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Re: Biden gaffes
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Originally Posted by JaneEyre
BIDEN SLIPS, SUGGESTS FDR WAS PRESIDENT WHEN MARKET CRASHED:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09...arket-crashed/
An excerpt rom the above link:
WASHINGTON — Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today’s leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response to a financial crisis.
“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. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened,”‘ Barack Obama’s running mate recently told the “CBS Evening News.”
Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn’t introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World’s Fair.
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Makes sense, coming from the running mate of the man who thinks we have 57 states, + 2 he hasn't visited yet--Alaska & Hawaii. (At the time of the statement) 
Anyway, FDR and his policies didn't end the Depression. The war did. (Kudos to Ferd for prompting me to do some research.) 
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