A look at a few Bidenisms and political blunders

The report at the link below has a list of 14 “amusing yet cringe-worthy” Bidenisms made during Joe Biden’s more recent political career. Listed below are a few of the most notable:

1. During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS “Early Show,” Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's “number.”

“You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?” he asked an aide standing out of view. “I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed.”

2. On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart."

It was Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- who swore Biden in as vice president.

3. When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."

4. In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.

"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," he said.

In reality it was Herbert Hoover -- not Roosevelt -- who was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented and not used by very many people until many years later!

5. During a Sept. 12, 2008, speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up."

6. Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the "lieutenant governor" of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4, 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia.

"I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate," Biden said.

7. Biden said he was running for president -- not vice president -- during a Sept. 1, 2008, roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa.

"Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what's happening down there," Biden said.

The main stream media headlined every gaffe made by Dan Quayle and repeated them many times, yet they brush by the Biden gaffes as if to say, “move along folks, nothing to see here.”

Wonder if Biden can spell potato?

More Biden gaffes can be found here.