Joe Biden, D-Forever, is as uninspiring a candidate as Hillary Clinton. Clinton ran her last presidential campaign the way a state representative does if he's running unopposed.

But she wasn't crazy.

How we long for "not crazy"!

Biden's main campaign plank is that he's not crazy, not even a little.

He may be more confused than he ought to be, but he is most definitely not crazy. Not loony. Not crackers. Not koo-koo.

He is, in short, not crazy.

He is an adaptable politician with a spotty history as regards civil rights, and a fair knowledge of foreign affairs.

It's a bad year, is 2020. I put on a mask so as not to get a virus, and crazy people tell me I might as well use the Constitution as a doormat. Well, not all of them are crazy. Some of them are radio and television commentators who have discovered that crazy people are an extremely loyal audience. They tell me my mask is an affront to the Constitution because saying that pays for the beach house, the Percocets, and the multiple divorces.

Oh, yeah. Joe Biden is boring as hell, and his wife isn't made of plastic and forged immigration documents, but he's as normal as your own dimwitted state rep., who appears regularly in church, shows up at all ribbon cuttings, and who can at least pretend to like the black people in her district.

This column job doesn't come with a crystal ball. I didn't think Pres. Donald Trump was crazy during his first campaign. I thought he sounded crude and stupid, but I figured he might have learned to speak a little crude and stupid so he could appeal to crude, stupid voters. Politicians often learn a few words in another language.

"Gracias, mi amigo," says candidate Trey Wilson, hefting a taco, campaigning in el barrio."Oy gevalt! This is good," Trey Wilson says, munching on a bagel in a Jewish neighborhood. Sometimes those few mangled words are all the candidate has to offer the, what do call 'em, "el voteros"?

Turned out I was wrong. I was so wrong I'm surprised I wasn't appointed secretary of education. Trump didn't just sound crude and stupid, he WAS crude and stupid.

But even crude and stupid won't carry you forever. We had riots in the country. We had a pandemic.

And Trump couldn't do it. You can't bully a virus, and the rioters were way past being threatened, and Trump cracked. He babbles now, endlessly insisting on a "hero garden" and a "space force" and a bunch of other stuff that doesn't exist and wouldn't help if it did exist.

Trump has what my World War II veteran father called, "a rip in his sea bag," and we have to get shed of him before he summons the Ghostbusters to get the big marshmallow man out of his back garden.

Joe Biden? Hell, no, I wouldn't vote for Biden, not if the present occupant of the White House wasn't seeing things. Biden is skilled in a minor sort of way, but he's boring. And he's not capable of much original thought. Still, he's not crazy, and he can probably hold the wheel steady long enough for us to get the maniac drool out of the White House rugs and drapes. Biden will declare war on neither Canada nor Connecticut.

Way I see it is, Joe Biden keeps things on a steady course for four years while the whole country hunts around for a president who has the spark of greatness.

We may not find it, either. We've already wasted so much time.

To find out more about Marc Munroe Dion and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Dion's latest book, "Devil's Elbow: Dancing in the Ashes of America," is a collection of his most sane columns. It is available in paperback from Amazon.com, and for Nook, Kindle, GooglePlay and iBooks.

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