How did Obama get into Pakistan in 1981. Do the research on the history of traveling to that country as a US citizen, major/minor.
White-trash escapade? You're losing us. The Couric interview isn't some kind of tawdry Jerry Springer episode, where she came on camera to talk about her cheating husband sleeping with her sister.
You're right, she's awesome and clearly well prepared to be interviewed, and has lots of really insightful things to say. I'm not saying Obama/Biden is the answer to all that ails this country, but if you can sit and watch that Palin interview and not be at least a little concerned about her overall fitness to assume the role of president, should the unthinkable happen and McCain die in office, then I don't even know what to think.
Oh please, pretty late to claim the high road when you threw out the Major/minor comment, but yeah I admit that my retort was pretty lame. I'm happy to stick to the issues.
I have honestly never seen Obama questioned that thoroughly in this campaign. If you have an interview with something other than softballs, please post it.
LOL! Biden is pretty famous for having diarrhea of the mouth, and flubbing stuff up. If he really did think FDR was on TV back in '29 then, yeah I question his mental faculties too.
I'll have to search for it, but he was interviewd by Chris Wallace from Fox News a short while ago, and as I recall it wasn't a puff piece where he sucked him off. Stay tuned. Here's the transcript at least: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352785,00.html
I think it's more forgivable to make mistakes on historical events that were almost 80 years ago (although truth be told, it's a little sad that he said FDR when it was Hoover, and mentioned TV). TV was around in 29, although it was incredibly rare. My guess is that maybe Biden was talking about something (maybe) FDR did as Governor of NY. I don't know. I would have hoped they wouldn't make a mistake like that though (but at the same time, I would hope someone would know that Czechoslovakia is not a country anymore). Something a little more pertinent to the modern day issues at hand, you know.
Sorry, didn't mean to offend. Because of the way you linked two seemingly unrelated facts (going to Pakistan and transferring to Columbia) together, I presumed that someone out there has been making a case that there is some connection between the two. I hadn't heard anything about it, and was hoping for a juicy conspiracy theory or something. Apparently there isn't one. Maybe we should make one up SR
Televsion wasn't available to US consumers until 1954. FDR was dead at that point for nearly 10 years. That said, a non-issue other than to show what a doofus Joe Biden is, but if we are piling on Palin for a hardball interview, let's compare Biden's gaffe in a softball interview.
As a historian, I definitely think that Biden's FDR/1929/TV comment was pretty idiotic, in about three different ways at once. If it had occurred on an issue of more substance to the current campaign, I'd rate it as a major gaffe. Considering it was just a botched historical analogy, I'm not sure it was too significant. But I definitely had a laugh at Joe's expense. SR
