The liberal media have been brutal in their assault on that great American reformer, Sarah Palin. With an 80% approval rating, she was the most popular governor in the USA two months ago, but it's slipped to 68%, and no wonder. Besides being targeted for more investigation in the last two months than Obama has had in the two years he's been a candidate, Palin has endured relentless mocking of what she has said, as well as often being publicly perceived as saying what Tina Fey's character has said. Almost ignored are the gaffes that the other VP candidate has uttered. Most of these gaffes came within the last two months:
1) Biden on poor D.C. school performance compared to Iowa: "There's less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that is, are minorities. What is it in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with."
2) Biden, predicting crisis before June: "Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy (Obama)...we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
3) Biden told Jon Stewart, "John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off — be well off no matter who ...," where Stewart cut him off.
4) Biden repeatedly insisted that Hillary Clinton would've probably been a better choice for Obama.
5) Biden publicly opposed the AIG bailout, not realizing his running mate was for it
6) Biden called Palin Alaska's "Lieutenant Governor".
7) Biden accidentaly introduced his running mate as "Barack America".
8) Biden, while trying to win votes in hotly contested Ohio, taunted Ohioans by announcing that Delaware's team could "kick" the Ohio State football team's, uh, posterior.
9) Biden publicly promised to ban "clean" coal after his running mate promised to invest heavily in it.
10) Biden told an endearing three-sentence summary supposedly about his own life, but it was taken nearly word-for-word from British politician Neil Kinnock.
11) Biden claimed his helicopter was "forced down" in enemy territory, but it was later learned that the flight was only postponed because of weather.
12) Biden looked at Missouri state senator Chuck Graham--seated in front of him--and demanded that he "Stand up!" without noticing that he was in a wheelchair.
13) Biden called Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean...to run for President," insulting Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, Carol Braun, and Al Sharpton.
14) Biden offended certain immigrants in Delaware by claiming, "You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking."
15) Biden angrily challenged a sincere questioner by insisting, "My IQ higher than yours!"
16) Biden on poor D.C. school performance compared to Iowa: "There's less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that is, are minorities. What is it in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with."
17) Biden, unaware that Hoover was President in 1929, many years before TV was invented: “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘look, here’s what happened."'
18) Biden slammed an Obama ad that mocked McCain for being "computer illiterate" without mentioning that it is McCain's war injuries that inhibit him from using a keyboard. "I thought that (the ad) was terrible, by the way," Biden said. Asked why it was done, he said: "I didn't know we did it, and if I had anything to do with it, we'd have never done it."
19) Delaware, he noted, was a “slave state that fought beside the North. That’s only because we couldn’t figure out how to get to the South. There were a couple of states in the way.”
20) Biden: "...a three letter word: J-O-B-S!"
21)Just after 9/11: “Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”
22) Forgot address of website he's in charge of:
http://wbztv.com/video/?id=73411@wbz.dayport.com
24-28) The following quotes were taken from one speech to Wake Forest University's graduating class on 5/18/9:
--"I believe so strongly, as you may recall when I was here in October, not in you particularly but your generation, that I don’t have a single doubt in my mind we’re on the cusp not only of a new century but a new day for this country and the world."
--"There’s not a single issue on this President’s plate that will not yield a change — just merely by ignoring it, it will change."
--"Folks, we’re either going to fundamentally change the course of history, or fail the generations that come after us, because change will occur. Non-action is action, unlike most generations."
--"But today, with all the difficulties you face, you graduated into a moment where your opportunities are much greater. And your charge is not to restore anything but to make anew."
--"This has been the history of the journey of America — never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, never have the American people let their country down at rare moments, similar moments in our history. And it’s a journey we’re all going to take together." (was he channeling a disoriented Churchill?)
29) “As you do your job, know that Judge Sotomayor has your back as well. And throughout this nominating process, I know you’ll have her back,” Biden said, implying that a Supreme Court Justice would favor one group over another.
30) Biden lectured the press about a new automobile tunnel that's actually for trains.
31) Biden, named by Obama as head of the economic stimulus team, admits it's above his pay grade.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
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