Yeah, and Ben and Aretha Franklin were related

Nov 21, 2008 at 3:00 PM
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When the stock-market crashed in 1929, ‘Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television’. Who said this?

George W. Bush
Sarah Palin
John McCain
Joe Biden

   Even a foreigner like me knows that Herbert Hoover was the president of the United States in 1929 and I don’t believe there was TV.
   Guess every late-night comedian, news media outlet, Saturday Night Live, and even most Republicans missed another one of Joe Biden’s gifts to comedy.
   Probably due to too much Palin-bashin’.
   I make it no secret that I think then-Sen. Obama could have found a better running mate, but what’s done is done.

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I would have picked Bill Richardson if I were him- but most Democrats are wrong on just about everything.

Of course Biden said it. lol

He's gonna keep us entertained with his comments.

Jack Yan replied to Humbled Infidel’s comment:
Nov 21, 2008
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It’s a pity this wasn’t better known. It could have been Biden’s potatoe moment.

Zak Klemmer replied to Jack Yan’s comment:
Nov 21, 2008
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You guys spell color as colour and labor as labour. ;) LOL but as I recall a teacher gave Dan Quayle the flash card with the misspelled word. And BTW Quayle passed the Indiana State Bar Exam on the first try. J F K Jr and Richard Daily passed on the third try.

Jack Yan replied to Zak Klemmer’s comment:
Nov 21, 2008
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When I analyse this, I hope you won’t harbour any ill will: I don’t want to make a wrong manœuvre.

Zak Klemmer replied to Jack Yan’s comment:
Nov 21, 2008
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ROFLOL Jack! The wife of a friend and former colleague spent one year in a teacher exchange program in Australia. An Aussi teacher accused her of corrupting the kids because she spelled color with out the "u". She pointed out that their dictionary listed both spellings as correct.

Jack Yan replied to Zak Klemmer’s comment:
Nov 21, 2008
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From what I understand (though I hope an Australian will correct me if I am wrong) “Australian spelling” had not been standardized even as late as the end of the nineteenth century. Hence, while normal Australian usage would say labour is correct, the political party should be spelt Labor. There were also many American–Australians there.

I'm surprised JFK, Jr. took the Indiana State Bar Exam. I thought he took the New York exam.

I would suppose that JFK Jr took the NY exam and Daily took the Illinois exam.

Then perhaps we really can't compare them. States have different bar exams, and I understand the NY exam is one of toughest. The media was unfair to Quayle in that instance, but I doubt that we can jump from there to how his intelligence compares to JFK, Jr.'s or Richard Daly's.

Yeah, and Ben and Aretha Franklin were related

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