The interviewer is Florida WFTV anchor Barbara West.  Follow this link to the Huffington Post article where I first saw this interview.

Friends tell me that there are people who don’t get my sarcasm, so I guess I will have to state that the title to this post was intended to be a somewhat sarcastic joke.  But don’t stop reading here.

In an odd way, these really are softball questions and the anchor is doing Biden a favor by asking them.  There are a lot of people in Florida who actually believe what this anchor is saying, perhaps due to the fact that this anchor keeps saying this stuff.  It is better to talk about these things out in the open than it is to let them fester just below the surface.  If Biden just tried to repeat his talking points whithout realizing the raft of misinformation that is preventing people from hearing a word he says, then he has no chance of getting through to people.

I think Obama knows that you have to talk to people about what is bothering them rather than stick to topics which are of no concern to them.  How are you going to know what is really bothering people if you don’t make them feel like they can ask you these things?   I hope Biden gets to have the same understanding that Obama has.