Gaffe-O-Matic Joe

Here is a list of pratically every gaffe Joe Biden has made (since he was picked to be Obama's running mate, that is).

1. August 23rd
“A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!”

2. September 3rd
At a campaign stop in Fort Myers, Fla., Biden referred to the future "Biden Administration," which he quickly corrected to an "Obama-Biden Administration.”

Believe me, that wasn't a Freudian slip," Biden said. "Oh Lordy day, I tell ya.”

3. September 9th
"Stand up Chuck let me see you," Biden said to State Senator Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair. "Oh, God love you, what I am talking about. You're making everybody else stand up though, aren't you pal?”

4. September 10th
“Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let's get that straight.

She's a truly close personal friend; she is qualified to be president of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me, but she is first-rate.”

5. September 17th
At a campaign stop in Maumee, Ohio, Biden told an environmentalist that their campaign doesn't support clean coal. "We're not supporting clean coal.”

But they do. Obama said his administration will "enter into public private partnerships to develop five 'first-of-a-kind' commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology.”

6. September 21st
“I guarantee you, Barack Obama ain't taking my shotguns, so don’t buy that malarkey. They're going to start peddling that to you. I got two, if he tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem. I like that little over and under, you know? I'm not bad with it. So give me a break. Give me a break.”

Isn't it illegal to make a threat against a presidential nominee? Better call the Secret Service. Also, tell Barack that he should watch his back if elected

7. September 21st
Biden told the miners he is one of them. "Hope you won't hold it against me, but I am a hard coal miner — anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania, that's where I was born and raised."

Biden was born in Scranton, moved to Delaware at age 10 and has never had experience in the mines. His father worked in the oil business and ran a Delaware car dealership.

8. September 22nd
"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."

Herbert Hoover was president in October 1929 when the stock market crashed. FDR wasn't elected until 1932, and television made its debut a decade later, in 1939

9. September 22nd
When asked by CBS how he felt about an Obama campaign ad that made fun of John McCain's inability to use a computer, Biden replied that he thought it was "terrible”.

“I didn't know we did it," he said, adding that he wouldn't have approved the ad, but defended Obama's decision to approve it. "The answer is I don't think anything was intentional about that. They were trying to make another point."

10. September 29th
“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where (Usama) bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are."

Senator John Kerry, however, set the record straight, telling the Associated Press that the helicopter was "forced down" by a snowstorm

11. September 29th
“The Yeshiva crew team sent a spy to Cambridge to find out why the Harvard rowers always beat them. The informant called his coach from alongside the river. He said, 'They've got eight guys rowing and only one yelling!'”

Isn't that a little anti-semitic?

12. October 2nd
(Vice Presidential Debate)
“We've spent less in Afghanistan in seven years than we spend in a month in Iraq."

According to the Congressional Research Service, spending on the war in Afghanistan since 2001 has been $172 Billion. Spending in Iraq is, as the Democrats repeatedly mention, a little under $10 Billion a month…Biden's number is off by 2000%

13. October 2nd
(Vice Presidential Debate, again)
“Vice President Cheney’s been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history. He has the idea he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that’s the executive — he works in the executive branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.”

Article 1 of the Constitution defines the role of the legislative branch, not the executive branch.

14. October 2nd
(Vice Presidential Debate, once again)
When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said, and Barack said, ‘Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.”

Reuters news believes he meant to refer to Syria, but I still don't think it would be accurate to say the U.S. kicked Syria out of Lebanon. The Lebanese kicked Syria out of Lebanon.

15. October 2nd
(Vice Presidential Debate, yes again)
“With regard to arms control and weapons, nuclear weapons require a nuclear arms control regime. John McCain voted against a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty that every Republican has supported."

When the roll was finally called on October 13, the resolution to ratify the CTBT (including the six safeguards that Daschle had submitted as an amendment) was defeated by a 51-48 vote with one abstention...do the math.

16. October 2nd
(Vice Presidential Debate, okay this is becoming redundant)
"Pakistan already has nuclear weapons. Pakistan already has deployed nuclear weapons. Pakistan's weapons can already hit Israel and the Mediterranean."

The distance between Israel and Pakistan is 2,085 miles, or 3355 kilometers and the longest range missile the Pakistani’s posses has a range of 3000 kilometers.

17. October 15th
“Look, John's [McCain] last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word; jobs. J-O-B-S."
18. October 19th
“It will not be six months [after the inauguration] before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy…And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”