I thought Joe Biden was surprisingly bright, clean, and articulate during last night's debate with Sarah Palin. Okay, he wasn't always so bright--and his willingness to fudge the facts wasn't exactly the cleanest politics--but he was definitely articulate!

So articulate, in fact, I think Biden covered up at least one gaffe. After Palin mentioned Obama's pledge to meet with Ahmadinejad, Biden said:

This is simply not true about Barack Obama. He did not say sit down with Ahmadinejad.

The fact of the matter is, it surprises me that Sen. McCain doesn't realize that Ahmadinejad does not control the security apparatus in Iran. The theocracy controls the security apparatus.

Got that, America? It's not Ahmadinejad who's in power, it's "the theocracy." So Obama won't have a presidential summit with an Islamist nut job bent on getting nukes. He's going to meet, without preconditions, a whole bunch of Islamist nutjobs bent on getting nukes "the theocracy". What a relief!