QOTD: This Is What They Mean By "Plainspoken"
Say what you will about him, but for every 10 minor-league gaffes, there's at least one instance in which Joe Biden manages to get a point across with pretty much unmatchable succinctness and clarity. Here he is making the case for increased federal transportation funding:
"This is how the interstate highway system started folks. It wasn't like the Lord on the eighth day said, boom, there's the interstate highway system."Indeed it wasn't. Preach it, Joe!
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If you voted for the human gaffe machine called Joe Biden I suppose it's tempting to pretend that anything he doesn't mangle is golden.
Ron Posted Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:47 AMDan Qualye was a rocket scientist compared to this dimwit
dan m ketter Posted Friday, June 5, 2009 8:47 AMIf Biden is a human gaffe machine, that would make B*sh a communication mangler at best.
iggy Posted Friday, June 5, 2009 9:30 AMDidn't Biden's 1988 Presidenial campaign get derailed for his plagiarism in law school and in some of his speeches?
Lane Narrows Posted Monday, June 8, 2009 7:02 AM