Tuesday
23Sep2008
Joe Biden’s Gaffebalooza
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 10:59PM
I knew there was a reason Obama picked Joe Biden as his running mate! A good belly laugh now and then is a good thing, and Joe Biden often provides one. Below, Joe Biden (D) garbles history as the MSM looks the other way:
“He (Joe Biden) was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
As Reason's Jesse Walker footnotes it: "And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, 'Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?'"
HT: Politico,com
“He (Joe Biden) was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
As Reason's Jesse Walker footnotes it: "And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, 'Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?'"
HT: Politico,com
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Reader Comments (20)
That is funny. And the instance where he encouraged the poor guy in the wheelchair to stand up (does he think he has Obama's healing powers?).
Imagine if Palin wasn't in a security lockdown to avoid the press at all costs due to her obvious lack of readiness what delightful laughs we could have.
"That is funny. And the instance where he encouraged the poor guy in the wheelchair to stand up (does he think he has Obama's healing powers?)."
Back in 2004 John Edwards promised that if he and Kerry won the election then people like Christopher Reeve would walk again.
Ross - and Bush said Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, Cheney linked Iraq to 9/11, Palin claims she said no to the Bridge to Nowhere, McCain said the economy is sound, Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman, Hillary said she supports Obama, Obama said he never heard his minister utter such wild comments in 20 years.
Lets face it, they are all auditioning for America's Next Comic - the reality show.
Yeah but those were all borderline lies with elements of truth to them, Saddam did have WMDs just not in 2003, Bill Clinton didn't consider oral sex to be sex, Sarah Palin did cancel the Bridge to Nowhere albeit after Alaska got the money, Obama didn't realise that Wright's utterences were outrageous for 20 years, outside of the banking and housing sector the economy is sound, Hillary will publically support Obama.
On the other hand promising paraplegics that you'll make them walk again is something else.
He's been reading Dan Quale's memoirs.
What happened to President Hoover?'
He got beaten by FDR in 1932, mainly because of his lack of action in response to the great depression.
As Biden said (sort of).
mahons
If WMD assertions were the stuff of comedy, then there was a lot of laughter going on in Washington, from both sides of the aisle, before 2001
Phantom - you think Bush stopped bullshitting in 2001? Please.
He's not smart enough to be a true bullshitter. Now Bill Clinton, that was a bullshitter.
True. With Clinton he bullshitted us. With Bush we've bullshitted ourselves.
During Clinton's watch two thousand folks were killed in terrorist attacks on our soil, we were shamed before the world due to our inability to provide basic aid to one of our city's during a hurricane, we lost 5000 soldiers in a chaotic occupation of a Middle Eastern nation, and we spent 700 BILLION taxpayer's money on Wall Street's malfeasance. Oh, wait a minute, that was during the guy who came after him.
Did you know that Bush had a higher GPA than Kerry? just sayin'
Al Queda was not formed on September 10. 2001.
I do not find Clinton's performance against them to be impressive.
I also condemn those rabid Republicans who shouted "Monica Missiles"when he did try to do something. I condemn them most of all.
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The record shows that Clinton signed financial deregulation into law.
And that Clinton had the benefit of an internet stock bubble, which he had no part in creating , but which certainly helped the economy during his tenure, and which masked a lot of structural issues.
And may I remind that New Orleans had a Democratic mayor and the state a democratic gov. No reason it had to look like Haiti, but that helped.
I'll give ya the one on the war though.
This has been going around the internet
DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP!
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected
a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;
Cincinnati, OH (3rd)… since 1984;
Cleveland, OH (4th)… since 1989;
Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican Mayor;
St. Louis, MO (6th)…. since 1949;
El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican Mayor;
Milwaukee, WI (8th)… since 1908;
Philadelphia, PA (9th)… since 1952;
Newark, NJ (10th) since 1907.
Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and always
expecting different results.
It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats -And they are still disadvantaged…
Pahntom - The real joke is the poor rural whites who vote Republican despite how the Party leaders despise them.
I don't know that the GOP leaders despise them but they sure take them for granted
The open contempt ( bitterness, guns and religion ) comes from the other side.
I think that a lot of the Republican leaders honestly do share a lot of the rural cultural values on many things.
Foolish error by Joe.
Perhaps both VP candidates shouldn't be allowed to speak publicly until the end of the campaign?!!
I think that a lot of the Republican leaders honestly do share a lot of the rural cultural values on many things.
You mean they're all obsessed with abortion?
If that means that they're not fans of that procedure, or of faux marriage ( which the Dem leadership secretly supports ) etc etc.
Crisis # 5: No sooner had I got Joe Biden (I’m still working on Al Gore, and Barack Obama certainly hasn’t got the message) to stop dressing up like George W. Bush, every time he felt the need to denounce George W., and now this. By way of explanation, ever since George Carlin departed the scene, Joe has felt that he’s had to pull double duty. I guess the strain proved too much. Now Joe’s on a tear about a “major international challenge” a “generated crisis,” “steel in his spine.” Such unprecedented utterances, what does it all mean? Lumbar surgery? Hair transplants? Far be it from the Democrats to ever contrive intense difficulties: http://theseedsof9-11.com