“”He’s probably already working on excuses to use on debate day, so as not to do the debate....I’m sick....my dog died....my car is in the shop so I can’t get there....this is the anniversary of my great great great uncle’s bother-in-laws’ cousins’ death””
You forgot one. I don’t recall exactly but at one session in DC many, many years ago, he turned up late because of a “root canal.” Iran/Contra? Watergate? I really don’t remember but I do remember that. He came into the room, took his seat and made his apologies!!!
This is it!!! I guess it wasn’t as old as I thought it was but at least I’m not losing it YET!
By Newsday | October 14, 1991
WASHINGTON — First, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden, D-Del., had the national headache of presiding over the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Then at 2 a.m. Saturday, he had a root canal.Committee aides said that one of Biden’s teeth began hurting while he was presiding over the first day of hearings Friday. The pain in the tooth got so bad that early Saturday morning Biden called a dentist. But a few hours after the root canal, he was back on the job — though when out of public sight, a friend said, “he was wearing a big ice pack on his mouth.”