Keep your fingers crossed that Biden will be the Democrat squaring off with Trump in the 2020 election. It would not only ensure an easy victory for the President, it would provide for some amazing entertainment not only from their debates, but the continued facepalms we’d continuously see on the Left.
Let’s continue with Biden’s greatest gaffes.
‘Barack America’
At an Illinois campaign rally in 2008, Biden said: “This election year, the choice is clear. One man stands to deliver change we desperately need. A man I’m proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next president of the United States—Barack America!”
Indian accents
In 2006, Biden commented on the growing population of Indian Americans in Delaware.
“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking,” he told a voter.
A gift for the GOP
Biden said during a 2008 fundraiser with Democratic donors that within six months of becoming president, Obama would face “an international crisis to test the mettle of this guy.”
The comment was seized on by Republican John McCain’s campaign, which turned it into an attack ad.
Franklin Delano Hoover
In an interview with CBS Evening News, Biden criticized the George W. Bush administration’s handling of the 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,” Biden said.
But as FactCheck pointed out, Herbert Hoover was president during the 1929 Wall Street Crash and television didn’t exist.
Big deal
After Obama signed into law his health care reforms in 2010, Biden was caught by a mic at a news conference telling the president that it was a “big fucking deal.”
…and a 70 percent chance we’re right
At a meeting with House Democrats in 2009, with the party facing criticism over the $787 billion economic stimulus package, Biden suggested the White House might be handling the financial crisis “wrong.”
“Every once in a while, a generation of leaders gets a set of problems that are configured in a way that there’s no historical precedent to look back on—other than our grit, other than some courage and determination—to know how to deal with it,” Biden said.
“The president and I were talking about something yesterday in the Oval Office which, with the press here I’ll not suggest what it was, but the response to the folks who were in the office was, if we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, we stand up there and we make really tough decisions, there’s still a 30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong.”
Dr. Biden
During the swine flu pandemic in 2009, the White House attempted to offer advice while calming public fears.
But Biden’s comments helped fuel the panic instead of easing it.
“I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now,” Biden told NBC News’s Today show. “It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, it’s you’re in a confined aircraft 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.”
Beautiful women
In 2009, Politico reported that Biden was overheard making this comment to the then Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko: “I cannot believe that a French man visiting Kiev went back home and told his colleagues he discovered something and didn’t say he discovered the most beautiful women in the world. That’s my observation.”
Smartass
When Biden stopped off at a frozen custard shop in Milwaukee back in 2010, the manager offered him a dessert for free if the veep cut taxes, Fox News reported.
Biden replied, “Why don’t you say something nice instead of being a smartass all the time?”
‘Put y’all back in chains’
On the 2012 campaign trail, when talking about Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s plans for Wall Street, Biden told an audience that included many African Americans, “They’re going to put y’all back in chains.”
After criticism from the Romney campaign, Obama’s team called the complaints “faux outrage,” but also had to clarify that Biden’s comments were a reference to Republican remarks about unshackling the private sector and his own about unshackling the middle class, CBS News reported.
Obama’s big stick
In a 2012 speech on foreign policy, Biden praised President Obama’s approach to diplomacy.
“Now is the time to heed the timeless advice from Teddy Roosevelt: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’ End of quote,” Biden said. “I promise you, the president has a big stick.”
As the audience laughed, Biden repeated: “I promise you.”
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Blindsided his boss
On NBC’s Meet The Press in 2012, Biden wrong-footed the White House by saying he supported gay marriage, pre-empting months of work behind the scenes in the Obama administration assessing the political risks of endorsing same-sex marriage.
Politico reported that Biden’s interview created chaos in the White House. It pushed President Barack Obama to make a call on gay marriage sooner than he had wanted.
Grandpa Finnegan
At another reception for an Irish Prime Minister, this time Enda Kenny in 2012, Biden said, “You know there’s an old Irish saying, there’s all kinds of old Irish sayings.
“My grandfather Finnegan, I think he made them up. But uh, it says, may the hinges of our friendship never go rusty.
“Well, with these two folks that you’re about to meet if you haven’t already, there’s no doubt about them staying oiled and lubricated here, ladies and gentlemen.”
As the audience laughed, Biden said: “Now for you who are not full Irish in this room, lubricated has a different meaning for us all.”
2020 vision
Biden accidentally gave us a glimpse into the future by putting himself in the 2020 running at a Delaware fundraising dinner. “I have the most progressive record of anybody running for the United St—of anybody who would run,” Biden said, quickly correcting himself as the crowd cheered. “I didn’t mean…” he added, trailing off and crossing himself. He is yet to announce formally his intentions for 2020.
Source: Newsweek
