Vice President Joe Biden’s latest gaffe was saying we’re living “in the 20th century”
instead of the 21st.
It was during a speech he gave in Blacksburg,
Va., where he said “Once, again, General
Motors [is] the largest automobile maker in the world. Folks, where’s it
written we cannot lead the world in the 20th century in making automobiles?
I’ve not seen it written anywhere.”
December 2010: During the swearing in of a Republican Senator Mark Kirk in Congress, Biden told the Capitol Hill newcomer to put that hand on the Bible and raise his left. According to the congressional rulebook, it should have been the other way round.
March 2010: He dropped the F-bomb during the signing of the administration’s historic health reforms, apparently unaware that the microphones would catch him out when he whispered into the president’s ear immediately before the announcement, declaring: ‘This is a big f****** deal!’
March 2010: Mr. Biden said ‘God rest her soul’ in reference to the mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen. Mr. Cowen’s mother is alive; his father had died. Realizing his misstep, he corrected with: ‘God bless her soul.’
October 2008: Speaking in Athens, Ohio, about John McCain’s economic strategy, he 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.’
September 2008: During a political rally in Missouri, he urged wheelchair-bound state senator Chuck Graham to rise and be recognized, saying: ‘Stand up, Chuck, let ‘em see ya.’ Realizing his mistake, he said: ‘Oh, God love you … what am I talking about?’
September 2008: After he was named the vice presidential nominee, he addressed a crowd in Nashua, New Hampshire, questioning how he beat out Hillary Clinton: ‘Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America,’ he said in New Hampshire. ‘Quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me.’
August 2008: He also mixed up Barack Obama’s name at his first campaign rally with the president, introducing him as: ‘A man I’m proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States – Barack America!’
Here’s a video of his greatest hits.
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