Saturday, August 23, 2008

All Mouth, No Brain

clipped from blogs.abcnews.com

"The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation," said a TV ad for Sen. Joe Biden's 1988 presidential campaign.  "A President has got to know the territory, but that's not enough."


Campaigning for president in New Hampshire in 1987, href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D91F3CF931A1575AC0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print">Biden
admitted he had misstated several facts about his resume
after a
man named Frank questioned his Syracuse Law School resume.

''I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do," Biden responded.

He added that he ''went to law school on a full academic scholarship - the
only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship,'' adding that he
''ended up in the top half'' of his class (not true) and ''graduated with three
degrees from college" (not true).

Five months later, Biden acknowledged that he graduated 76th in a class of
85.

A good match for Obama in other words...