A sitting president reduced to an afterthought delivers an off-Broadway farewell to Democrats.
Since Joe Biden was willing to accept the humiliation of being forced out of his campaign for reelection, perhaps it follows that he would be amenable to accepting the final indignity of delivering his farewell address at his party’s convention on a night usually reserved for second- and third-tier speakers. Indeed, the unconventional decision to have the sitting president speak on the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) – as opposed to either not speaking at all or being placed in a prominent slot on a succeeding night – was undoubtedly the product of a tortured compromise.
To add to the indignity, the DNC ran so far behind schedule on its opening night that the president did not even appear until…
