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So Atheists: Does this long list of epic fails by your VP show your nemesis Sarah Palin to be genius Epic Win?
-- On July 16, 2009, Biden gave a blunt summation of the administration's approach to stimulus spending.
"People, when I say that, look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?" he said at a stop in Virginia. "The answer is yes."
-- On July 5, 2009, in an interview with ABC's "This Week," Biden conceded that the White House team "misread how bad the economy was." His confession came as unemployment hit 9.5 percent, despite the administration's insistence that it would hold to 8 percent with the stimulus plan.
-- On April 30, 2009, Biden gave advice on dealing with swine flu that seemed to contradict President Obama's warning not to panic. Speaking on NBC's "Today," Biden, a longtime Amtrak rider who has commuted for decades daily from Delaware to Washington, D.C., said he wouldn't advise family necessarily against going to Mexico, the source of the H1N1 outbreak, but he wouldn't tell them to get into any small area like a subway car, automobile, classroom or airplane.
"I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places right now," Biden said. "It's not that its going to Mexico, it's that you are in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes, it goes everywhere through the aircraft. That's me."
-- On March 13, 2009, Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, "An hour late, oh give me a f----ing break," after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught on a live microphone.
-- During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's "number."
"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?" he asked an aide standing out of view. "I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed."
-- At a Jan. 30, 2009, swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day.
"Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff -- and not cabinet members -- the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge from Obama.
-- On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- swore Biden in as vice president.
-- When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."
-- In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.
"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," he said.
Herbert Hoover -- not Roosevelt -- was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented in 1929.
-- During a Sept. 12, 2008, speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up."
"Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I talking about?"
-- At a Sept. 10, 2008, town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Biden said, "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."
-- Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the "lieutenant governor" of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4, 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Va.
"I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate," Biden said.
-- Biden said he was running for president -- not vice president -- during a Sept. 1, 2008, roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa.
"Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president
- During his first campaign rally with Obama as his vice presidential running mate on Aug. 23, 2008, Biden introduced Obama by saying, "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States -- Barack America!"
-- On Jan. 31, 2007 -- the day Biden announced his presidential bid -- the Delaware Senator was roundly criticized for calling Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
No, but I refer to an American "hero".
How can we fail to appreciate George Bush when his record speaks for itself?
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
LAW ENFORCEMENT
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving while
intoxicated. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license
suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not
available.
MILITARY
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a
drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas
Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
COLLEGE
I graduated from Yale University with a low-C average. I was a cheerleader.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in
Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil
in Texas. The company went bankrupt right after I sold my stock. I bought
the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using
taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our friends in the oil
industry, including Enron CEO Ken Lay, I was elected governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making
Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston
replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America. I cut taxes
and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American
history. With help from my Governor-of-Florida-brother, and my father's
appointments to the Supreme Court I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT
I'm the first U.S. President in history to enter office with a criminal
record. I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over a
billion dollars per week. I spent a U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted
the U.S. Treasury. I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in
U.S. history. I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed
in any 12-month period. I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a
12-month period. I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the
history of the U.S. stock market. In my first year in office, over 2 million
Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice,
had a Chevron oil tanker named after her. I set the record for most campaign
fund-raising trips by a U.S. President. I am the all-time U.S. and world
record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations. My
largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth
Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud (Enron) in U.S.
History. My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to
assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.
I've protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or
prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky
affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate
rip-offs in U.S. history.
I presided over the biggest energy crisis in history, refusing intervention
when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed. I presided over the
highest gasoline prices in U.S. history. I changed U.S. policy to allow
convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. I appointed more
convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history. I
created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the
history of the United States government.
I've broken more international treaties than any U.S. President. I am the
first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S.
from the Human Rights Commission I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court
of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoner of war"
detainees and thereby refused to abide by the Geneva Convention. I'm the
first President in history to refuse U.N. election inspectors (during the
2002 U.S. election). I set the record for fewest numbers of press
conferences of any President since the advent of television. I set an
all-time record for most vacation days in any one-year period. After taking
off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure
in my nation's history. I garnered unprecedented sympathy for the U.S. after
the World Trade Center attacks, and less than a year later made the U.S the
most hated country in the world, possibly the largest failure of diplomacy
in world history.
- ITLLv 41 decade ago
Biden is currently everyone's VP in America, so that does not exclude you or right-wing Christians. Just because I'm an atheist doesn't mean I support liberals, as I am slightly leaning on the side of conservatives. Both Biden and Palin have said idiotic things, so neither of them are more of an "epic" failure than the other.
But those quotes show that Biden, as an old man, may be suffering from senility.
- Anonymous5 years ago
i'm sorry, dear slave, but you also need diplomatic experience. can you see any foreign countries from your house? is there a consulate in your neighborhood? no wait! you're greek, right? so, you've got that in the bag. now, how about winking? can you wink at a camera? if not, maybe you could pucker your lips instead. have you ever been the mayor of a tiny hamlet or governor of a state without income tax or major urban areas? can you talk like a cheese head? can you talk like a jeese head? there are SO many qualifications to being a VP!
- 1 decade ago
Sarah Palin is an idiot. Just about anyone would be a better Vice President than she could possibly be. Thank God Obama won!
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- Jess HLv 71 decade ago
Sarah Palin is more stupid in five minutes than Biden is in all those instances combined. I would put money down that the woman couldn't find the United States on a map.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Quit filibustering. You look ridiculous.
And no: in two very important senses. One, the intellectual missteps of one do not enhance or improve the intellectual missteps of another.
Two, ain't nothin' gonna make Sister Sarah look good. I hope like hell she keeps on talking, because every time she opens her mouth, she reminds us all what a Republican really is.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Ann Coulter deserves a punch in the face. She's the ultimate Troll.
- RaatzLv 71 decade ago
Ann, you should really be trolling the Politics section. No one here cares about Biden.
- Jabber wockLv 71 decade ago
He's not my VP.
No presidents in my country, though there has been a tradition of Deputy Prime Ministers with foot-in-mouth syndrome...
- dfj39Lv 51 decade ago
You are confusing political leaning and religious/non-religious beliefs. But I'm not surprised. It is fairly typical.