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Subscribe to RSSVice President Joe Biden earned ridicule from foes Saturday when he twice referred to the Democratic Virginia Senate candidate by the wrong first name.
Biden began his remarks to an enthusiastic crowd of about 1,500 at the Lynchburg Armory by praising former Gov. Tim Kaine with the correct name but later declared two times that he is "a big Tom Kaine fan."
Kaine is running against Republican George Allen for the seat vacated by Democrat Sen. Jim Webb, who is retiring.
The vice president went on to offer similar compliments for ex-Rep. Tom Perriello, whose first name is Tom.
A Mitt Romney campaign spokesman immediately highlighted the error.
“Vice President Biden forgot the name of his own Virginia Democratic Senate nominee and he wants voters to forget about President Obama’s failed economic policies and lack of a real agenda for a second term," Ryan Williams wrote in a campaign statement.
In Lynchburg, Biden also accused Republicans of hoping for lapses of memory.
"They're counting on the American people to have an overwhelming case of amnesia on November the 6th," he said.
Obama campaign spokesperson Lis Smith also responded.
"Once again, Mitt Romney’s campaign is showing their focus on the big things — like one letter in Tim Kaine's name," Smith said. "If they put as much time and effort into their policies, maybe we'd finally have an answer for how they'd pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts weighted to the very wealthy."
Kaine, the victim of the flub, responded in a tongue-in-cheeck tweet later Saturday.
"Thanks to the VPOTUS for the shout out today. I love Jay Biden!" he joshed via Twitter.
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Its time to rif ourselves of the OBAMNOMA.This liberal cancer which has been sickening our country for four years. If this cancer is no gone the result will be terminal for the U.S. Restore America.. vote Romney Ryan.
Of course Biden cannot get the name right. He and obama have not been able to get their alibi straight for over a month.
the moron aka Biden had a bigger gaffe the other day when he claimed that Romney would give a 500 Trillion Dollar tax cut to 120,000 families
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest that he was referring to the top 1/10 of 1% of tax payers. There are approx 138,000 of such tax payers.
But their AGI income is only a combined 600 billion which over ten years would be 6 trillion. But that's income not taxes. they pay an average effective tax rate of 24% (since much of their income is from investments and corporate income). In 2009 the top 1/10 of 1% paid 148 billion in taxes. So a 20% tax cut would amount to 29.6 billion per year if NO tax reform was approved by Congress. That amounts to 296 billion over 10 years which is 4.7 trillion LESS than Biden and Obama are claiming
So it's impossible to get to 500 trillion like Joe the Moron claims, but it's also IMPOSSIBLE to get to 5 Trillion as the lying Obama and Dems claim.
Since the GNP of the entire planet is 80 trillion that is one hell of a tax cut.....
Jim
I'm glad to see someone else did their homework on Obama's mentor Frank Marshall Davis. Knowing that he was such an influence on Obama and his political views should scare the hell out of anyone! It seems like most of Obama's supporters don't want to see or hear anything negative about him. Do your homework! Look at his past! You should know who you are supporting. The more I find out about him, the more I believe he should not be in charge of the greatest country in the world!
Ahh, Joeseph Biden...
What a perfect fool to be front for an idiot.
The country suffers.
This is what you do when you're DESPERATE,you cling to anything.
Shari,
Cling to this
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"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program"—Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, June 2003.
"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter"—President Obama, August 2009.
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"Leadership means that the buck stops here. . . . I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit"—Sen. Barack Obama, March 2006.
"It is not acceptable for us not to raise the debt ceiling and to allow the U.S. government to default"—President Obama, July 2011.
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"I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages"—Obama questionnaire response, 1996, while running for Illinois state Senate.
"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage"—Sen. Obama, November 2008, while running for president.
"It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married"—President Obama, May 2012.
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"We have an idea for the trigger. . . . Sequestration"—Obama Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew in 2011, as reported in Bob Woodward's "The Price of Politics."
"First of all, the sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed"—President Obama, October 2012.
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"If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election"—Sen. Obama, 2007.
"We've made the decision not to participate in the public financing system for the general election"—Sen. Obama, June 2008.
