Biden has a long history, and I agree he hasn’t always made the right call, but he took to the Senate in 73, and he’s voted on and sponsored an awful lot of legislation. Find me someone who can do a job like that for 50 years without making an error in judgement and we should canonize them. He’s also become more enlightened on a number of issues, articulate why, and changed his opinion (and how he votes) on them.

But I wasn’t meaning to hold Biden up as the guy to emulate, I’m just saying that his long experience is much of what makes him effective - he knows how to work the system. We should get rid of people who aren’t effective or are effective at doing the wrong thing, but I don’t think we should get rid of an effective person who does the right thing just because of the number of birthdays they’ve had.