it is more than a trial balloon. it is a trial rocket ship. pat east, the latest reporting on the lunch where president obama gave his blessing to joe biden. i don t think it s surprising he would give his blessing, joe, if want to run, run. what we are seeing today with the leak of the meeting, the leak of the blessing, jorch hirsch saying what a great guy joe biden is, this is more than a blessing i think. the vice president is a great guy. and clearly there is a lot of affection and a lot of love between the president and the vice president. and of course the president was going to give him all the room he needs to make his decision. but there are ways to say that we had lunch, and there are ways to say we had lunch. this seems to go beyond that. right. so, the next step is, will he decide the actually run? if he decides to actually run then the president and the white house are in a bit of a pickle,