Posted on 09/24/2008 3:44:44 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:25 PM
Biden Fires Up the Gaffe-o-Matic
Biden's string of slip-ups started last Monday. Asked by NBC's Meredith Vieira whether the Fed should bail out insurance giant AIG, the senator said no: "I don't think they should be bailed out by the federal government." Unfortunately, the remark had more in common with McCain's initial position on the bailout.
The past few days have been even worse. Speaking Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Biden not only acknowledged that the wealthy would pay higher taxes if if he and Obama won the White House but said that doing so would be "patriotic." "It's time to be patriotic," he said. "Time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut."
Accompanied by a sarcastic ad, McCain's response was scathing: "Raising taxes in a tough economy isn't patriotic. It's not a badge of honor. It's just dumb policy." Expect to hear more on Biden's idea of patriotism before Nov. 4.
Incredibly, though, the senator seems to have saved the worst for last. Asked last night by Katie Couric on the "CBS Evening News," Biden delivered what has to be most off-message statement yet: that one of his campaign's own ads--the spot released earlier this month mocking McCain for not being able to use a computer--was "terrible."
"I didn't know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we would have never done it," he said. The campaign was soon forced to issue a less-than-convincing clarification in Biden's name. (Apparently he'd "never seen" the ad.") Meanwhile, video surfaced this morning of Biden telling a rope-line environmentalist in Ohio that he and Obama "are not supporting clean coal" in America--even though Obama, well, is.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.newsweek.com ...
Biden: The UberMoron!
The least qualified Vice Presidential candidate in American History only a heartbeat away from the least qualified Presidential candidate in American History!
“time to help America get out of the rut”!!! Well, Mr. Slit Eyes - I didn’t help American GET IN THE RUT!!!! Blooming idiot!!!
"When the stock market crashed," Biden told CBS, "Franklin Roosevelt got on TV and didn't just talk about the princes of greed."
Unfortunately, it was President Herbert Hoover in charge during the 1929 crash, not Roosevelt. And there were no TVs.
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/seven/09242008/news/politics/now_bidens_a_crash_dummy_130470.htm
Sorry, I normally proof better than this. I’m so steaming mad right now!!
Surely, someone here, gifted with awesome computer graphics skill can put together the Gaffe-o-Matic.....
BIDEN: "If Barack Obama grew up in my neighborhood in Scranton or Claymont or Wilmington, Delaware, he would have been the guy who had my back. If you're looking for a very sophisticated Harvard graduate who went to Columbia undergrad and was president of the Law Review, he's totally intellectual. Baby, you ain't seen nothing yet. This guy is steel. "
TRANSLATION
"This guy is steel. Baby, if he ever showed up in Scranton
with 10 pounds of gel and hairspray-----badda-bing."
Sure there were TV’s in 1929. I’ve got a Texas Air National Guard memo here that proves it.
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