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| Oh, that Joe! - Biden imagines alternate universe, circa 1929 |
| 2008-09-23 |
| Ben Smith, Politico oe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by. He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'" As Reason's Jesse Walker footnotes it: "And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, 'Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?'" |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #9 The VP debate should be VERY entertaining. Ever since this story hit, I've been entertaining myself with a vision of Sarah at the debate, smiling sweetly at Ol' Joe and asking "So tell me, Senator...was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-09-23 21:52 |
| #8 The VP debate should be VERY entertaining. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-09-23 18:40 |
| #7 I wish my dad could have told me more about FDR's television chats, but he was too busy checking his email to pay attention. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2008-09-23 15:30 |
| #6 Hair plugs. 2 brain aneurysms. Too many years in the Senate. All combined will make you just as stupid now as you were 30 years ago. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-09-23 14:47 |
| #5 If he's been there for the FDR speech, think Joe would have yelled for him to, "Stand Up"? |
| Posted by: Beavis 2008-09-23 13:57 |
| #4 I wonder if Joe's dissappointed that we don't have flying cars yet? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-23 13:48 |
| #3 I believe that slo-joe has had hiself a couple of strokes. |
| Posted by: Minister of funny walks 2008-09-23 13:41 |
| #2 Most of the rules we have regarding wallstreet abuse came about because of Joe Kennedy's ability to abuse the system. I don't know how Joe Kenney's memory is treated in the Democrats but his children are considered Saints so its possible he stands high and if so I'm not sure the Dems want to dig to deep into history. Also Hillary said recently that we need some big ass government stuff to handle it like we did in the Depression but a lot of economists think Roosevelt may have lengthened the Depression by some of his actions. Of course WW2 got us out and we've got a couple nations looking to help us fill that slot so no worries. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-23 13:07 |
| #1 Chronic "diahrea of the mouth" and early-onset Alzheimer's. Keep talkin', Joe! |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-09-23 12:58 |