ADADAs a teenager, Biden would recite Yeats’s verses in his bedroom while working on his stutter. When Biden told his daughter Ashley that he would be joining Barack Obama’s ticket for the White House, she brought up her father’s penchant for those verses. AD“You know how you’re always quoting Seamus Heaney about hope and history rhyming?” he remembered her saying over a lunch in 2008. “That’s what we’re going to do.”So as soon as he mentioned Seamus Heaney again in his acceptance speech on Thursday, Burt knew the candidate would start speaking about “hope and history” one more time. If the choice of passage was predictable, she said, it was akin to how she compares Biden to other presidential candidates.

Source: Washington Post August 21, 2020 11:03 UTC