<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-nH gmail-aHU" style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-nH gmail-hx" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34);min-width:502px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-nH" role="list"><div class="gmail-h7 gmail-ie gmail-nH gmail-oy8Mbf" role="listitem" aria-expanded="true" tabindex="-1" style="clear:both;padding-bottom:0px;max-width:100000px;outline:none"><div class="gmail-Bk" style="margin-bottom:0px;border-width:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:rgb(239,239,239);border-right-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-radius:0px;float:left;width:936px"><div class="gmail-G3 gmail-G2" style="padding-top:0px;background-color:transparent;border-right:0px;border-bottom:0px rgba(100,121,143,0.12);border-left:0px;border-top:none;border-radius:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px"><div id="gmail-:15p"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:864px"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:15s" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem"><div id="gmail-:15r" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:hidden"><div>(I may have sent this from an incorrect Email address. I have too damned many)</div><div> Sorry<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Well well well. No matter what you may think of whethe<span style="background-color:transparent">Well well well. No matter what you may think of whether our current President has what it takes to have the job he got elected to, or to run again for the Octogenarian-in-Chief in 2024, you gotta admit the ship of State is a little steadier than when He-who-shall-not-be-named was rocking the boat. This gives me the inspiration to write number 15 in the Adventures of Joe Biden saga (again with a nod to Ogden Nash's Adventures of Isabel):</span></div><div class="gmail-nH gmail-aHU" style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-nH gmail-hx" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34);min-width:502px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-nH" role="list"><div class="gmail-h7 gmail-ie gmail-nH gmail-oy8Mbf" role="listitem" aria-expanded="true" tabindex="-1" style="clear:both;padding-bottom:0px;max-width:100000px;outline:none"><div class="gmail-Bk" style="margin-bottom:0px;border-width:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:rgb(239,239,239);border-right-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-radius:0px;float:left;width:936px"><div class="gmail-G3 gmail-G2" style="padding-top:0px;background-color:transparent;border-right:0px;border-bottom:0px rgba(100,121,143,0.12);border-left:0px;border-top:none;border-radius:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px"><div id="gmail-:15p"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:864px"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:15s" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem"><div id="gmail-:15r" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Adventures of Joe Biden 15</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Joe Biden half-way through his first two years</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Faced the prediction of Red Wave fears;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kevin was licking his chops at the thought</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Of taking the Speakership, which he’d l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