Biden Gaffes For Your Collection
I wish I could put these on Dixie Cups for you but you'll have to do that yourself. Here, compiled by Fox News is the complete and up to date list of Joe Biden's verbal mishaps.
1. Forced Down by Terrorists?
"If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where (Usama) bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are," Biden said at a campaign stop in Baltimore last week.
Sen. John Kerry, however, set the record straight, telling the Associated Press that the helicopter was "forced down" by a snowstorm.
"It went pretty blind, pretty fast and we were around some pretty dangerous ridges," Kerry said. "So the pilot exercised his judgment that we were better off putting down there, and we all agreed."
2. FDR Did What?
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed," Biden told the CBS Evening News on Sept. 22.
But Herbert Hoover was president in October 1929 when the stock market crashed. FDR wasn't elected until 1932, and television made its debut a decade later, in 1939.
3. That's a Terrible Ad!
When asked by CBS on Sept. 22 how he felt about an Obama campaign ad that made fun of John McCain's inability to use a computer, Biden replied that he thought it was "terrible."
"I didn't know we did it," he said, adding that he wouldn't have approved the ad, but defended Obama's decision to approve it. "The answer is I don't think anything was intentional about that. They were trying to make another point," he said.
4. Working in Coal Mine
"Hope you won't hold it against me, but I am a hard coal miner -- anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania, that's where I was born and raised," Biden said to mine workers in Virginia on Sept. 20.
While his great-grandfather was a mining engineer, his father ran a Delaware car dealership and worked in the oil business. His campaign tried to spin the comments as a joke.
5. "No Coal Plants in America!"
On Sept. 17 at a campaign stop in Maumee, Ohio, Biden told an environmentalist that the Democrats don't support clean coal. "We're not supporting clean coal," he said.
But they do. Obama said his administration will "enter into public private partnerships to develop five 'first-of-a-kind' commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology."
Biden had criticized China for building "two dirty coal plants" every week and polluting the United States. "No coal plants in America," he said. "If they're going to build them over there, make them clean, because they're killing you."
6. He Should Have Picked Hillary
At a campaign stop in Nashua, N.H., on Sept. 10, Biden said Obama may have been better off had he picked Hillary Clinton to be his running mate.
"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let's get that straight," he said. "She's a truly close personal friend; she is qualified to be president of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me, but she is first-rate."
7. You in the Wheelchair, Get Up!
On the campaign train in Columbia, Mo., on Sept. 9, Biden asked State Sen. Chuck Graham to stand up for the crowd. "Stand up Chuck let me see you," Biden said to Graham, who is in a wheelchair. "Oh, God love you, what I am talking about. You're making everybody else stand up though, aren't you pal." Biden then asked everyone in the room to stand up for Graham.
8. Whose Campaign is it Anyway?
On Aug. 23, after Obama announced that he had chosen the Delaware senator as his running mate, Biden slipped and called him "Barack America."
On Sept. 3 at a campaign stop in Fort Myers, Fla., Biden referred to the future "Biden Administration," which he quickly corrected to an "Obama-Biden Administration."
"Believe me, that wasn't a Freudian slip," Biden said. "Oh Lordy day, I tell ya."
9. Shot at Seven Times in Iraq?
Biden said in a CNN/YouTube debate on July 23, 2007, that he was shot at seven times inside Iraq's Green Zone.
Two weeks later, however, he amended his story, telling The Hill newspaper, "I was near where a shot landed." He said a shot landed outside the building in the Green Zone where he and another senator spent the night in December 2005. While they were shaving in the morning, the building shook.
"No one got up and ran from the room-it wasn't that kind of thing," Biden told the Hill. "It's not like I had someone holding a gun to my head."
10. So Fresh and So Clean
When talking about his eventual running mate when they were still competing for the Democratic presidential nomination in January 2007, Biden blundered when talking about Sen. Barack Obama to the New York Observer.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."
