Joe Biden taking a shot at Bush:
And last night, in an interview with “CBS Evening News,” Biden misspoke when he told anchor Katie Couric that today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow former President Franklin D. Roosevelt'sresponse to a previous national financial crisis.
Declared Biden: “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.'”
What's wrong with that, some might ask?
Well, for starters Republican Herbert Hoover was president when the stock market crashed in October 1929. Second, Roosevelt didn't take office until four years later. And, not to be picky, but there were also no televisions in use at the time. Radio was Roosevelt's favored medium.
Joe Biden's history lesson off by 4 years and 1 president but otherwise pretty accurate | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times
"A lesson from the history books", we know Biden is flip with the facts. Being in the general area of the facts is 'close enough for government work' as they say.
