Joe Biden’s press conference last night satisfied neither side of the Democrats’ civil war. Biden stumbled but he didn’t fall, so neither side can claim vindication – though both already have. Meanwhile, it continues to look like the party is stuck with him – sort of the way the ’80s were stuck with Huey Lewis.
Nothing against Lewis, who seems like a nice guy, or his pleasant bar band. It’s just that his music was about as bland as a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese, if a bit cheesier, and about as ubiquitous – they had a dozen Top 10 singles between 1982 and 1988, most accompanied by videos when MTV was a hitmaker. “Stuck With You,” the lead single from the 1986 album “Fore!” was the second of the band’s three No. 1 hits.
You can tell this is a mid-’80s product because the video gives the song a minute-long movie-style prologue, and one obnoxious fan wants to take his picture with a stand-alone device called a camera.
