A gaffe of this size by any other vp in waiting....

So I hear Joe Biden say to Katie Couric "Part of what a leader does is instill confidence that he or she knows what they're talking about, that if they listen to me we can fix this....when the stock market crashed Franklin Roosevelt got onto television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed..." Of course Roosevelt wasn't the President (it was Hoover, by the way) and there wasn't TV. Did you hear about this? Can you imagine if this were Sarah Palin making these comments to Couric? There'd be SNL skits, a cover on US, TIME, Newsweek magazines, 15 headlines on the NY Times alone not to mention ABC, CBS, and NBC. Letterman would have no guests, just an hour long monologue about what you DON'T need to know to be a small town mayor and what exactly DO they learn at the University of Idaho anyway, and Bill Maher would drop dead from a heart attack from the excitement alone. But because it's good ole boy Joe, it's just fatigue, or a gaffe, or bad soda, or ... or...something...

It just makes me ill the double standard. At least be fair. Let's have some NY Times headlines about Biden's leadership qualities, his missteps. Let's have Darryl Hammond do his best Biden on the train while he misquotes Lincoln, or better yet, have Hammond pretend to plagiarize him in a speech on the Senate floor. Oh wait, I think Biden may have already done that. Or does he only plagiarize the British? I forget. I can't seem to find any recent articles on that. No NY Times headlines on Bidens tendancy to plagerize other peoples speeches or essays. Maybe Hammond can imitate Joe doing Nixon as President during WW2? Or how about Regan during Prohibition? What University did you go to Joe? How many States were YOU Governor of Joe? How many National Guards were you Commander of Joe? Do you really want this a-hole one heartbeat away from the Presidency?