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In the Pool with Biden

Ben Smith has posted the full pool report from Joe Biden’s visit yesterday to the Football Hall of Fame, written by Perry Bacon of the Washington Post. It’s a fun read, as it describes one of those moments where running for national office (and covering the person running) really seem fun. It’s almost a novella. […]

September 18, 2008

Ben Smith has posted the full pool report from Joe Biden’s visit yesterday to the Football Hall of Fame, written by Perry Bacon of the Washington Post. It’s a fun read, as it describes one of those moments where running for national office (and covering the person running) really seem fun. It’s almost a novella. Biden gets misty, cracks jokes, and drops a conspiratorial aside. Though the highlight would have to be when Biden taps Bacon on the chest and tells him he really needs “to work on your pecks.”

I suspect covering Biden provides more than the average share of those sorts of moments.

Clint Hendler is the managing editor of Mother Jones, and a former deputy editor of CJR.