Factor out all the boilerplate, bragging and other bull, and what President Biden delivered Wednesday night - in quite possibly his last speech to the American people - was the ghost of an explanation for why he dropped out of his re-election race: the 'need to unite my party.'
Whatever: They convinced him that the party he'd always strived to please didn't want him anymore.
He's a shadow of what he once was, however impressive or not you judge that to be - bereft even of the high-energy cunning that marked the true highlight of his career, his evisceration of Paul Ryan in the 2012 veep debate.
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