Quote:Then, as Biden was seated and others spoke, he just seemed to stare vacantly for much of the time.

When he finally spoke, he repeated the "black hole" speech he's given before and then — you knew it was coming — talked about how his son Beau had died. He told the audience whose police officer loved ones had been killed in the line of duty, "I know" what you feel — because his son had cancer.

No, you don't know, and it's really offensive when you say you do.

You had time to say goodbye to your son, and he wasn't a police officer, much less one killed and gone in a minute from you in the line of duty. NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller's family knows what that's like, but you couldn't be bothered to attend his wake or even call his family.

If his staff had any decency, they would stop him from doing this kind of thing. But neither his staff nor Biden seem to be able to stop this. It isn't about you, Joe, no matter how much you try to make it so.

His slurring and "Beau moment" may also not have gone over so well with the audience because there was also very little applause when he started his remarks and very little after he was done delivering his remarks, as journalist Matthew Foldii observed.