« Young Russert: How To Save The Bills | Main | Wednesday Evening »
September 03, 2008
Biden re: Sleepover
From ABC's Political Radar:
To Biden's surprise, his granddaughter Finnegan - "she better turn out to be smart and beautiful handling that name" - approached him and asked his permission to have a sleep-over.
"We're standing there and said, you know, she said, 'Pop, we want to have a sleepover.' And I said, 'You do?' And they said 'yeah'. And the end result of this was, we cleared out one of the rooms, took out the beds. Seriously".
"And they put down mats on the floor, and Barack's two daughters and my four granddaughters - actually my oldest one who's 15 did not. But the three youngest granddaughters and until he got a little rowdy my 3-year-old grandson, we had pizza brought in and tapes of the various shows they like to put in."
Hell yeah.
The spur-of-the-moment slumber party might have seemed minor, but it left an indelible impression on Biden.
"I didn't want to be vice president," he admitted. "But as I walked away from that, I realized what I suspect a lot of you who are dedicated to Barack becoming president feel. I walked out of there realizing why I'm in this. It sounds corny. I'm in this for my children and my grandchildren. I'm in this for the people I grew up with in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. I'm in this for all the people who you know, all the people who you know, who success or failure is the very measure, the very measure of whether or not the American dream still persists."
Posted by caps at September 3, 2008 02:39 PM