The Inexhaustible Vice President, Or: Of Hogs, Acorns and Joe Biden

The Inexhaustible Vice President, Or: Of Hogs, Acorns and Joe Biden

The worst gaffe a politician can make, it's been said, is not the mistakes he makes on the campaign trail but when he tells the truth. The vice president of the United States, who's a kind of genius at embarrassing himself, did it again the other day when, almost in passing, he mentioned the hallmark of this president's stewardship of the American economy, "the middle class that has been buried these past four years."

Oops. Even a blind hog will stumble across an acorn now and then, but this time the vice president had hit on an essential truth, one...