Man to man

From NBC’s Ron Allen Here's something Joe Biden said, again, recently. "In my neighborhood, you want to say something about me, look me in the eye and tell me." The crowd under an outdoor pavilion in Jefferson City, Mo., burst out in applause and rose to its feet. "Say it to me straight up," Biden bellowed, sounding like a tough kid from Scranton PA might have back in the day. Biden was criticizing McCain for not looking Obama in the eye at their last debate (or the one before that), and for not leveling some of the "character" attacks in some of his TV ads and stump speeches, like, "Who is the real Barack Obama?"...directly at Obama. So, today in Lisbon, Ohio, when Biden sat down for a cheeseburger at the Steel Trolley Diner, and began answering a few questions from the traveling press corps, for the first time since way back in September, it seemed like a good time to ask whether he -- "Straight up" -- has contacted his old friend McCain to give him a piece of his mind?   ... (link)