Pulled from the New York Times:
Mr. Biden recalls that after Mr. McCain came under heavy attack from George W. Bush in 2000, he called Mr. McCain and offered to “go anywhere in the country and testify to his character.” Now, Mr. Biden charges, Mr. McCain has embraced the same tactics he once cricitized.
“I tried to talk to John,” Mr. Biden said in the interview. When both men were at Columbia University last week on the Sept. 11 anniversary, Mr. Biden had a staff member try to arrange a dressing-room visit with Mr. McCain. But Mr. Biden was told not to come, he said.
“I walked down anyway,” Mr. Biden said. “And who the hell is going to stop me?” Mr. McCain looked up and was “like, what is this about?” Mr. Biden said. Mr. McCain hugged Mr. Biden’s wife, Jill, and the two senators shared a quick handshake, but there was no time for any discussion.
If McCain refuses to have the smallest of wayside chats with Senator Joe Biden, how does he plan on erasing the center divide in Congress as president?
