"Frontline: The Choice 2008" relives those days of yore, when the pecking order was Biden-Obama

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Next Tuesday the PBS series "Frontline" is airing its every-four-years biography of the two leading candidates for president, "The Choice." I think "Frontline" gets a bad rap for being super-serious and dull. True, its narrator Will Lyman does seem like an ultra-solemn guy -- if this new interview of Lyman by our friends at Soup Cans is any indication -- but there are always moments of levity in any "Frontline." And the one that you will see below just happens to involve the two men who would later combine on the presidential ticket.

It concerns a certain note that the freshman senator from Illinois passed one of his aides during a long-assed committee meeting chaired by his future running mate. I'd like to think that upon hearing of it, Joe Biden had a good laugh ...