I'm looking forward to this Sunday's Meet the Press with Joe Biden as the guest.
I expect that David Gregory will be as easy on the Vice President as Lesley Stahl was a few weeks back. If Joe errs, it won't be Gregory's fault. After all he probably enjoys the DC cocktail circuit as much as anyone.
But I will be disappointed if the Veep doesn't say something stupid which will probably be the story of the day on Sunday.
Unfortunately for Joe, there is now the expectation that he will say something silly. His track record demonstrates a proclivity to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. Or simply a politically tone-deaf notion. Go here and here and here to check out a few.
Despite the gaffes, Biden is not a stupid man. He's been re-elected a few times to represent the folks of Delaware in the Senate.
By my lights, he's not being served well by his staff. It is a bit of a surprise since his staff was considered to consist of political heavyweights. If so, these heavyweights don't know the first rule of staff work -- don't make the boss look bad. (Somebody should have prepped the Veep on the nature of the new Hudson River Tunnel.)
Of course, the fact that Biden has kept these under-performing staffers says plenty about Joe.
And it will say a lot about Obama if he keeps Biden on the ticket in 2012.
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