It would be electoral malpractice for the McCain campaign and its supporters to let Joe Biden's remarkable demonstration of cluelessness go unremarked. The man supposed to bring experience to the Democrat ticket has an uncertain grasp of history and reality. Speaking to Katie Couric on September 23, in reference to the current turmoil on wall Street, Joe Biden said : "Part of what a leader does is to instill confidence, to demonstrate that he or she knows what they're (sic) talking about .... stock market crash, Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about, you know, the princes of greed, he said, "Look, here's what happened..."The Biden bloviation contains at least two howlers: The 1929 stock market crash occurred in 1929, when Roosevelt was more than three years away from the Presidency. So "President" Roosevelt never talked to the American people about the 1929 stock market crash as President, via any medium of...(Read Full Post)