With the Hillary Clinton announcement looming, it’s almost as though a personal dream is dying. Obviously, when the woman who is owed at least Quixotic shot at the Presidency, having been bested by a first-term Senator from a flyover state only a few short years ago, enters the race, the man, the myth and the legend, Mr. Joe Biden, will likely have to bow out.

This is disappointing on so many levels. First, the bumper sticker that reads “I’m Ridin’ With Biden” that I bought from the Draft Biden campaign will now look more like a relic of a bygone era. Second, Joe Biden will never get to buy that campaign Corvette Z06 that he’s been looking forward to since he first got into this game. And third, we’re going to miss so many fantastic political moments, like that time Joe Biden took a pacifier from a former NYC mayor’s grandson and sucked it in his face. 

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I like that the baby, Jasper Bloomberg, doesn’t seem to be all that concerned. He knows that this is Joe Biden and this is just a thing he does. In fact, as many others before him, he knows that the best thing to do is to politely allow Joe Biden to get the activity out of his system and tell it to a therapist later.