@hawkeye10,
I keep forgetting about Biden. I don't actively dislike him. I quickly read an article this morning in Huffington Post (which I look at less and less these days - I just pulled the story from a google news link) about Biden being right about what should have happened in Iraq, post Saddam - dividing it up re the sectarianism, which apparently people scoffed at. (Not that I was for our being there..)
Bernie Sanders and Al Franken: I haven't followed Sanders, will have to read up; I do like Franken. Hmm, that cheers me up a little.