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Biden garbles Depression history

Joe 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?'" 

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Phred said:

Jesus wept.

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Barack Obama pledges on his website that his administration will:

    Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology.
    Obama’s Department of Energy will enter into public private partnerships to develop five “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology

But in Ohio, Biden was asked by a voter: "Wind and solar are flourishing here in Ohio, so why are you supporting clean coal?"

Biden replied: "We're not supporting 'clean coal.' Guess what. China's building two every week. Two dirty coal plants. And it's polluting the United States. It's causing people to die. ... China is burning three hundred years of bad coal unless we figure out how to clean their coal up. Because it's going to ruin your lungs and there's nothing we can do about it. No coal plants here in America. Build them, if they're going to build them over there make 'em clean because they're killing you."

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Luddite said:

Its ironic with all the dope addicts bashing Sarah Palin that the Democrats have the most anti-drug candidate who could become president.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/8817903/an/0/page/0

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pinkfloydms said:

Do you ever make a post that has anything to do with the topic at hand?

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Ferris said:

I just don't get how anyone can say that Palin is better than Biden, as a politician.  That would have to be one convoluted argument.

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lets see how you feel after the Biden/Palin Debate.

Ferris said:

They'll keep Palin to the script.  If she strays, she's screwed.

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pinkfloydms said:

Of course I expect the MSM to say Palin won the debate, because they hold her to such low standards/expectations on foreign policy. All she has to do is skirt around the answers (like every other politician) and not answer something totally wrong and she wins.
Biden on the other hand will be held to a high standard since he has been a politician for so long.

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