Reply #22: Can't Believe No One Posted This [View All]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/26/ST2008082603569.html

Oh, it was published several weeks ago, but how about a reminder since we've been distracted by more recent developments in the race.

It's about him taking the train to work everyday (well, not now that he's running for VP) and how well he gets along with...well, everybody. Sometimes he'll buy coffee for all the passengers in the car, he jokes with the ticket sellers, that sort of thing. He's thrown parties for the conductors. This is a man who doesn't treat people differently based on their economic or social status.

the other interesting tidbit is that before he started taking the train (when he drove) he had a car phone. Now this was back in the 1970's, but here's a man not afraid to embrace new technology.

And of course, he can be funny without being mean:
Several years ago, he was late to a Judiciary Committee hearing and apologized saying "One of those things that I keep telling my colleagues: If they fully funded Amtrak, I would not be late. And some suggest that's why they don't fully fund Amtrak."

A really cool piece.

A really cool guy - in demeanor an average joe.
In intellect and perseverance - anything but

:yourock: