Delaware’s Mr. Congeniality.
Via Glenn Reynolds, the Times Online prints what Ted Sorenson, one of JFK’s closest aides, wrote in his memoirs about Joe Biden:
I never lost my admiration for Inouye. On the other hand, the prize for political hypocrisy in a town noted for political hypocrisy went to Joe Biden. On my first courtesy call to his office, he could not have been more enthusiastic, supportive, and gracious, calling me “the best appointment Carter has made!” At the opening of the hearing, he changed both his tune and his tone, stating: “Quite honestly, I’m not sure whether or not Mr Sorenson could be indicted or convicted under the espionage statutes…….whether Mr Sorenson intentionally took advantage of ambiguities in the law or carelessly ignored the law.” After listening to my statement of defense and withdrawal, he said: “Ted, you are one of the classiest men I have ever run across in my whole life.”
In other Biden news, Jake Tapper reports that “for the third time since his acceptance speech a week ago, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee [Sen. Biden] confused battalions and brigades.” And this is the man Obama would place a heartbeat from the presidency?
