Prediction: Biden will pull out of the race

I’m going to make a prediction: Joe Biden will pull out of the US presidential race.

Predictions are generally foolish, and I make one here not because I have particular knowledge about his intentions or information on the feverish consultations underway. Nor do I think logic tends to prevail. I’m predicting a Biden pullout for a reason that may strike some as even dumber: My assessment that he’s a decent person.

A decent person might still be an egomaniac – and that Biden probably is, considering that he got into the Senate at an unnaturally early age and has been there so…