His father, Thomas Dodd, came back from his prosecutorial role at Nuremburg a changed man. He had gone off a liberal, and came back a neo-nazi himself. He was one of the worst Dems ever to sit on the hill, and was ultimately censured by his colleagues for using campaign funds for egregious personal expenses. His own staff worked with the media to oust him because of Dodd's literally dancing for joy the day Kennedy was assassinated. Dodd hated Kennedy.

The son was not much better on the matter of Kennedy. When the House Select Committee on Assassinations was closing fast on the CIA's role in the assassination of President Kennedy, the CIA assets in the media went after the two leaders of the committee - Richard Sprague and Rep. Henry Gonzales and got both removed. Chris Dodd then brought in the cover-up man: G. Robert Blakey. Dutifully, Blakey quietly and efficiently pulled people off the productive CIA leads and pointed them in other directions. Blakey wrote that after his years with the CIA, he was certain they wouldn't lie to him. When in 2005 it became clear the CIA had lied to him (the guy overseeing their requests for CIA records may himself have been involved, peripherally, in the assassination story) Blakey still couldn't bring himself to imagine the CIA's role there. Blakey tried to get a report confirming the results of the Warren Commission, but at the last minute, acoustical evidence surfaced, tested in separate trials by two different firms, which proved that at least four shots had been fired, requiring at least two shooters and hence a conspiracy, and that one of the shots very likely came from the Grassy Knoll. So Blakey conceded a "probable" conspiracy and then wrote a mob-did-it book. Chris Dodd's pick. Doesn't say much for Dodd's judgment.

I also have a vague memory of Dodd's involvement, behind the scenes, in subtly sabotaging the Iran-Contra investigation. I'll have to go in search of that if he becomes a serious candidate.

Nope. He'll never get my vote.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes