Biden's a 'nice guy', but is that enough to win?

A FRIEND of mine worked for many years on the staff of former senator Joe Biden, when the then-lawmaker from Delaware served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And whenever we talked about her boss, it was always the same: "Joe is the nicest guy in the world," she kept telling me.

After she once caught a bad case of flu, forcing her to stay at home, "Joe" would phone her every day to ask how she was doing. One day, he showed up in her apartment with a bowl of soup to cheer her up.

Recalling that experience a few weeks ago, just as 77-year-old candidate Biden was preparing to run against the current occupant of the White House, my friend added: "Could you imagine President (Donald) Trump doing that?"