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September 24, 2008
One More Biden Gaffe
Yesterday's quick roundup of recent Biden gaffes left out this gem:
Part of what a leader does is to instill confidence, is demonstrate that he or she knows what they're talking about and communicates to people, "if you listen to me and follow what I'm suggesting, we can fix this."
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about, you know, the princes of greed, he said "look, here's what happened."
When the stock market crashed, Hoover was president, and television was still in the laboratory.
More alarming even than his ignorance of American history is the way Plugs holds up Roosevelt as the gold standard of American leadership. FDR's main legacy was to use the Depression and strong-arm tactics to move the country radically toward socialism. Another president like him would leave us somewhere between France and the Soviet Union.
The money quote starts at 1:48:
Hat tip: Lone Star Times; on tips from Byron, Wiggins, and V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 24, 2008 6:47 AM
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"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about, you know, the princes of greed, he said "look, here's what happened."...
That has to be the greatest line since "...when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" from "Animal House".
Don't stop him, he's on a roll.
Posted by: on-the-rocks at September 24, 2008 7:01 AM
Maybe Biden is really from the Mirror Universe on Star Trek where that actually happened? - you know, the one where Spock has the goatee. Okay, thats unlikely but it IS possible. Then again it depends on what the meaning of IS is.
Posted by: Anonymous at September 24, 2008 7:06 AM
Only proving he can open his mouth and insert his foot and just what is his mirror universes counter part is like
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 24, 2008 7:09 AM
To the chagrin of Dummycrats baby killings are on the decline.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080924/hl_hsn/usabortionrateat30yearlow
But they are up among the poor and blacks. Funny how black community continues to mindlessly support Dummycrats who are trying to exterminate them by making it easy to kill their babies.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at September 24, 2008 7:13 AM
Correction... you COULD purchase a TV...
the octagon came out in 1928... and there were a few others... but the number of people that had them were a very few wealthy people in very low numbers (thousands in a country of millions).
never the less, there were no real tv stations yet, and radio was the big thing.
crank up your atwater kent, and lean in for only the shadow knows what evil lurks in the heart of biden.. bwa ha ha ha ha....
Posted by: Artfldgr at September 24, 2008 7:14 AM
Wasn't Margaret Sanger's original motive for supporting abortion rights, a racist eugenics program aimed at blacks?
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at September 24, 2008 7:30 AM
I get more laughs out of Biden and Obama's gaffes than any sitcom on tv. The term that comes to mind to describe them, Tool.
Posted by: Zen at September 24, 2008 7:46 AM
The man has been and is stupid. I guess that's why Obama selected him.
Posted by: Apostle53 at September 24, 2008 9:26 AM
What is that sound? Silence you say? Silence from the trolls... ahhhhh... beautiful silence.
Posted by: Thulsa Doom at September 24, 2008 12:53 PM
Franklin was actually the first president to appear on TV.
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/POTUSFARQ.html#question9
Posted by: Eric at September 24, 2008 1:25 PM
An over-looked point in the hilarity is that Roosevelt NEVER TRIED to explaine the cause of the Great Depression; even decades later, historians, ecconomists and political scholars were trying to puzzle it out!
Roosevelt has been given a bad rep for "prolonging the depression", but that doesn't wash because it continued for years in OTHER countries as well. The problem was that it was a lot MORE than an ecconomic problem, it was a social one too. The minimun wage (Now a political football) for instance, was created to insure that workers would be PAID. Before then, people were working for food, OR lodging, OR tips. The New Deal was also an expansion of Hoover's policies, something that Republicans seem to have forgotten.
I could go on, but it would take a hour just to write about the basics. I suggest you check out The American Heritage History of the 1920s and 1930s from your library as a start; it's a wonderfull book about early 20th century America and it touches on other countries, too.
Posted by: KHarn at September 24, 2008 1:57 PM
