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Originally Posted by jamber97
gaffe also gaff (gf)
n.
1. A clumsy social error; a faux pas: "The excursion had in his eyes been a monstrous gaffe, a breach of sensibility and good taste" Mary McCarthy.
2. A blatant mistake or misjudgment.
Biden is a artful master of the gaffe. A gaffe machine I might say. He knows this and still speaks with out thinking it thru. I'm starting to think he knows something that we don't. That its all some kind of mind game he's playing. He can't possibly be as goofy as he's coming across, he has to know that everything coming out of their mouths is being fact checked.
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Long after he left this earth, scholars discovered that as president, Dwight Eisenhower deliberately cultivated the widely-held impression that he was a bumbling goof ball. Now, as more of his personal and presidential papers become available, it is turning out that President Reagan was a much more thoughtful person than even his admirers realized at the time.
I don't know if such will prove the case with Senator Biden. I've been watching Senator Biden off and on since the Iran-
contra hearings. My two cents are that he knows he's a fairly intelligent guy but he's not as smart as he thinks and he doesn't quite realize that not everyone enjoys the sound of his voice as much as he does.
I also think he's a hold-over from a time when political discourse wasn't the "gotcha" game that it would become during the presidency of Bush the Elder and the confirmation hearings for Robert Bork, John Tower, and Clarence Thomas.
In the good old days, a member of the legislative branch could be more comfortable with rules allowing for one to correct one's statements for the record after the fact and to submit into record written statements as if they were read aloud before a committee. Also, members of Congress would lambaste each other during the day but leave the theatrics at the door during the evening when they'd treat each other as the respected friends they were. (This insight is from Tip O'Neal's memoirs.)
Some may remember the briefings President Bush gave during DESERT STORM. He would riff, ruminate, think aloud, and then just catch himself before divulging what Prime Minister Thatcher had told him moments ago on the phone. In today's environment, such candor would have the chattering classes talking about everything but what the president had actually said.
Now, thanks to the wizards at CNN, the continuous news cycle, and the super-charged ideological rhetoric of today, any verbal mis-step becomes the story.
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Originally Posted by Billy L-bach
Its just so damn annoying when the cycle flows like this... Hillary talks about snipers, Gore invents the internet, Obama visits 57 states and Biden talks about TV newscasts during the depression; Its presented by the apostles in the news media as a simple gaffe, lighten up republicans they mis-spoke. Is it really that hard for normal people to see through the curtain? Are there any normal people left?
George Bush says "nucular" instead of "nuclear" and he's instantly transformed into an idiot thats to dangerous to man the oval office.
Palin openly states how she stands on an issue and shes portrayed as a bible thumping wacko. Yet Obama can say his views on abortion are above his pay grade. What gives? This idiot votes "present" more often than not and yet he is the agent of change?
Is the population of this fine country really that gullible?
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I think that many people on the Left have foxed themselves into believing that they are smarter than those who disagree with them. If you disagree with the Left, it is because you've been 'deluded', 'brainwashed', 'hypnotized', 'lost', a 'sell out', an 'Uncle Tom', or you're simply corrupt. In the twenty years since I left the Democratic party and joined the GOP, I can say that I've had more honest, open, and respectful discussions with fellow Republicans over very divisive issues than I've had with my friends who are left of center on topics we share a general framework of agreement. At times, it seems they would rather be right than understand an issue from a different perspective or to get an issue resolved.