Joe pulls a Sarah

Senator Biden gave a speech at his son's deployment ceremony yesterday. The cameras conveniently captured the whole thing.

I hated it when Palin did it, and I hate it that Biden did it. Those ceremonies are incredibly tough, perhaps even more so for National Guard troops who first deploy to a training area, making their total time away from their families that much longer. Those cameras must have felt incredibly intrusive to the families of those who were deploying. I do, of course, understand that Biden was himself sending his son off to war. And, of course, he has a right to be there. But he could've done so quietly, with no cameras and no speeches. It certainly would've been the classier thing to do.