He quickly retracted the statement, explaining, "Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that the Democratic or Republican Party has produced at least since I've been around," he said in a conference call a few days later. "And he's fresh. He's new. He's smart. He's insightful. And I really regret that some have taken totally out of context my use of the world 'clean.'"
11. Biden on Race
In June 2006, at the outset of a run for the presidency, Biden joked on camera, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
When the video hit YouTube the next month, Biden's office defended him, saying, "The point Senator Biden was making is that there has been a vibrant Indian-American community in Delaware for decades."
12. Grandson of a Coal Miner?
Bidents 1988 presidential bid imploded when it was revealed he was lifting parts of his stump speech -- and parts of his supposed family history -- from a speech given by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.
Biden said he was the first in his family to go to college. He wasn't. He said he was the grandson of a coal miner who "would come up [from the mines] after 12 hours and play football."
While Biden did attribute statements to Kinnock several times, in a Democratic debate at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 23, 1987, he didn't give Kinnock credit when he plagiarized his speech. It was also revealed that Biden plagiarized a paper in law school. That tape kicked off the controversy that sunk his campaign.
Compiled by FOXNews.com's Jen Lawinski
1. Forced Down by Terrorists?
"If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where (Usama) bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are," Biden said at a campaign stop in Baltimore last week.
Sen. John Kerry, however, set the record straight, telling the Associated Press that the helicopter was "forced down" by a snowstorm.
"It went pretty blind, pretty fast and we were around some pretty dangerous ridges," Kerry said. "So the pilot exercised his judgment that we were better off putting down there, and we all agreed."
2. FDR Did What?
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed," Biden told the CBS Evening News on Sept. 22.
But Herbert Hoover was president in October 1929 when the stock market crashed. FDR wasn't elected until 1932, and television made its debut a decade later, in 1939.
3. That's a Terrible Ad!
When asked by CBS on Sept. 22 how he felt about an Obama campaign ad that made fun of John McCain's inability to use a computer, Biden replied that he thought it was "terrible."
"I didn't know we did it," he said, adding that he wouldn't have approved the ad, but defended Obama's decision to approve it. "The answer is I don't think anything was intentional about that. They were trying to make another point," he said.
4. Working in Coal Mine
"Hope you won't hold it against me, but I am a hard coal miner -- anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania, that's where I was born and raised," Biden said to mine workers in Virginia on Sept. 20.
While his great-grandfather was a mining engineer, his father ran a Delaware car dealership and worked in the oil business. His campaign tried to spin the comments as a joke.
5. "No Coal Plants in America!"
On Sept. 17 at a campaign stop in Maumee, Ohio, Biden told an environmentalist that the Democrats don't support clean coal. "We're not supporting clean coal," he said.
But they do. Obama said his administration will "enter into public private partnerships to develop five 'first-of-a-kind' commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology."
Biden had criticized China for building "two dirty coal plants" every week and polluting the United States. "No coal plants in America," he said. "If they're going to build them over there, make them clean, because they're killing you."
6. He Should Have Picked Hillary
At a campaign stop in Nashua, N.H., on Sept. 10, Biden said Obama may have been better off had he picked Hillary Clinton to be his running mate.
"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let's get that straight," he said. "She's a truly close personal friend; she is qualified to be president of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me, but she is first-rate."
7. You in the Wheelchair, Get Up!
On the campaign train in Columbia, Mo., on Sept. 9, Biden asked State Sen. Chuck Graham to stand up for the crowd. "Stand up Chuck let me see you," Biden said to Graham, who is in a wheelchair. "Oh, God love you, what I am talking about. You're making everybody else stand up though, aren't you pal." Biden then asked everyone in the room to stand up for Graham.
8. Whose Campaign is it Anyway?
On Aug. 23, after Obama announced that he had chosen the Delaware senator as his running mate, Biden slipped and called him "Barack America."
On Sept. 3 at a campaign stop in Fort Myers, Fla., Biden referred to the future "Biden Administration," which he quickly corrected to an "Obama-Biden Administration."
