Some of the guys Chuck and I have campaigned for are turkeys
This just in - hot off the presses from the LA Times! Biden was introducing several Democratic House candidates at a fundraiser in McLean, Virginia, and had a few words to say about them:
These guys are smart. Some of the guys Chuck (Robb) and I have campaigned for are turkeys. Not all Democrats are created equal, while most Republicans are.
It's been a long time since Biden has said something we can agree with. But yes, it's true, many of the Democrats for which he has compaigned are indeed turkeys.
I have let imagination take hold in some places
An alert reader wrote in with the latest Bidenism. While speaking at the Brookings Institute (transcript) on Sep 3 2009, Biden was asked about stimulus spending and how to ensure it was spent wisely. He rambled on for quite a while and then said:
And I have not bent the law, but I have let imagination take hold in some places where I think it's consistent with the spirit of the law.
Maybe it'd be better just to obey the law, sir? He then followed up with this:
Is that the best way of saying that? Yes.
I think he meant "No". I hope!
We've spent less in Afghanistan in seven years than we spend in a month in Iraq
Phil Walter pointed me to another Bidenism from the 2008 VP debate. Here's the quote from the transcript:
Look, we have spent more money -- we spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country.
The problem with this (thanks to Real Clear Politics for the numbers-gathering), is that it's way, way off. Specifically, we spend about $10B a month in Iraq, and (when he said this) the U.S. had spent a total of around $172B on Afghanistan. So he was off by an order of magnitude. Close enough for government work?
