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With anchor Katie Couric on the scene in St Louis, CBS rounded out its debate coverage with a couple of Veep features. Jeff Greenfield's weekly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly took us through a highlight reel of historical running mate selections since 1940, when they were first picked by the Presidential candidate himself and not by his party's national convention. Good, according to Greenfield, were Lyndon Johnson, George Bush and Al Gore; Bad were Spiro Agnew, Geraldine Ferraro and Dan Quayle; Ugly was Thomas Eagleton.
Sarah Palin and Joe Biden were on Greenfield's Good side for the first of Couric's Vice-Presidential Questions: who was history's most impressive Vice President? Biden picked Johnson; Palin chose Bush. Their responses to Couric's second question--an assessment of Dick Cheney, the current office holder--were night and day. Biden was totally serious, condemning Cheney for "shredding the Constitution" and "condoning torture." Palin was flippant, bemoaning the fact that Cheney allowed himself to become a his own caricature by shooting his friend in the face during a quail hunt. Palin called it "the duck hunting accident." It was the caricature she objected to, not the buckshot in the face.
Couric thirdly asked them both about their favorite movie title. Presumably a coincidence, each chose the sports genre. Biden loves Chariots of Fire while Palin cited both Rudy and Hoosiers. "Do you have a favorite scene?" Couric inquired. "When they win!" beamed Palin.
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