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| I watched Biden on "Meet the Press" yesterday. I thought he did a reasonably good job of things. He kind of fumbled his way thru some questions at the begining, but did a good job on the questions towards the end that deal with Iraq and his ties to the banking industry.
Here is the transcript: Sept. 7: Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Tom Friedman - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com
The first four pages where Biden, and the last page was an interview with Tom Friedman about his new book "Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America" - that bit was pretty good as well.
What is it with the blue team and issues related to pay grade?
Biden tried to use the same line when asked why Obama had early on said he would do town hall meetings, but once he had locked up the nomination decided against it.
MR. BROKAW: Quote: |
As you know, earlier in the campaign, Barack Obama said that he would be willing to appear in town halls, a proposition put forth by John McCain, go around the country, appear two, three times a week in different venues, and then he decided not to. He wanted to confine it to just three debates. Those numbers that we just referred to, 38 million people watching Senator Obama, 39 million watching McCain, 38 million watching Governor Palin the other night, that is an indication this country is really tuned in in a way that I can't remember maybe since 1968. Why not have town halls? Why not have Senator Obama go head to head with John McCain across the country?
| SEN. BIDEN: Quote: |
Well, that's a little above my pay grade, to use the phrase. I mean, it's a decision the campaign made before I got on the campaign, before I was picked, but...
| MR. BROKAW: Quote: |
Do you think it's a good idea?
| SEN. BIDEN: Quote: |
But--no, I think, I think you're going to learn more from having--look, you just got finished pointing out how many people watched this. I think those debates that are going to take place, the three critical debates between the two nominees, are going to be the most watched debates in the history of American politics, and I think people are going to get everything they need out of those debates, plus they're going to have an opportunity to--look, another reason why, in my view--I can't speak for the campaign, because I haven't gotten into--I mean, I just got on the ticket--is that, you know, we have a different focus. For example, I'm headed to--we think we can win Montana. Now, you know, they'd like very much to not, not spend a lot of time in Montana and Virginia and another 12 states or so that were Republican states we think we can compete in and win. And so when you decide on doing, you know, a campaign, a town hall, you know, every week, what you do, you significantly constrain your ability to get to places where Democratic candidates haven't spent much time before.
| Is there anything that will not be above Obama and Biden's pay grade if they get elected?
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