Okay, it is not as big a deal as implying you're a foreign policy expert because you can look out of a window and see Russia. Nor is it on par of saying that you're an expert on Russia because Putin rears his head while flying into U.S. airspace over Alaska, but Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden's big mouth as of late is making him look, well... Palin-esque.
Take for example last week when he said leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response to a financial crisis.
“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,”‘ Biden told CBS News.
Cool, except Roosevelt wasn't the president during the Great Depression of the 1920s, and there was no such thing as television then.
Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn’t introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World’s Fair.
Earth to Biden...
What the hell were you thinking?
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