is very long and I can't say I finished it, but it's the raw notes from Josh Marshall's interview with Joe Biden back in 2004. What's interesting is not so much what he says - classic liberal interventionism - but how he says it. It's just...weird. You get a sense of where the gaffes come from, as he talks before he thinks. It all just rushes out.
I'm clearly on the record as being opposed to septuagenarians in the White House, and reading Biden's ADD conversational style and excessive self-love, I'm doubling down on that feeling.
At some point, the brain stops growing. It struggles to adapt to new information. That's a major concern of mine and why we have already seen how Trump and Sanders get locked in to a certain narrative and understanding of the world.
Policies matter when we vote, but the reality is that temperament and the interplay between principles and intellectual flexibility is most important in good leadership. I worry about the accumulated weight of fixed positions on Sanders and Biden.
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