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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: TheSarge on September 23, 2008, 08:13:59 PM
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WASHINGTON — Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today’s 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,â€â€˜ Barack Obama’s running mate recently told the “CBS Evening News.â€
Except, 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.
FDR was elected three years later when voters denied Hoover a second term. The Democratic challenger appealed to the “forgotten man†by promising a “new deal†to solve the Depression era.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/23/biden-slips-suggests-fdr-was-president-when-market-crashed/
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oops. A retraction will be issued tomorrow....Obama campaign writing as we speak... :lmao:
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You'd think he'd know better. Biden was there after all. :fuelfire:
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Except, 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.
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BIDEN!!!!
Kind of puts the whole "potatoe" incident to shame, doesn't it?