I met Biden once in the ‘70s. It was when we were all young liberals, and he appeared to be our next champion. I found that He had the most remarkable personality of anyone I have ever met. Within two seconds you hated him. Hate isn’t strong enough, you detested him. He was the most pompous, vain, two-faced blowhard, phony you could possibly imagine. Seriously, it doesn’t take more than a few seconds to get the measure of the man. Oddly, that never comes across in the media.