Not necessarily. Genuine intelligence -- which instructs a man or woman in the transitory nature of human endeavor --- might produce in Joe Biden the recognition that undertaking to serve the public for 35 long years doesn't necessarily qualify as public service.
Hasn't Delaware anyone else who could sit where Biden sits, doing what he's doing? True enough, the good people of Delaware evidently like their representation. That doesn't mean non-Delawareans need fall for the job resume of the Senator Who Just Won't Quit.
There was a time in the early '90s when the movement to limit congressional terms seemed a sure winner. That was before the Republicans won Congress and learned the fun of running things -- the fun you never get over -- as witness, among others, Sens. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and the lately indicted Ted Stevens of Alaska.
Wouldn't a dozen and a half years on Capitol Hill, if we could effect such a change in the Constitution, be enough for anyone? Not for Joe Biden; yes, we understand that. Wouldn't it be enough for normal people -- patriotic, public-spirited, possibly even blessed without ego, or anyway one that sticks out like transplanted hair?
Bill Murchison
Bill Murchison is the former senior columns writer for
The Dallas Morning News and author of
There's More to Life Than Politics.
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