"Believe me, that wasn't a Freudian slip," Biden said. "Oh Lordy day, I tell ya."
9. Shot at Seven Times in Iraq?
Biden said in a CNN/YouTube debate on July 23, 2007, that he was shot at seven times inside Iraq's Green Zone.
Two weeks later, however, he amended his story, telling The Hill newspaper, "I was near where a shot landed." He said a shot landed outside the building in the Green Zone where he and another senator spent the night in December 2005. While they were shaving in the morning, the building shook.
"No one got up and ran from the room-it wasn't that kind of thing," Biden told the Hill. "It's not like I had someone holding a gun to my head."
10. So Fresh and So Clean
When talking about his eventual running mate when they were still competing for the Democratic presidential nomination in January 2007, Biden blundered when talking about Sen. Barack Obama to the New York Observer.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."
He quickly retracted the statement, explaining, "Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that the Democratic or Republican Party has produced at least since I've been around," he said in a conference call a few days later. "And he's fresh. He's new. He's smart. He's insightful. And I really regret that some have taken totally out of context my use of the world 'clean.'"
11. Biden on Race
In June 2006, at the outset of a run for the presidency, Biden joked on camera, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
When the video hit YouTube the next month, Biden's office defended him, saying, "The point Senator Biden was making is that there has been a vibrant Indian-American community in Delaware for decades."
12. Grandson of a Coal Miner?
Bidents 1988 presidential bid imploded when it was revealed he was lifting parts of his stump speech -- and parts of his supposed family history -- from a speech given by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.
Biden said he was the first in his family to go to college. He wasn't. He said he was the grandson of a coal miner who "would come up [from the mines] after 12 hours and play football."
While Biden did attribute statements to Kinnock several times, in a Democratic debate at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 23, 1987, he didn't give Kinnock credit when he plagiarized his speech. It was also revealed that Biden plagiarized a paper in law school. That tape kicked off the controversy that sunk his campaign.
Compiled by FOXNews.com's Jen Lawinski
Posted by Michael Higby @ 10/03/2008 12:00:00 PM
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God Bless George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
We love you and appreciate your hard work all of these years!
Thank GOD for Barack Obama!
Thank GOD!
CNN post-debate survey says:
Palin exceeded expectations. (Of course, her Gomer Pyle routine up until the debate severely lowered our expectations.)
By 50 to 36%, Biden did better in the debate because he was more intelligent, more qualified, and answered the questions better.
By 50 to 26%, those who were polled felt that Biden was more intelligent. (Let's consider that a victory for Palin.)
But most troubling for Palin was that 87% felt that Biden was qualified to be president, but just 46% felt that way about Palin.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/03/biden.palin.analysis/index.html
Biden's latest gaffe...
KANSAS CITY (CNN) - Appearing at a campaign rally at a local union hall, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden may have exceeded all expectations and made his biggest gaffe of all time:
"Let me tell ya folks, Barack Obama knows a thing or two about leadership. He's from Illinois, a state, yea, a state that the old coalsplitter, uh, railsplitter Abraham Lincoln was from. Lincoln man, now that guy was something, he knew a thing or two about, uh, leadership too ya know. He didn't suspend his campaign when the Spanish American War broke out and unlike John McCain who is just dead wrong Lincoln, because he was the President, took action and didn't avoid the foreign leaders. He was on his BlackBerry and sending text messages to Mexico City and telling those Spanish we had to sit down for peace. And that's why now California is the big, beautiful, diverse state that it is. Yea, thanks buddy."
Barack Obama's former pastor has been cavorting with another man's wife, whom he romanced while she worked at a church in Dallas run by one of his disciples, according to a report in the New York Post.
Elizabeth Payne, 37, told the Post that she and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, 67, had a sexual relationship this year and that she was fired from her job when the affair was made public. Payne had been working at Friendship-West Baptist Church as a secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, a longtime Wright protege.
McCain gafee of just stupid?
