All the talk in Washington these days is budgets and deficits and tax rates. It's enough to make you want to take a nap and hope that it all goes away.
Or perhaps with all the late-night budget briefings and negotiations going on in the Obama administration, vice president Joe Biden needed to think deeply about the issues involved?
According to ABC News, Biden may have chosen the wrong moment to either take a nap or undertake some deep reflection – while his boss was on stage addressing the nation on the subject of the US's financial future:
As President Obama weighed in on one of the most important issues of the day, outlining his plan to deal with deficit reduction and attack the national debt, at least one audience member did not appear to be fully engaged.
Biden, at one point, could be seen apparently nodding off – or at least deep in thought. The bug was catching, too. The woman in glasses directly behind Biden appears to close her eyes too.
If he was asleep – as some allege – Biden is such a pro that he knows not to wake up with a start and go "Uh? Where am I?" the way that most of us would.
But of course he wasn't asleep.
