On Tuesday, Joe Biden was a guest on Late Night with David Letterman.
He was the second guest and was given just one short segment.
He seemed to be there more to plug his new book rather than as a presidential candidate. (I know. I forget that he's running for president, too.)
Serious presidential contenders don't get put in the second spot.
The book, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, is a whopping 400 pages. That doesn't compare with Bill Clinton's 1008-page My Life, but Biden has less explaining to do.
It was sort of strange when Biden talked about his first days as a U.S. senator. He spoke of the deaths of his wife and daughter in an accident just after he was elected.
He said he started off his time in Washington "in a bad mood."
"Bad mood" was a bad choice of words.
When Letterman asked how he managed to go on, he spoke about his experience at length, relatively speaking given the confines of his short time allotment. It was a very heavy topic.
They switched gears very suddenly, probably because the segment was so brief. Letterman brought up the plagiarism charge. Biden brushed it off as a mistake. (I hope he used lots of footnotes in his massive new book. )
Needless to say, this was not a light-hearted interview.
Then, Biden referred to his cranial aneurysms and that his odds of survival weren't good.
Shockingly, Biden actually said that he thought his odds of becoming president were good.
He should have just said, "I am clinically delusional."
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