Our Economy is fundamentally strong !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11lMFTUzXhg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBTVUHm1TJY
Sara Palin's Facebook page:
http://www.holytaco.com/2008/09/29/sarah-palins-facebook-page/?hawt
Here come the dirty tricks.
Push polling has started up against Obama in key states. The tactic involves phone callers conducting a fake survey and in the process asking questions like, "Would you be more or less likely to vote for Barak Obama if you knew he supported Hamas?"
It's a tactic that Bush used effectively against McCain in the South Carolina primarly.
Finding responsible parties isn't easy, but you would certainly expect the McCain campaign to condemn the practices and urge those who are doing it to stop, even if that's said with fingers crossed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/03/uselections2008.barackobama1
Don't forget the article from yesterday's Mayor Sam.
Within moments of the last one, Big Mouth Biden fires off yet another gaffe. He's made dumb remarks about Indian-Americans and the disabled, this time he finds it appropriate to make a joke about Jews during a recent speech:
Joe Biden began his remarks to the National Jewish Democratic Council last week with a joke about how Jews like to argue.
The Yeshiva crew team, he said, sent a spy to Cambridge find out why the Harvard rowers always beat them. The informant called his coach from alongside the river. "He said, 'They've got eight guys rowing and only one yelling!' " he said.
The main stream media will give Biden a pass on this but imagine if John McCain went to a meeting of Urban League and started off a speech with "Temple University College sent some folks to Harvard to find out why their graduates get more jobs on Wall Street. They came back to their peers and said it's because White people work harder." That would be the end of that!
With many Jews doubtful of Barack Obama's committment to Israel's security, Biden really has little room to shoot his mouth off like this.
In this piece, Roger Ebert makes what may be a very valid point that film critics may be better qualified to evaluate political debates than political analysts.
The point being that viewers see image and form impressions more than they critically analyze the positions and who was telling the truth.
He said that Palin was nervous, and that was understandable because she was like a person trying to defend her doctoral thesis without ever having written one.
He added that she was more like a character in "Fargo" than possibly the president of the United States.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/10/you_didnt_ask_me_about_the_deb.html
McCain campaign now says that during the debate Palin misstated McCain's position regarding bankruptcy reform.
Under current law, the 2nd through 7th homes and yachts and planes are protected if a person goes bankrupt, but the primary home.
That works out great for the rich folks like McCain, but not so well for the rest of us who are lucky to own one home.
Biden and the Democrats have been pushing bill to close the loophole. During the debate, Palin was asked if she opposed the bill, and she said no.
Likely she was making up an answer that reflected her belief that the campaign and her peformance at the debate was geared toward reform and Joe Sixpack.
Clearly it isn't.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/3/84824/0108/623/618748
Palin Gets McCain Stance on Homeowner Protections Wrong
ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports:
Sarah Palin got her facts wrong in Thursday's debate with Joe Biden when discussing where John McCain stands on new protections for homeowners facing foreclosures.
The Alaska governor incorrectly made it sound like McCain supports giving bankruptcy judges the power to rewrite mortgage payment terms on first homes. He doesn't. The McCain campaign confirms to ABC News that Palin misstated McCain's position.
Questions
1. Why isn't Roger Ebert dead yet?
2. Why is Kos so hot for Obama that he lies and inflates poll numbers? Did Obama suck Kos' dick?
3. Where is Bill Clinton?
4. Why are the Democrats afraid?
Thank JESUS we have Barack Obama, his lovely, graceful wife Michele and two beautiful daughters to make our lives worth living again.
THANK YOU Jesus!
Amen 3:18 PM!! Obama and his wonderful family have healed my soul, lifted my self esteem and brought sunshine to my life. No more rainy days and I have only Christ the Lord to thank for delivering Barack Obama to this world!
2:48
In answer to your question "Where's Bill Clinton," he's campaigning for Obama and turning up the heat.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/01/does-bill-clintons-new-sl_n_130887.html
He better start stoking them fires and turning up the heat right quick! I done heard from a reliable source that global cooling is starting to set in.
bill clinton is annoying
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