Couple of points, a question about Cheney’s view of the vice presidency was biased b/c Cheney is unpopular as was his legislative/ executive stand.
The question before or after that was how your admin will differ from the prez if he dies and you take over. I think that was aimed at McCain’s age.
Also, questions about “which promises are you not going to keep” are idiotic.
When Jim Lehrer asked "what will you need to cut", Barack Obama "answered" it by listing a large number of areas where he wanted to increase spending. When Ifill asked Biden what he would cut, Joe pretty much answered the same way.
We just spent $805B, and the Dems see no reason to cut back anywhere.
I agree with you on the two obviously biased questions.
On the other hand, the ‘which promises are you not going to keep’ was actually a question biased in the opposite direction. For any with ears to hear, Biden flubbed it, giving ‘slowing down increased foreign aid’ and the only cut, then giving a laundry-list of expensive programs Obama proposes to implement, fiscal crisis or not. Except on national security, only Obama’s campaign promises cost money (including his tax increases, since we still seem to be on the descending slope of the Laffer curve).
Palin should have pounced, and replied that the nation’s security was too important to make cuts, and that other than that, the campaign promises on the GOP side would save money.
Biden would have had something to say about tax cuts, and she could have reminded him that both Reagan and JFK’s tax cuts increased government revenue.
A missed opportunity that.