Can you imagine if Dan Quale had said this? He would have been skewered! (and often was much much less)
In any case, Betsy Newmark writes I knew Joe Biden was going to be fun. "You'd think that a man who got into trouble for plagiarizing someone else's biographical speech and for arrogantly telling a man questioning him that his IQ was higher would refrain from such grandiose self-promotion. But he just can't help himself."
Ouch and double ouch.
More here from powerline: "He's also the first vice president "since anybody" pathetic enough to feel compelled to defend himself in this fashion, much less to claim that he knows as much or more as his predecessor. Moreover, Biden's experience -- decades in the Senate -- plainly does not compare to that of Cheney, who had been White House chief of staff, Secretary of Defense, head of a major corportation, and influential member of the House."
