I also remember that Joe Biden went ballistic at the hearings for Clarence Thomas because Thomas said he believed in Natural Law. And Biden also made it clear when discussing government “takings” that the state should have the power to seize whatever property it wants whenever it wants it.

While I don’t care much for Robert Bork’s legal point, I remember at the Bork hearings when Patrick Leahy was excoriating Bork for making $300 K one year, the year that Bork’s wife was dying of cancer and he had huge medical bills. Biden, who chaired the hearings, permitted this farce to go on until a senator from New Hampshire interrupted with the point about Bork’s late wife.

I really cannot find any good things about the presidential candidates this year, and if Biden is on the ticket, I see it as just one more blow to liberty and decency. This is one of the most discouraging elections in my memory.