Biden feels ‘badly’ for Bush

Vice President-elect Joseph Biden said in an interview that while “it’s presumptuous to feel sorry for another man,” he does feel “badly” for President Bush, especially after an Iraqi reporter threw his shoes at the president earlier this month.

Biden said the incident was “unfortunate” and “uncalled for” during an interview on CNN’s Larry King Live set to air Monday night.

{mosads}“I think President Bush and, unlike Vice President Cheney, is, upon reflection beginning to acknowledge some of the serious, if not mistakes, misjudgments that he made,” Biden said.

Biden and Cheney engaged in an indirect back-and-forth on the Sunday talk shows over the weekend about the president’s war-time authorities and the powers of the executive branch.

Biden also said in the interview that international expectations for President-elect Obama’s administration are “overwhelming.”

Biden said he is not as worried about the “exceedingly high expectations” for Obama domestically as he is internationally.

“I have been contacted by so many world leaders,” Biden said. “Their expectation for Barack’s presidency is overwhelming. They are hungry to have an American leader who they think has a policy that reflects our stated values as well as one they can talk to.”

Obama’s popularity overseas was a part of his campaign. Over the summer, he spoke in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Berlin.

Biden also said that tapes released by the U.S. attorney’s office of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich “seem incredibly, incredibly incriminating.”

“It’s a decision for the people of Illinois to make, the legislature of Illinois to make but from where I sit he looks like a guy who is not capable of governing,” said Biden, who prefaced his comments by noting that the governor is innocent until proven guilty.