Joe Biden sure does have a way of putting things. He told fellow Democrats Friday that they should be optimistic about the future of our nation but then followed up with these observations: “It always surprises me when we don’t have the degree of optimism that we should about the state of the nation,” Biden said. “And in spite of who’s president, in spite of who’s in the Congress, the American people are so much stronger, so much more resilient, so much more capable, that even the ridiculous policies of our friends on the Right cannot keep them from moving forward.” Biden mistakes “leftward” for “forward,” but we too would like to be optimistic “in spite of who’s president.”