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How do you stumble and yet land stronger than ever? How do you stumble and yet ensure it is your opponents who end up on their butts?
Call it the Biden two-step. Every so often, like each and every one of us, the president makes a misstep. It titillates his opponents. As usual, they zero in on the trivial just as they did yesterday when Biden, just like many of his predecessors before him, while keeping a schedule that would make most of us weep, had a slight mishap during the graduation ceremony at the Air Force Academy.
The media helped those opponents out with copious coverage. “Ahah!” said the talking heads as they reflexively turned the subject once again to the president’s age.