Cheney vs. Biden, a veep smackdown on Sunday

[Jennicut]

There will be a vice presidential battle this weekend, as Joe Biden and Dick Cheney show up on competing Sunday interview shows.

Cheney, a frequent critic of the Obama administration, appears on ABC's This Week.

In response, The White House slotted Biden with NBC's Meet The Press and CBS' Face The Nation.

Biden will do his interviews from Vancouver, where he is leading the U.S. delegation to the opening weekend of the Winter Olympics.

The Olympic gig is one of those traditional, ceremonial-type assignments that vice presidents have often been given.

But Biden has also been in the modern vanguard of increasingly powerful vice presidents, a trend that basically began under Walter Mondale (Jimmy Carter's veep, 1977-81) and has continued on through Cheney and Biden.

Over the past 13 months, Biden has represented Obama on major trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, become the administration's main spokesman for the stimulus bill, and, now, been tapped to respond to one of the president's most forceful critics, former vice president Dick Cheney.http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/02/cheney-vs-biden-a-veep-smackdown/1

Cheney will complain about how Obama is keeping America unsafe, blah, blah, blah. I know our current VP will thoroughly prove that idea wrong.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Good

The WH needs to be responding to Cheney's BS!

[Mz Pip]

2. I can only imagine how this

will play out. Cheney will get to talk and talk and talk on ABC and Biden will be cut off at every opportunity on NBC and CBS.

[madmom]

3. Why not have them both on the same show at the same time? That I would like to see!

[Jennicut]

4. Because the media is too afraid to let anyone debate Cheney directly.

[jillan]

6. Oh yes - I would LOVE to see Biden debate that a-hole.

[Bluzmann57]

5. I saw an ad saying cheney was on Sunday AM

And they sounded proud of it. Too bad Biden couldn't go face to face with the evil man. Biden would make him look stupid.