"I've been called worse on the basketball court"

I hadn't seen this before, so I'll pass it on, sans commentary.

Obama, responding to the public vetting of Palin (via Writ Large, which traveled with the Obama campaign this week):

“Listen, I mean, if they want to work the refs, they are free to do so,” he said. “I think the public can make their judgments about this. The notion that any questions about her work in Alaska is somehow not relevant to her potential to be vice president of the United States doesn’t make too much sense.

“I think she’s got a compelling story, but I assume she wants to be treated the way guys want to be treated. That means our records are under scrutiny. I’ve been through this for 19 months. She’s been through it, what, four days so far?”

He said he wasn’t responding to Palin’s attacks because “I’m running against John McCain. I don’t get the sense that Gov. Palin has ideas different than John McCain.”

But, Obama said, the criticism “isn’t that big of a deal.”

“I’ve been called worse on the basketball court,” he said.

Meanwhile, here's Biden's response to Palin's RNC speech (via the Washington Post):

At a town hall meeting in Virginia Beach, Biden called Palin a formidable politician and said he was impressed by her speech, which he said was stocked with "good, funny lines. . . . I'm glad they weren't about me. I was sitting there thinking, 'Whoa, zinger.'"