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Wed Sep-24-08 01:39 AM
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5. I don't consider that gaffe
He did lead during the great depression and he probaly even got on TV(where they around in 1930)
Stock market crash != Great Depression, dumbass. Biden wasn't talking about the Great Depression. And television wasn't introduced until 1939.
bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Wed Sep-24-08 01:40 AM
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6. Biden has already proven he is not a dummy
And honestly, the guy makes so many gaffes that nobody really cares, unless it is a really major screw up, which this is not.
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AchtungToddler Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Wed Sep-24-08 01:46 AM
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7. I suspect he was thinking of FDR's famous "fireside chats" on the radiop
Yeah, he started those WAAAAY before he was president.
SurferBoy (263 posts)
Wed Sep-24-08 01:46 AM
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8. I really don't see how it's a gaffe.
Edited on Wed Sep-24-08 01:48 AM by SurferBoy
Yes, the Stock Market officially crashed in 1929 and Hoover was POTUS.
However, there was still a huge massive bear market in 1932 and the market had reached one of it's lowest points in history in July 1932, with the Dow being just 41 points. That's right, 41 points.
It wasn't until FDR took office in January 1933 and helped pass the Glass-Steagall Act that the market began to slowly recover.
So, therefore, FDR led when he took office.
And this explains the gaffe... how?
sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Wed Sep-24-08 01:51 AM
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9. It crashed in 1937 too
That's probbly the crash he was referring to because I just can't see Biden making that kind of mistake.
Again, television wasn't around until 1939. Why would FDR address something that happened 2 years before, particularly as if it had just happened as Biden was saying?
jbnow Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Wed Sep-24-08 02:16 AM
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11. "Gaffes" that are about history aren't as troubling
as those about here and now.
Well it could be if it was big and well known facts that they were wildly off about.
If he said Roosevelt was a German general who rode space ships that would be bad.
But saying TV and not radio and relating him to the time of the stock market crash instead of the depression that followed...not such a big deal. He wasn't there and he isn't running for history teacher.
(The TV part is funny though)
lol! Well, if you compare it to something so completely ludicrous, well, I guess it wasn't so bad after all.
Tiggeroshii (1000+ posts)
Wed Sep-24-08 03:14 AM
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13. In 1929, didn't the stock market only fall about 18 points?
From what I understand it didn't hit bottom until after FDR was president, right?
Yeah, just make shit up about history, just like Biden. It went from 381 to somewhere around 200 (I can only find really hard to read graphs right now). 18 points? Dumbass.
CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Wed Sep-24-08 03:40 AM
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14. confusing a tv with radio in the 1930's is better than not knowing where Pakistan is in 2008
Oh, that's what he did? He was just confused between radio and TV? What else is he confused about?
