necropost for a nice video of Joe Biden.
[ame=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_f84qX3pBg”]YouTube - The Biden Chronicles: Anatomy Of The Village Blowhard![/ame]
if you don’t like him, you’ll love this.
If you like him, watch it and ask yourself why you do.
Joe Biden is a real guy. He’s not polished and prepped the way others are, and he will actually answer questions instead of repeating talking points. If you give that many interviews and are candid in your responses, sometimes you’ll accidentally say something stupid. Much like you and me, but we just so happen to not have cameras recording pretty much everything we say.
Now, that being said, this video is ****ing retarded.
Palin was an unprepped and unprepared candidate, Biden has been around long enough to know what to say and how to say it. I would believe you if Biden didn’t say stupid **** on a daily basis, but that’s not the case.
biden’s record, in my opinion, excuses his gaffes. Palin hardly has a record, and is ideologically opposite of me in nearly every way, so she doesn’t get any slack.
It’s not “fair”, but it’s the way it is.
Biden’s admitted plagiarism was awesome! What a splendid fellow.
Palin didnt know if Africa was a continent or a country, or if it was made up of smaller countries.
Joe Biden has chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for longer than I have been alive.
he borrowed a couple lines. big ****ing deal.
well obama said “57 states” … while we’re on the topic of not giving a ****
and Biden didn’t know when the depression was, when tv was invented, and a ton of other stuff. I know everyone makes mistakes, but has made a career of screwing up speeches.
and McCain said that Putin was the president of Germany…who cares, our current president has made a career of messing up speeches, everybody who is in the public eye 24/7 will say ish they don’t mean, everybody on here does it every day, you aren’t under the magnifying glass is the difference…
i said i didn’t care… it’s just pretty remedial and funny to mistake. :dunno:
he borrowed a couple lines. big ****ing deal.
No.
First plagiarism incident from Biden’s college years:
During his first year there, he was accused of having plagiarized 5 of 15 pages of a law review article. Biden said it was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and he was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F, which was subsequently dropped from his record.[15] He was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1969.[14]
Second time, on the national stage during a presidential campaign:
Kinnock’s speech included the lines:
“Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? [Then pointing to his wife in the audience] Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?”
While Biden’s speech included the lines:
“I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? [Then pointing to his wife in the audience] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I’m the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?”
While political speeches often appropriate ideas and language from each other, Biden’s use came under more scrutiny because he somewhat distorted his own family’s background in order to match Kinnock’s.[5][91]
So he’s a blatant liar who’s been caught lying red handed and you guys love him. Is that one of the prime qualities you look for in a candidate? Being a total liar and being stupid enough to get caught? Seems like a great Vice Presidential trait to me. :hsugh:
Yeah, well I guess I’d rather have my VP be the liar, instead of the President himself. Why did we go into war in Iraq? Oh yeah, WMD’s, so where are they? Oh, yeah never found. Let’s not start down this slippery slope…
lame
not any more than anyone else. It’s just that the idiot media and the idiots it serves love to hear gaffes. He might make them a bit more often than others, but in years past the media would have let it go and not made a big deal out of it…
I guess the truth is lame to you? Bush embarrassed himself and his constituency and even more importantly us as a country.
How about back in 2004:
In a speech paying tribute to women reformers around the world, Bush sang the praises of Fathi Jahmi, a Libyan dissident. “Earlier today, the Libyan government released Fathi Jahmi,” Bush said during a White House gathering marking International Women’s Week. “She’s a local government official who was imprisoned in 2002 for advocating free speech and democracy.”
One problem: Jahmi is a man.
‘‘I’m the commander — see, I don’t need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being president.’’
—President George W. Bush, as quoted in Bob Woodward’s Bush at War
one of my favorites:
‘‘Tribal sovereignty means that; it’s sovereign. I mean, you’re a — you’ve been given sovereignty, and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.’’
—President George W. Bush, speaking at a gathering of minority journalists, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
and I’ll leave you with:
‘‘I’m also not very analytical. You know I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.’’
—President George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003
The best was when Bush called the PM of Australia and didn’t know what the G20 was :bowrofl:
I guess all those things are lame from a president…:stick:
So now we will blame the media because Biden is about as smart as Bush is.
Noone likes president Bush, democrat or republican.
“lame” was referring to the excuse about vp vs president and bringing up mistakes from Bush about the war.
Sometimes the truth is lame. The truth is that Biden is a dishonest blow-hard who’s too stupid to even keep his lies in order and gets caught.
You GOP jagoffs had better shut the **** up with all this Anti-American talk. You’re either with us or against us. If you’re criticizing the president, you’re hurting the troops. Shut the **** up right now, and if you hate america so much, why dont you GTFO!
Wow, quite the hypocrisy I see… It was fine when Bush was in office, but now ohhhhh brother (not in the racial sense :eek4:) you better not talk crap about our president because… oh wait… he hasn’t even been sworn in yet! (its ok, CNN still found a way to give him a 75% approval rating).
As an American, I give Obama my best wishes. I sincerely hope that he does such a good job as president that I want to vote him in for a second term. I will however not go quietly into the night if/when he wants to redistribute the money that was worked for so diligently by so many, to give to those who are social parasites. If you want to spread the wealth that is fine, but you better be damn sure to spread the work first.