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.