re: #303 Patricia Kayden

That’s an idiotic comment for someone who saw up close what Republicans did to President Obama.

It’s the sort of comment one expects from an old-line Democrat. Joe may look relatively youthful compared to some of his former colleagues, but he first took office as a “young” Senator in the Class of ‘72. He cut his teeth at the federal level back in the days when both parties might throw barbed insults in public, but in private would share drinks and make deals in smoke-filled backrooms. He’s very much a Dem in the mold of LBJ, a guy who today would have had to fight tooth and nail just to extend SS benefits to “coloreds.”