All gaffes are local: Missouri prominent in “Bidenisms” collection
Biden at the Mathews-Dickey club
The online magazine Slate was able to turn its roster of “Bushisms” – the malapropisms, grammatical errors and verbal missteps of President George W. Bush — into a quartet of books and even a calendar.
With Bush out of office, Slate has a new — and fertile — target.
Say hello to “Bidenisms,” taken from Vice President Joe Biden’s canon of off-the-cuff and head-scratching remarks.
The inaugural edition published last week includes such memorable moments as Biden’s “bright and clean” comment about his future boss, and his introduction of said boss — “Barack America!” — at their first rally together in Springfield, Ill. last year.
Two of the quips in Slate’s collection took place in Missouri, where Biden spent plenty of time on the campaign trail.
Gaffe No. 1: Biden, at Washington University for the vice-presidential debate, suggesting that a real-world picture of the economy can be found at places like Katie’s Restaurant — a Wilmington, Del. restaurant that had been closed for more than a decade.
Then there is this wince-inducer from Columbia, Mo. At a campaign rally in 2008, Biden asked former Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham to “stand up” and be recognized.
Graham, of course, uses a wheelchair.
Biden has a ways to go before he breaks any records in the gaffe department — Slate’s collection of Bushisms has hundreds of entries.
But, then again, Bush had eight years in office — Biden’s still got at least three more years to cover some ground.
OMG, the best was when he told Katie Couric that Roosevelt came on TV during the start of the Great Depression. The media going after Sarah Palin as a moron, totally ignored this one. Hoover was president then and there was no TV then. No problem as for as the gov-run media was concerned.
WHEW! Boy we really lucked out and dodged that Sarah Palin fiasco, huh America!
Wooooo! Can you imagine how embarrassing it would be to have a vice president who said stupid stuff all the time and offended the Russians and had a hand in developing cockamamie political strateg… uh… Oh.
Maybe you can imagine it after all.
In fact, I can sum it up in three letters: J.O.E.B.
I bet he can spell potato.
Carol-The media was all over the FDR mistake- I saw it several times on more than one channel. You are friggin’ wrong again. Don’t you ever tire of being uninformed? It’s almost a national sport to broadcast politician’s public mistakes. Nobody gets a pass.
Oh, my… How ‘bout cataloging P. Obama’s goofiness instead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7zhnctF4c
and who’d a thunk we’d elect somebody that doesn’t know the definition of “tax”:
STEPHANOPOULOS: That may be, but it’s still a tax increase.
OBAMA: No. That’s not true, George.
blogs abcnews com/george/2009/09/obama-mandate-is-not-a-tax.html
–When is an increase in costs not a tax? When Obama says so? This President is starting to make Biden look like the smart one, and the preferable choice.
At the 76 (or was it 80) Democrat convention, Jimmy “worst president ever” Carter introduced “The next vice-president of The United States, Hubert Horatio Hornblower.” It was one of the loudest and most blatant gaffes ever but I’ve never seen it replayed on national Tv since. Oh, that’s right . He’s a Democrat.
A. Centrist: You’re right. Some people just can’t get their facts straight. Here’s a quick check:
1. LA Times: Joe Biden’s history lesson off by 4 years and 1 president
2. Newsday: Biden makes FDR gaffe during CBS interview
3. NY Times: Say What?: Joe Biden, FDR & the TV
4. SF Chronicle: Biden blunders, says FDR led nation during 1929 crash
calling “Austrian” a language
- bowing to the Saudi king
- releasing a photo of a conference call with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which the president was showing the soles of his shoes to the camera (an Arab insult)
- saying “let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s”
- saying the United States was “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world”
- suggesting Arabic translators be shifted from Iraq to Afghanistan where Arabic is not a native language
- sending a letter to French President Jacques Chirac when Nicolas Sarkozy was the president of France
- holding a town-hall meeting in France and not calling on a single French citizen
- referring to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when he meant Cinco de Mayo
h/t washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/23/worst-foreign-policy-ever/?feat=home_editorials