The gaffe machine is at it again. Joe Biden directly contradicts Obama’s stance on coal.
Obama’s stance on the subject?
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.
Yesterday he went against Team Obama when he called his running mates ad against McCain “terrible”
And then who can forget his “Obama better not touch my guns” statement.
The guy is the gift that keeps on giving.
UPDATE
Politico reports on the Obama campaign’s reaction to the latest gaffe from Biden:
The Democrats are responding by essentially reiterating Obama’s stance on the issue, implying that this was merely a matter of Biden speaking out of school.
UPDATE
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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The latest from smokin’ Joe:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4470093n
“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.””
Ya know, when I heard this yesterday, then read about Bill Clinton’s appearance on The View, saying Hillary never really wanted to be Obama’s veep, but would do it out of “duty”, I had to wonder if Biden was setting himself up to be booted and there was some truth to the rumor.
But I’m still holding firm on no Hillary October surprise. I don’t think Obama will switch gears for the risk it shows his bad judgment. But if Biden willingly steps down, BHO will be searching for another team mate.
Hillary? Considering she wasn’t formally vetted (but then, the press has been vetting the Clintons for over a decade…), this would put all the cards stacked in Hillary’s favor. A power sharing that Obama wouldn’t like, and make him appear the beggar.
But it’s certainly something to watch. Nothing will surprise me much this season. However I’ll bet BHO’s having some veep remorse now….
I can not see Hillary joining the sinking ship that is the Obama campaign. She will not join up with the loosing side, it would tarnish her 2012 campaign. They would have to be far behind in the polls for Biden to step aside. And I do not see that, this will be close up until the elections in Nov.
I highly doubt that Obama will change his VP now, but if he does, everyone will already know it is for political purposes and not Biden’s health. The viral email has been going around for weeks about Biden stepping down on Oct. 5. And that would make Obama look that much more like a loser, hell everyone knew Biden was the VP candidate before Obama sentout that email to his loyal supporters at 3 a.m.
But it definitely looks like Biden and Clinton arenot on Obama’s side. Hell, they seem to be rootingfor McCain. And the gaffemeister is doing a bang-up job of trying to out gaffe Obama.
you wonder how biden has gotten through this many years without someone kicking his a$$. he loves to stick his foot in his mouth. wonder what kind of phone calls obama has been giving him and how many times he has told him to just shut up and folloew the script.