Hillary-Biden Swap Seen as the Nuclear Option

[karynnj]

37. I was in college when the "Paul is dead" nonsense started

I was also taking the freshman Physiology "rat lab" class. The TA for the class was very interested in the spread of urban legends, so he decided to take advantage of the fact that three students were older women (probably in their late 20s early 30s) from Bloomington.

When we arrived, we were told that ANY talking would result in a failing grade and given questions to answer - who is Paul McCartney, list 5 Beatles song - and list the last two things - true or not that you read about him. He found the women knew nothing yet about the rumors.

He then went through showing them all the things containing "clues. We all sat there knowing what they were suppose to "see" and even as he pointed various things out - ie "why do you think Paul is barefoot?" and finally playing Revolution Number 9 backward, they just looked confused. He then asked them to write what conclusion they thought from all they saw or heard - result - none came up with anything to suggest that signals were sent to imply that Paul was dead and replaced (apparently with someone left handed, who looked like him, sang like him, and wrote songs like him - because of course, there were lots of people with all four of these traits. )

I do think that the "swap" idea has had FEWER takers than the idiotic Paul rumors. (As one of the kids with a very cheap kid record player that you could manually turn backwards, I know almost everyone in my dorm played the record backwards.) In addition, rather than one DJ who started it as a prank, there have been some shameless RW media talking heads and political operatives on both sides who have proposed this nonsense.

The fact is Biden helped in 2008 and will help in 2012. In addition, he HAS been given more responsibility - even when he is given less visibility. Biden was the Obama person most active in working with Iraq. You can't get much more key than that - and he did it without anything becoming a negative issue.