Politico: 'Biden Is Hardly a Shut-in' Despite All His Lid Days

Politico sounds very worried while simultaneously trying to project not very convincingly that there is no real need for concern over the fact that for the first 26 days of September, Joe Biden has taken 11 "lid" days, i.e. done no campaigning. It is almost as if they are trying to convince themselves of this as much as they are their readers in Friday's worry bead article by Christopher Cadelago and Marc Caputo, "When Biden calls a 'lid,' Democrats wet the bed — and Trump starts mocking."

Judging from the tenor of the article, perhaps the authors themselves could be placed in the "wet the bed" category.

If calling a “lid" enters the mainstream American lexicon, this will be the week it all started.

Joe Biden called a lid — the arcane term reporters use when a politician is done traveling for the day — at 1:02 p.m. Friday; 9:20 a.m. Thursday; 9:22 a.m. Tuesday and 8:34 a.m. Saturday. Biden's early turn-ins provoked the Twitter set, professionally nervous Democrats (OK, bedwetters) and, notably, Donald Trump to scratch their heads or rain down ridicule.

Well, it is hard not to laugh at the idea of a candidate who is supposedly running in the most important election of our lifetime to be taking off almost half the time available to do nothing in the way of campaigning via "lid" days.

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