Gaffe of the Day

September 23, 2008 by dave

I've tried to avoid commenting on any of the gaffes made by our various Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates because frankly, for the most part they're just a simple mistakes. But this one today was just too good to let pass by without comment. I'm sure my sister or one of my liberal friends will probably have a rebuttal gaffe from McCain or Palin and that's fine. I'll be glad to post one of them too. I can't help it. This one just cracked me up.

In an interview with CBS News, Democratic VP Candidate Joe Biden said:

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.'

Of course television wasn't introduced to the public until 1939 and FDR wasn't President in 1929 when the stock market crashed. That would be Herbert Hoover. FDR came in three years later.

What made it even funnier was the response from Biden's spokesman:

I’m proud to say that we Democrats aren’t experts at Herbert Hoover depression economics like John McCain and his pals. From Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, we just get elected to clean up the economic mess these Republicans leave behind.

Ummmm... you may not be an expert on the economics of the depression, but shouldn't you at least know that they didn't have television and who the President was at the time? I thought the response wasn't much better than the gaffe.

Hopefully, Friday we'll hear some actual discussion of the issues.

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