The Unforgiven: Joe Biden Is Haunted by Bork

By CONRAD BLACK,Special to the Sun | October 2, 2019

It is hard not to feel some sympathy for Joe Biden, up to a point. He is said by almost everyone who knows him to be personally likeable. As a simple member of the public, I have never forgiven him for his treatment, as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, of President Reagan’s nominee for the Supreme Court in 1987, Robert Bork. Mr. Biden implicitly endorsed Senator Edward Kennedy’s statement on the Senate floor that “Robert Bork’s America is a land where women are forced into back-alley abortions,” a land of segregation, lawless rogue police, government censorship of writers and artists, and inaccessibility of federal courts to meritorious litigants, where the teaching of evolution was banned............

Bork was really the beginning, and Thomas the second episode, as Democrats turned Republican nominations to the Supreme Court into torture chambers of doubtfully sourced character assassination; Mr. Biden was one of the architects of this perversion...........To Read More.....

My Take - I wish he'd left the Marshall comments out of this piece., and some of his other thoughts regarding crime and punishment. I've been following his work since he left prison, but as time goes by I'm wondering what his real values are.

As for Marshall, he may not have been in agreement with giving Europe to the Soviets or China to the Communists, but both Presidents he served clearly did that, and he never protested once and the Generals under his control, with the exception of Patton, went along with it, especially in China.  He did protest Truman's recognition of Israel, being the antisemite he was, with Jewish blood on his hands for some of his actions.  The fact is, Marshall was part of the problem regarding the communist takeover of much of the world. 

And let's get this right.  McCarthy may have been a loose cannon, with a lot of personal issues, but he was right. 

Communists thoroughly infested the federal government at every level during the FDR administration and the Truman administration.   Eisenhower and Truman had to have been aware of that because they would have known about the VENONA intercepts which clearly demonstrated how thoroughly the communist infiltration was of all of America's institutions.  And they both condemned McCarthy for his actions in exposing it. 

As far as the Bork hearings "haunting" Biden.  I don't think anything "haunts" Biden because his moral foundation is built on quicksand, as a result, his conscience is seared, and feels no pain.