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Grassroots Rally with Joe Biden by Doug McVadon

His whole job is creating a new possibility. He creates it in the listening of others, whom he has never met, yet with whom he claims and creates a profound sense of kinship. And he does it by acknowledgment. Talking about a populist, a man who obviously lives for those moments in front of people, in front of the cameras, in front of the whole damn country, willing to be ridiculed and to expose his flaws, for a cause he believes to be a mighty one. Talking about Joe Biden. He got me, in person, in a way I wasn’t expecting. His message was predictable, about protecting Medicare and looking out for the middle class, but his authenticity was not. Politician. We spit the word out with disdain. Joe gives back the luster to the profession by demonstrating it: he was informed (lots of facts and figures which he openly challenged the assembled press to check, saying “they ought to!”); he was funny, by noticing what was going on, not by reciting jokes; he was PRESENT and di