Joe Biden Can't Count

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

[rocks 494]

technically, the word is still job, jobs is just the plural. i'm willing to bet he knows where spain is and doesn't think they are an enemy too.

[lucyrich 20]

So he had single mind fart during a long campaign, where he's been talking with the press all along. Is that the best you can do? I know I've had momentary lapses where I've said far stupider things.

Whether or not he adds an "S" to the end of the three letter root word or fails to count the "S" when he adds it isn't a deal-breaker concerning his ability to govern.

I'll bet he knows what the Bush Doctrine is, and would be able to articulate it when asked repeated questions about it and given multiple chances to demonstrate his knowledge. He probably would get the Cheney reference if someone asked him a question regarding whether the Vice President is part of the Executive Branch of government. He probably even knows that New Hampshire is in the Northeastern part of the US. If you're going to consider these sorts of gaffes relevant, he's far more qualified than his opponent.

[HAL 9000 96]

How am I not surprised by this thread?

[bhajishah 4]

well yah he has had 2 cerebral anuerysms..but still smarter than your everyday joe alaskan

[IAMX 3,055]

well yah he has had 2 cerebral anuerysms..but still smarter than your everyday joe alaskan

Does that mean if Palin was mauled by a bear she might become a little smarter?

SEND OUT THE KODIAKS.

Edited October 16, 2008 by SRVT

[bhajishah 4]

Not sure has most of joe alaskans been mauled by bears??

[almaty 19]

yes, sister cindi is a past time there..wrestling bears..

[natty bumppo 297]

well yah he has had 2 cerebral anuerysms..but still smarter than your everyday joe alaskan

racist ....

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Sunday, October 12, 2008

AMBROSE: Biden's gaffes

Jay Ambrose

COMMENTARY:

During all the hysteria about Sarah Palin and whether she is fit to be vice president, has anyone noticed Joe Biden is a persistent, unreformed, downright clownish bungler whose gaffes are simply too many and too wild to be considered perfectly excusable slips of the tongue?

True, he's a likable guy who projects sincerity and any number of other impressive attributes, and maybe that's why his barrage of mistakes draws no great press criticism. Some commentators have gone after him, of course, but mostly we get buried stories with small-type headlines and opinion pieces on how his gush of talk can get ahead of an astute brain. We mostly get winks when we should get astonishment.

The debate with Mrs. Palin gave us false information very nearly unbelievable in someone who has served in the Senate for 36 years and yaps his head off on TV talk shows all the time. Unbelievably, he said the United States and France kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, when, in fact, no such thing ever happened.

He also made it clear to viewers he had absolutely no idea what the Constitution says about the office he seeks. In stern tones, he informed Mrs. Palin that the vice president can preside over the Senate only in case of a tie vote, and that this is outlined in the Article One, which according to him concerns itself with the executive branch of government.

Nope. Article One is about the legislative branch, and what a part of it says is this: "The vice president of the United States shall be president of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided."

Mr. Biden made any number of other errors, and yes, Mrs. Palin got some things wrong, as well, such as referring to Army Gen. David McKiernan who commands our military in Afghanistan as "McClellan." But nothing she said was as fundamentally amiss as Mr. Biden's inaccuracies, and nothing she has said since her nomination is as dumfounding as he was a while ago on the 1929 stock crash.

"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," he said in an interview with Katie Couric of CBS News. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' "

What we all know, of course, is that TV wasn't around in those days, and that Roosevelt wasn't president then. What we ought also to know is that it bespeaks something frightening to confuse this version of things with Roosevelt's radio talks during the Depression. Either Mr. Biden is so loose with details as to be prone to major policy blunder, is ignorant of basics or just can't distinguish between fact and fiction. Or he may sometimes lie.

This possibility brings us to another sort of mistake he has made in the past and this year, stories about his own life that just aren't true.

He portrayed himself in his vice presidential acceptance speech as coming from a working-class family, but as columnist Steve Chapman has observed, his father had been a business executive, had been part owner of an airport and crop-dusting firm and was a sales manager. Despite some hard times, the father wasn't working class.

Mr. Biden said when running for president three decades ago that he graduated in the top of half of his law-school class. He graduated 76 out of 85.

In the debate, he aimed to show his connection with everyday folks by making it sound as if he sometimes hangs out at Katie's restaurant in Wilmington, Del., only it turns out the place has been closed for 20 years.

Whatever explanation exists for all of this, it does not bolster one's confidence in Mr. Biden's qualifications for vice president.

Jay Ambrose is former Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard News Service.

Edited October 17, 2008 by Virtual wife

[luckytxn 2,264]

If he meant job instead of jobs then yes one lousy job is an increase. Good going Biden.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

So he had single mind fart during a long campaign, where he's been talking with the press all along. Is that the best you can do? I know I've had momentary lapses where I've said far stupider things.

Whether or not he adds an "S" to the end of the three letter root word or fails to count the "S" when he adds it isn't a deal-breaker concerning his ability to govern.

I'll bet he knows what the Bush Doctrine is, and would be able to articulate it when asked repeated questions about it and given multiple chances to demonstrate his knowledge. He probably would get the Cheney reference if someone asked him a question regarding whether the Vice President is part of the Executive Branch of government. He probably even knows that New Hampshire is in the Northeastern part of the US. If you're going to consider these sorts of gaffes relevant, he's far more qualified than his opponent.

So didn't Quayle. Have you no shame?

When will you drones stop mentioning Bush? Give it a break.

[IAMX 3,055]

So he had single mind fart during a long campaign, where he's been talking with the press all along. Is that the best you can do? I know I've had momentary lapses where I've said far stupider things.

Whether or not he adds an "S" to the end of the three letter root word or fails to count the "S" when he adds it isn't a deal-breaker concerning his ability to govern.

I'll bet he knows what the Bush Doctrine is, and would be able to articulate it when asked repeated questions about it and given multiple chances to demonstrate his knowledge. He probably would get the Cheney reference if someone asked him a question regarding whether the Vice President is part of the Executive Branch of government. He probably even knows that New Hampshire is in the Northeastern part of the US. If you're going to consider these sorts of gaffes relevant, he's far more qualified than his opponent.

So didn't Quayle. Have you no shame?

When will you drones stop mentioning Bush? Give it a break.

Yeah, it's not like Bush is the President or anything.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

So he had single mind fart during a long campaign, where he's been talking with the press all along. Is that the best you can do? I know I've had momentary lapses where I've said far stupider things.

Whether or not he adds an "S" to the end of the three letter root word or fails to count the "S" when he adds it isn't a deal-breaker concerning his ability to govern.

I'll bet he knows what the Bush Doctrine is, and would be able to articulate it when asked repeated questions about it and given multiple chances to demonstrate his knowledge. He probably would get the Cheney reference if someone asked him a question regarding whether the Vice President is part of the Executive Branch of government. He probably even knows that New Hampshire is in the Northeastern part of the US. If you're going to consider these sorts of gaffes relevant, he's far more qualified than his opponent.

So didn't Quayle. Have you no shame?

When will you drones stop mentioning Bush? Give it a break.

Yeah, it's not like Bush is the President or anything....

...or a Republican, for that matter.

[Jenn! 918]

That was funny.

I was happy to see that Biden was able to laugh at himself about it on Leno last night.