On Jun 28, 6:17 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Remember how the left jumped all over Dan Quayle when he misspelled potato?
> Here's a nice list of screw-ups by our foul-mouth V.P. A real man of
> 'genius.'
>
> From Fox News:
>
> -- On June 25, 2010, Vice President Biden was visiting a custard shop
> outside Milwaukee when the shop manager told him his dessert would be on the
> house if he lowered taxes.
>
> "Don't worry, it's on us," the manager said. "Lower our taxes and we'll call
> it even."
>
> Biden replied: "Why don't you say something nice instead of being a smartass
> all the time?"
>
> -- On May 6, 2010, Vice President Biden said in an address to the European
> Parliament in Belgium that Brussels could be the "capital of the free
> world."
>
> The comment came at the top of a speech used to discuss the threats of
> nuclear proliferation, climate change and international terrorism.
>
> "As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists
> refer to Washington, D.C. as the 'capital of the free world,'" Biden said.
> "But it seems to me that in this great city, which boasts 1,000 years of
> history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European
> Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim
> to that title."
>
> -- On March 23, 2010, Biden stated the obvious when he told President Obama,
> "This is a big f---ing deal," during the bill-signing ceremony for the
> health insurance overhaul. Biden apparently thought the exchange was
> private, but the television microphones picked it up. The president must
> have realized what happened -- Biden later said in an interview that Obama
> was "laughing like the devil" after the event.
>
> -- On March 17, 2010, Biden used a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the
> White House to honor the memory of the Irish prime minister's mother --
> though she was alive.
>
> "God rest her soul," Biden said as he introduced Brian Cowen and Obama.
> Biden quickly corrected his mistake, noting that Cowen's father, not mother,
> was dead.
>
> "Wait ... your mom's still, your mom is still alive. It was your dad (who)
> passed. God bless her soul. I gotta get this straight," Biden said.
>
> -- On July 16, 2009, Biden gave a blunt summation of the administration's
> approach to stimulus spending.
>
> "People, when I say that, look at me and say, 'What are you talking about,
> Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going
> bankrupt?" he said at a stop in Virginia. "The answer is yes."
>
> -- On July 5, 2009, in an interview with ABC's "This Week," Biden conceded
> that the White House team "misread how bad the economy was." His confession
> came as unemployment hit 9.5 percent, despite the administration's
> insistence that it would hold to 8 percent with the stimulus plan.
>
> -- On April 30, 2009, Biden gave advice on dealing with swine flu that
> seemed to contradict President Obama's warning not to panic. Speaking on
> NBC's "Today," Biden, a longtime Amtrak rider who has commuted for decades
> daily from Delaware to Washington, D.C., said he wouldn't advise family
> necessarily against going to Mexico, the source of the H1N1 outbreak, but he
> wouldn't tell them to get into any small area like a subway car, automobile,
> classroom or airplane.
>
> "I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in
> confined places right now," Biden said. "It's not that its going to Mexico,
> it's that you are in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes, it goes
> everywhere through the aircraft. That's me."
>
> -- On March 13, 2009, Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying,
> "An hour late, oh give me a f----ing break," after he arrived on Amtrak at
> Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught
> on a live microphone.
>
> -- During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged
> viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending.
> When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's
> "number."
>
> "You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?" he asked an
> aide standing out of view. "I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm
> actually embarrassed."
>
> -- At a Jan. 30, 2009, swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff,
> Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on
> Inauguration Day.
>
> "Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the
> oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff -- and not
> cabinet members -- the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as
> Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge from Obama.
>
> -- On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering
> crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that
> stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart."
> Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- swore Biden in as vice
> president.
>
> -- When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct.
> 15, 2008, Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing
> to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be,
> as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."
>
> -- In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin
> D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.
>
> "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,
> 'Look, here's what happened," he said.
>
> Herbert Hoover -- not Roosevelt -- was president in 1929, and television had
> not yet been invented in 1929.
>
> -- During a Sept. 12, 2008, speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for
> Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up."
>
> "Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I
> talking about?"
>
> -- At a Sept. 10, 2008, town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Biden said,
> "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice
> president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been
> a better pick than me."
>
> -- Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the
> "lieutenant governor" of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4,
> 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Va.
>
> "I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very
> good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is
> going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in
> the debate," Biden said.
>
> -- Biden said he was running for president -- not vice president -- during a
> Sept. 1, 2008, roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa.
>
> "Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president
> to put aside the national politics and focus on what's happening down
> there," Biden said.
>
> -- Biden referred to John McCain as "George" during his vice presidential
> acceptance speech on Aug. 27, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention in
> Denver, Co. "Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip," he explained.
>
> -- Biden confused army brigades with battalions when speaking about Obama's
> plan for sending troops to Afghanistan.
>
> "Or should we trust Barack Obama, who more than a year ago called for
> sending two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan?"
>
> -- During his first campaign rally with Obama as his vice presidential
> running mate on Aug. 23, 2008, Biden introduced Obama by saying, "A man I'm
> proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United
> States -- Barack America!"
>
> -- On Jan. 31, 2007 -- the day Biden announced his presidential bid -- the
> Delaware Senator was roundly criticized for calling Obama "the first
> mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a
> nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
>
> This is what is wrong with our political system. It's full of idiots.
>
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