And Then There Were Six

Who killed Joseph Biden's presidential campaign? The Delaware Senator, announcing last week that he "will stop being a candidate" for the Democratic nomination, singled out one person. Said he: "I'm angry with myself for having . . . put myself in ((this)) position." Indeed, he could hardly blame anyone else for passing off the eloquent words of other politicians as his own and thus starting the media furor that drove him out of the race.

But if Biden stupidly loaded a metaphoric gun and pointed it at his forehead, he had help in pulling the trigger. It certainly was not Biden...