Joe Biden's campaign is going to be a parody of itself

Get your bingo cards ready for the debates, folks

Joe Biden.
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Here comes everybody. Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris and Beto and Mayor Pete and 15 others and, finally, Joe Biden. CNN reports that Biden will be formally announcing the launch of his presidential campaign today with an online video. Then, Axios tells us, he'll give a speech about "the moment" and "the kind of leadership" we need — i.e., his. Next he's going to a fundraiser with the executive vice president of Comcast.

You can't make this stuff up. Biden is said to have already begun making private calls to donors, most of whom are probably only too glad to pony up for what is being called a "third Obama term." Does anyone care about the fact that Biden has no discernible political agenda or ideas apart from his conviction that he is simply the man for the job? Does it matter that he has been in politics long enough to hold positions on whether gay people should be allowed to work for the federal government (his answer was no)? Shouldn't we all be a bit creeped out by his nonchalant dismissal of his own hair-sniffing antics as a desire to "connect" with people and by his bizarre sense of entitlement to our nation's highest office?

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.