| Harvey Specter | 09-21-2009 10:14 PM |
Collection of gaffes and head-slappers from vice president Joe Biden.
Here are some of our favorite Bidenisms, in no particular order: Quote:
''I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.''—Responding in the New York Times to uproar over his telling a campaign event questioner that he was smarter than said voter (around that time he released a statement admitting much of what he had said about his academic record was not true), Sept. 21, 1987
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"Since 1994 with the Gingrich revolution, just take a look at Iraq, Venezuela, Katrina, what's gone down at Virginia Tech, Darfur, Imus. Take a look. This didn't happen accidentally, all these things."—Blaming Republicans for having "wallowed in the politics of polarization," New York, April 19, 2007
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"Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see you. … Oh, God love you! What am I talking about? I tell you what. You're making everybody else stand up, though, pal. … Stand up for Chuck!"—Telling Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is bound to a wheelchair, to rise at campaign event, Columbia, Mo., Sept. 9, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2mzbuRgnI4
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"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. … She is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she's easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."—Nashua, N.H., Sept. 10, 2008
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalra...hillary-a.html
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"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' "—Revising history slightly in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnKcRo8DNYY
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"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."—Discussing Barack Obama during an interview with the New York Observer, Feb. 4, 2007
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"Am I doing this again? For the senior staff? My memory is not as good as Chief Justice Roberts'."—Mocking Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' botched effort to swear in Barack Obama as Biden was set to swear in White House senior staff one day after the Inauguration snafu (the president did not look pleased), Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaWLlN295JI
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"I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. … When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway."—Dispensing handy tips to protect against the swine flu in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, April 30, 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_193473.html
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"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number? I should have it in front of me and I don't."—Failing to remember name of the Web site Recovery.gov in an interview with CBS's Maggie Rodriguez to promote the Web site Recovery.gov, Feb. 25, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJnJKE8kkmM
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"Barack Obama ain't taking my shotguns, so don't buy that malarkey. … I've got two, if he tries to fool with my Beretta, he's got a problem."—Issuing a warning at a campaign event, Castlewood, Va., Sept. 20, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNjmcU3Ab5c
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"Israel can determine for itself as a sovereign nation what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran or anyone else, whether we agree or not. … If the Netanyahu government decides to take a course of action different than the one being pursued now, that is their sovereign right to do that. That is not our choice."—Appearing to give Israel the green light to bomb Iran in interview with This Week, July 5, 2009
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...king_iran.html
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"They have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years. They're in a situation where the world is changing before them and they're clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable."—Forgetting about the reset button with Russia in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2009
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"All you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's Restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me, where I spend a lot of time."—Referring to one of his favorite hangouts, along with a restaurant that had been closed for more than a decade, during the 2008 vice presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 2, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89FbC...channel#t=4154
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