The up-side of the Biden pick...

There is a formal chance that he could one day become president. The chances of this are low, the chance of comedy gold--pretty much certain!

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Hoover was president when the market crashed in 1929 and television was still in the experimental mode, otherwise great example Joe.