Posted on 09/23/2008 6:32:18 PM PDT by Red Steel
WASHINGTON • Senator Joe Biden was spinning folksy one-liners with CBS News anchor Katie Couric the other night when he offered this pearl of wisdom about how real leaders act during times of national crisis.
“When the stock market crashed (in 1929), Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’ ”
It was a great sound bite except for two things – Herbert Hoover, not Roosevelt, was president at the time, and commercial television didn’t exist.
The good news for Biden was that hardly anyone noticed the historical error. The bad news? The blunder was overlooked only because the Democratic vice presidential candidate was busy doing damage control Tuesday over two bigger gaffes that have landed him in Barack Obama’s doghouse.
After weeks of being overshadowed in the U.S. media by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Obama’s running mate is suddenly making headline news for all the wrong reasons. First, he blasted his own campaign for running a “terrible” ad that claimed Republican presidential candidate John McCain did not know how to operate a computer or send email.
Then video surfaced of Biden telling an environmentalist voter in coal-rich Ohio – a vital battleground state – that there would be “no coal plants here in America” in an Obama administration.
McCain’s campaign made political hay out of both comments, using them to underscore Republican claims Obama is waging a dirty campaign and to cast him as out-of-touch with working-class voters in the American heartland.
“Barack Obama and Joe Biden must really think they can win this election without Ohio, because they're doing their best to lose it with stupid comments like these,” Bob Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, said in a statement. “Keep talking, Joe.”
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Ah, Joe. The gift that keeps on giving. BTT.
It was a great sound bite except for two things – Herbert Hoover, not Roosevelt, was president at the time, and commercial television didn’t exist."
LOLOLOLOL
Thanks, you just made my day.:-)
I don’t want him as VP, but could he be the presidential jester?
He certainly is the gift that keeps on giving! And I do not believe all the rumors that Biden will leave the ticket. He got on the ticket by trying to take care of things in Deleware for Obama, and Obama owes him the VP slot. It would be a bad move for Obama to throw Biden under the bus!
Be sure and watch Fox and Friends tomorrow morning. The up and coming young conservative (and niece of a close friend), SE Cupp will be interviewed about Sarah Palin.
If Biden was a GOP candidate the press would crucify him for his gaffes
I knew Biden’s mouth would be good for us when he was picked as the VP candidate...but I underestimated how good it would be. LoL!
PS: SE Cupp is a female, and nice on the eyes.
If FDR was the president at the time, and commercial television did exist, that’s exactly how he WOULD have handled it. So in that sense it’s basically true. The right wing extremists making hay out of this are reaching deep into Carl Roves playbook.
Sincerely yours,
The liberal media
“Who are you and what have you done with President Hoover??”
You go, Joe! Tell her how things were in the 20s, and what it's like being one of the longest-termed and least-accomplished Senators in history.
There are times when I wonder if Bill and Hillary have Biden on the payroll to sink Obambi.
LOL!
I love FReepers’ sense of humor.
I wonder if Crazy Joe is saying stupid things in order to set up a story that he is sick (brain aneurysm?).
After Crazy Joe drops out, the Obama! campaign can say, “Look, it’s obvious that Joe was sick. Look at all his misstatements on the campaign trail. That’s not the Joe we know.”
Does someone have a you-tube of that?
The dems and MSM slam Palin because she is weak on foreign policy and does not know the Bush Doctrine, which does not exist as a doctrine. Biden, on the other hand, gets a pass by the MSM when he does not even know American History.
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