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Biden — The Election Wouldn't Be the Same without Him [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

This one, just for a chuckle, from Ben Smith:

Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.

He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"

As Reason's Jesse Walker footnotes it: "And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, 'Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?'"

09/23 12:12 PM

This Ought to Help Obama in Appalachia [Jim Manzi]

In a great Kinsley Gaffe, Joe Biden seems to tell a supporter pretty clearly that he wants "no coal plants in America."He stumbles into the reality here that the goals of energy independence and reduced carbon emissions will be very difficult to reconcile because of one word: coal.

By the way, is his body language with this young woman kind of creepy only to me?

09/23 11:59 AM

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