My God.
For those Obamatons not in the know (a lot of you are just reaching voting age this year, and not counting children forced to sing praises to the Dear Leader), here are the facts:
- Stock Market Crash of 1929
- President in 1929: Herbert Hoover
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: President from 1933 until his death in office in 1945
So according to Biden, a guy who was dead by the time a meaningful number of people had televisions in their homes, who at one point became a U.S. President, got on the television to talk to the nation as the President about a current event that was happening when someone else was actually the President, which happened more than 20 years before most people had probably even heard of televisions, and before the dead guy himself was ever President. Awesome.
HT: A Disgruntled Republican
2 comments:
Biden may have been anachronistic about the technology and conflated events a bit, but the essential point seems sound, in that FDR is famed for his fireside chats in which he spoke about the depression to the public more intimately and forthrightly than had been known in presidential politics, but on the radio, unless I've confused something.
Biden has his blustery gaffes, but he has probably forgotten more about American history and politics than Palin has ever known. Though, I understand that one can believe that Palin is still the superior choice because she is more ideologically sound.
Biden may have conflated events a bit? That's rather charitable.
And yes, FDR got on the radio.
Anyway, the criticism here isn't really aimed at Biden, but at Obama supporters who seize on Palin's every slip as proof of her unsuitability for office, and the media which simultaneously makes Palin mole hills into mountains while sweeping Obama/Biden mountains under the rug.
Much of what Palin has been criticized over, such as that whole "Bush Doctrine" flap, is that the "facts" in those instances have been matters of opinion, whereas stuff like what Biden showed here is ignorance of hard facts - historical events. It's a huge difference and a huge - and obvious - double standard.
And yes, the point that many Palin opponents don't understand is that for many (and probably most) of her supporters it is the principles she espouses that have our attention and interest. The offering on the other side of the aisle is a polar opposite as far as many are concerned, myself included, and this opposite is 100% unacceptable.
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