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Article: Biden the bumbler.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2008
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Byline: Jeffrey Kuhner, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Sen. Joe Biden is proving to be a disastrous pick - threatening to bring down the Democratic ticket. The vice presidential candidate said this week that national leaders should follow the example of President Franklin Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis.
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,'" Mr. Biden told CBS Evening News.
But Herbert Hoover, not Roosevelt, was president when the stock market crashed in 1929 - a fact commonly known to many high-school ...