One reason why Ted Kennedy and Tom Daschle picked Obama in 2006

[question everything]

was that he was a carte blanche.

After Kerry's "I voted for it before I voted against it" and his heroism in Vietnam twisted by the swifters, they wanted someone with nothing to grab to start smearing.

Thus I hope that Biden and his consultants and his supporters are getting ready for the vultures to pick at his career.

I think that in general, anyone with notoriety has had events in his/her youth that may have seem harmless, like workplace flirting but that today are magnified. Even the Time Square "kiss" photo today, some claim, can be viewed as an assault.

I admire Neil deGrasse Tyson and when the allegations came against him I thought: from the 1980?

And of course, already here many go after Beto's "past."

So... will see.

[JI7]

1. no, Obama was an extraordinary one in a lifetime candidate

it wasn't about some small campaign thing.

Tim Kaine was one of the first to endorse him also which would end up with most senators endorsing obama over Clinton.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I suspect you meant to say: tabula rasa. n/t

[question everything]

3. Yup! Thanks