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"I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign"—Sen. Obama, June 2008.
"The way Bush has done it over the last eight years is . . . [he] added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back. . . . That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic"—Sen. Obama, July 2008.
"I don't remember what the number was precisely. . . . We don't have to worry about it short term"—President Obama, September 2012, on the debt figure when he took office ($10 trillion) and whether to worry about today's $16 trillion figure.
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"[Sen. Hillary Clinton believes] that . . . if the government does not force taxpayers to buy health care, that we will penalize them in some fashion. I disagree with that"—Sen. Obama, Jan 2008, opposing the individual mandate for health insurance.
"I'm open to a system where every American bears responsibility for owning health insurance"—President Obama, June 2009, supporting the individual mandate.
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"Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times when America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive"—President Obama, April 2009, in France.
"We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms"—President Obama, April 2009, in Trinidad and Tobago.
"Nothing Governor Romney just said is true, starting with this notion of me apologizing"—Barack Obama, October 2012, on whether he went on a global apology tour.
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"The problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel"—Sen. Obama, September 2008.
"Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years"—President Obama, January 2010.
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"So if somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant, they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them"—Sen. Obama, January 2008, on his plans to financially penalize coal plants.
"Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution"—Sen. Obama, August 2008.
"Here's what I've done since I've been president. We have increased oil production to the highest levels in 16 years. Natural gas production is the highest it's been in decades. We have seen increases in coal production and coal employment"—President Obama, October 2012.
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"If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition"—President Obama, 2009.
"We've got a long way to go but . . . we've come too far to turn back now. . . . And that's why I'm running for a second term"—President Obama, October 2012.
@ Lis Smith,
It was rude and very disrespectful for the Vice President of The United States to forget the names of people he was speaking of. It might be a minor error to you, but I am sure the two men found it embarrASSing. Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
To you it was just one letter off...
Romney/Ryan 2012
Wow, I'm not sure now which is worse, Romney claiming Syria is Iran's pathway to the ocean or this. How can anyone get someone's name wrong when it's this important? OMG doesn't Romney have something else to-do besides bashing the elderly. Why doesn't he explain how he plans on creating 12 million jobs, although he tells us the President/government can not create jobs? Thank God this will be over soon, I'm sick of it! Someone needs to put Romney on the bus with the illegal's he wants to keep from voting and give him and his polygamy loving family a ride south! Yes, I said his whole family, why, because at one time the whole family moved south of the border to evade prosecution of Polygamy. It Seems Governor Romney's Grandfather said the hell with America and moved to Mexico. America wasn't good enough and according to Romney and where he keeps his money he too doesn't think America is good enough. How many of you are counting down the days left for the factory in Wisconsin owned by Bain Capital/Romney where 170+ workers will lose their jobs? Not only are they losing their jobs but their jobs are being shipped to China. How many of you feel you are as safe as these people did? How many of you think if you don't vote Republican your boss may find out and you could be fired? How many of you feel Congress has done everything it needs to when it comes to your well being?
Biden... Hey Barack, they are picking on me again just because I didn't know the senators name and I keep forgetting what state I am in. Its hard trying to remember all those 57 states. I didn't know this would be a big F-ing deal!
Obama... Uncle Joey, Just tell them what what you usually do," Bite me"
@BigBearcatBill#25: You saying we should all get drunk and then shoot somebody, preferably a Southerner? Hell, I'll go along with that. You furnish the Whiskey and guns too?
Was that I in Tim stand for Iowa?
Was the O in Tom stand for Ohio?
The. Mtt Rmney (I)Income is from (O)Offshore.
Does that I in Tim stand for Iowa?
Does that O in Tom stand for Ohio?
Then Mtt Rmney's (I)Income is from (O)Offshore
Sorry fat mouse induced dyslexia, similar to Romnesia, blind typing for the blind.
Right. Romney flat out lies about Chrysler sending jobs to China and closing down U.S. plants. Biden flubs a first name.
Really care to watch the video of GM head guy giving a wonderful speech to the Chicoms?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo
This election is a fantastic opportunity for all you teabagger crazies to put your money where your mouth is. Go to Intrade and bet on Romney if you believe your BS. You could nearly triple your money if you're right!
http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=743475
Biden is a "flub".
