It wasn't low enough.
If she threw any more hanging sliders for Joe to hit out of the park, I was convinced that she would be the #5 starter for the New York Mets -- who will take just about anybody.
Curiously, most of the interview with Joe was was done standing up in his office. Why?
Was the seated, or more formal, aspect of the interview was unwatchable? (If memory serves there was only one question -- about the Hugo Chavez handshake -- shown when they were seated.) Did Joe comitt any gaffes or was it -- heaven forbid -- the fact that Joe Biden is a fairly conventional thinker and boring speaker?
The fact that both Biden and the President chose to stand for their interviews suggests that they weren't going to give the 60 Minutes team any more time than was necessary.
Granted, the interview was a puff piece designed as a link in with the totally arbitrary notion that Obama's first 100 days are of some consequence but that doesn't mean that she couldn't ask a tough question or two.
For instance, Biden is notoriously tight-fisted when it comes to giving to charities yet yet professes that paying taxes is patriotic. What would he say to that allegation?
Biden supported the Iraq War and when the political winds shifted voted against the surge. Now that the winds have changed again, does he think that the Obama plan is working?
As he is in charge of the middle class task force -- what does he plan to do, if anything, in that capacity?
Lastly, Biden noted, when talking about his son who is currently deployed in Iraq: "ridden home with too many dead young men and women in caskets and it's just impossible to not associate with that."
Given the respect that the military takes with the remains of the fallen, it seems unlikely that they would be flown as cargo on a flight ferrying VIPs. If true, how many times has he flown out of Iraq or Afghanistan? Or, was this a case of Joe Biden, stretching the truth to fit his purposes?
Alas, that wouldn't have been much news either.
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