SOME would argue that Joe Biden has been the most underrated politician in Washington. Indeed, it seems that more political obituaries have been written about him than about his rival Donald Trump.

The former Democratic Senator had failed in his first two runs for president, in 1988 and 2008. In 1988 he quit the contest after it was discovered that he gave a speech that was copied from Neil Kinnock, a British politician, and in 2008 he ended his campaign after not getting many votes in the Iowa caucus.

But then he was selected by the winner in the 2008 primaries, Barack Obama, as his running mate, although many political observers suggested that Senator Biden was too old for the job, not to mention his reputation for often saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, those famous “Biden gaffes”.