Mr. Gaffe-o-matic himself, Joe Biden, had some words of wisdom for all of us today:
"Part of what being a leader does is to instill confidence, is to demonstrate what he or she knows what they are talking about and to communicating to people ... this is how we can fix this."
Biden then went on to say the following:
"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"
Oops...
Here's the problem Joe - Roosevelt wasn't President when the stock market crashed in 1929 - Herbert Hoover was. However, he didn't specifically refer to the President in the quote, so that's simply a technicality. Except for a couple things - First, Roosevelt was never on television in 1929. The television wasn't available until the 1930s in the United States.
Joe Biden - instilling confidence and demonstrating he knows what he is talking about since 1942.
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