I am 81 years old. I am not running for President of the United States. Eighty is an age that consumes relentlessly. It presents visual challenges, plays with the mind, messes with the limbs, garbles syntax, disassociates memory from fact. To name a few. Also among the many reasons I am not running for the presidency is that few people have actually heard of me, and many of those who have might not consider me to be presidential timber. That brings us to Joe Biden: Though I very much dislike his policies, I wince but don’t laugh at his gaffes...