He squeezed by the vice-presidential debate by biting his tongue with that stupid grin and a few smirks.
All he is is the white sidekick for a president who is a failure.
Way to go Joe.
GOP puts old crazy racists like Sununu on their big interviews, sickening the USA GOPs are now back to the 1950s, even General/President Eisenhower would put most of them in front of a firing squad the way they act now...racism, ignorance, redneckism, bad genes just keep coming back from those conservative folks.
What a surprise, the Repukes desperately grasping for anything to deflect the attention from their own pathetic mess!!!!
What mess?
Allowing Obama to win?
Yeah, I guess conservatives are at fault there.
But, sometimes it take a bad move to make America pull it's collective head out of it's ass.
It was a fun experiment gone bad.
It's over now.
Sorry Mr. Biden, no amount of amnesia is going to make the American people forgot about the mess you and Obama have made.
We are now down to calling out people who say the wrong first name?
By the way Biden was more than man enough to take out Paul Ryan - and the GOP has been hiding Paul ever since in nice safe places - and Romney isn't even man enough to show up on Bill O'Reilly's show - let alone anything else.
Think about that - Romney is afraid to even go on Foxnews' #1 Program for an interview - this guy is a joke.
If he a Republican Candidate is afraid to sit down with Bill - how is he going to sit down with Putin, or China - let alone sign an order to take someone like bin Laden out?
And just a week ago, Romney accused the Democrats of engaging in petty attacks. I guess it's another case of the GOP saying, "do as I say, not as I do." If Romney gets into the White House, better get use to that kind of attitude.
Only 10 more days of this annoying X%#@&%. My prediction is that Obama will squeak in a electoral college win. Whether Obama wins or Romney wins, my life as the head of a middle class household will remain the same. The rich will continue to benefit and the poor will continue to be neglected. A Romney's win, if it happened, will be a hard pill to swallow because he will be a President for just the 53% whom he calls as the responsible Americans. Having climbed out of poverty and food stamps into respectable middle class I know both sides of the coin very well and Romney will never convince me that people who pay income taxes are more responsible than the rest of us. I can live with either outcome but it would be nice to have a more equitable and compassionate society for our children and grandchildren to grow up.
OMG....I am so sick of this Romney campaign.....they have been playing to the lowest common denominator this entire campaign. Your foe makes a verbal mistake, JUMP ALL OVER IT. And when they don't make a mistake, just take their words and twist them into meaning something else entirely.
That's been the entire Romney campaign. BLECH.....my god I cannot wait for this election to be over and we NEVER hear from this clown again.
So is the Obama Campaign taking the HIGH ROAD by calling Romney a MURDERER,a TAX CHEAT,a LIAR and a BULLSH!TTER?
I did not agree with the "murderer" commercial and the bull@#$$%@ comment is not a serious one as all of us callously use that "swear word " in our colloquial usage. No one has called Romney a Tax Cheat but his actions have implied that of himself to everyone.
Didn't you hear? Harry Reid said that Romney paid NO TAXES. Thus he is a Tax Cheat. I believe he said it on the Senate floor!! I forgot about Deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter's charge that Romney is a felon.
At the time, The Obama Campaign stated that Harry Reid speaks for himself. I'm still waiting for Romney to say the same of Mourdock after Romney supported him. Now, Romney keeps ducking any questions on whether he agrees with Mourdock's views on rape.
slodan....i got news for you....Romney IS a bull@!$%#ter.
ONE of Obamamamama's biggest assets leading to his failure is Biden. Every lost ship needs an anchor,,,,,,Biden is an EXTRA anchor in Obamamama's ship of fools. Everytime this clown opens his mouth he embarasses himself and everyone tied to him. Hope Obamamama keeps him for another 10 DAYS!!!!!
Says the kings and queens of "shiny object" politics.
Biden is a complete idiot. If it were not so wrong to say in public anymore, the term retarded would fit him well.
This is an insult to idiots everywhere.
I wish there was an amnesia pill powerful enough to make me forget the past 3.5 years.