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In an effort to support the launch of PonderPost, I wrote an article that I would usually publish on Ponderstorm so I wanted to tell Ponderstorm readers about it. Entitled The Obama & Biden Gaffe Machine, this post discusses a top ten list of gaffes committed by our President and Vice President as compiled by a British journalist at the Telegraph. Special emphasis is placed on Obama’s recent gifting fiasco with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Obama’s Special Olympics joke last night on the Jay Leno show that offended many. There are two embedded videos.

Posted under Barack Obama

A friend of mine runs Obama2.com and posted this humorous comparison video produced by Our Country Deserves Better PAC. The video highlights Senator Barack Obama’s thin resume (including some classic verbal gaffes and stumbles) compared to that of Governor Sarah Palin.

It seems that Team Obama is aware that comparisons with Senator John McCain make their candidate look like an empty suit. Perhaps that’s why they’ve targeted Sarah Palin as the less experienced member of the Republican ticket in an effort to bolster the credentials of their candidate. See for yourself.

Posted under Barack Obama, Campaign, John McCain, Video

Senator Joe Biden has been overshadowed by Governor Sarah Palin of late. Maybe he’s looking for something, anything, to get himself back in the news. I don’t think his latest comments were the kind of news he wanted, though.

Watch the following statement Biden made to CBS Evening News’ Katie Couric and see if you notice anything wrong with them. Hint: the stock market crash he was referring to occurred in October 1929.

In case you missed the gaffes, here’s a transcript of Biden’s statements in this video:

Part of what being a leader does is to instill confidence, is demonstrate that he or she knows what they’re talking about and to communicates to people. If you listed to me and follow what I’m suggesting we can fix this. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, “Look, here’s what happened.”

So Biden’s instilling confidence, right? Let’s go back in history. Who was President in 1929? If you answered Herbert Hoover you would be correct (FDR wasn’t elected until 1932).

Now about FDR getting on television . . . let’s research that. Philo Farnsworth made the world’s first working television system. He first demonstrated it to news media on September 1, 1928 and later to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on August 25, 1934. Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t 1934 come after 1929?

But I guess we can say that’s leadership Biden-style. Stay tuned for the next episode of the Biden Gaffe Machine, which, thanks to the marvel of television, will be coming to a screen near you. I wonder what he’ll say next?

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