Posted on 08/24/2008 3:41:06 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Politico.com:
Sen. Joe Biden’s gotten a lot of unsolicited advice on how to curb his gaffe habit, but he might start by practicing his running mate’s name.
Three times during his inaugural speech as Barack Obama’s vice presidential candidate Saturday, Biden butchered Obama’s name — in different ways. Biden called Obama “Barackal Bama” and “Barack Obaman,” as well as — perhaps most bizarre — “Barack America.”
Obama, by his own admission, has a “funny name,” and Biden did get it right at least a dozen times in his speech.
But the mispronunciations did not go unnoticed. The campaign cleaned up the “Barackal” and “Obaman” slips in what it billed as a “verbatim” transcript of the speech sent out shortly after Biden wrapped up. And it replaced the “America” in “Barack America” with an ellipsis.
Well Biden is 65, so he should be forgiven for a mental lapse or two or three. Plus most people feel that attacking a political candidate's age is akin to ageism and only liberals do that.
He was drunk the day his mamma got out of prision.....
“Well Biden is 65, so he should be forgiven for a mental lapse or two or three.”
Thanks for the kind words.
Barry Soetero doesn't even know Barack's name.
That’s Osama Obama...no, Barry Hussein....no, uh, uh .....
Hey, Joe! Just call him BO.
It works for me!
Joe Biden hit his peak during the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings. I saw one session in which, presumably, it was BIden’s turn to put forth a question, only to have it transmogrify into The Joe Biden Show: it was an endless digression within a detour wrapped in a monologue buoyed up by a gratuitous self-memorializing personal history lesson, a la Bill Clinton. All through it Biden wore this flickeringly rueful yet affectionate expression on his face, as if his mere vocal production were enough to make him fall in love over and over with himself. He’d long ago forgotten where he was apparently, or what he was doing there-—it was , once again, like Bill CLinton, all about him. I would pay anything for a tape featuring Biden and his performance at those hearings. “Priceless”.
Biden forgot how to pronounce Barry’s name more times than Cindy owns houses.
>>I would pay anything for a tape featuring Biden and his performance at those hearings.
They’re free!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2yfARRF9Co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4RlAJX_Pdg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k98Rsr2cZys&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djWeNDcWHEg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJeD2XXg254&feature=related
You’ll enjoy post # 10.
(a former college roommate testified for Thomas)
So I recalled from a Clarence Thomas thread a couple of years ago. :-)
After a month of leave and prepping for the Nevada Test Site, I watched the hearings. It was some of the goofiest questioning I ever witnessed from Democrats in Congress.
(That time in my life is how I choose to remember it).
Thomas was very good.
I thought he did a great job under very difficult circumstances.
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