Obama, Clinton, Biden

It's remarkable how far everything's come since the early days of the primaries and the pre-primary debates. We had three of the top officials in the present government competing against one another, and now they're on stage together, working in harmony.

Biden never seemed to have much of a chance to do much toward getting the presidential nomination. It seemed like a waste of time really to have him competing at all. But he did. And even though he didn't win a thing, he still came out more or less on top.

Clinton and Obama were the big story, like a steel cage death match between the two. It was a great division in the Democratic party. Clinton was expected to win -- I thought she would -- I was on her side. But Obama never seemed to make mistakes, never seemed to do anything that would turn people away from him. Clinton was a lot more over the top, or the blogs made it seem that way. Every little thing she did was blown up as an example of the Clintons being racist and terrible in other ways. Which I thought was false.

Obama was a great guy. I saw him in one of his campaign stops and was very impressed.

In the debates, then, they were definitely at each other's throats and it was a nasty thing. So it's hard to believe that it's all come around as it has. There they are, one big happy family.