Actually, Biden has a history of making verbal gaffes, like saying that if you go into a 7-11 you have to have an Indian accent, and saying that Obama is the first articulate, clean-cut African American in the public eye. He's also been nailed for plagiarism in the past.
And Clinton had a reputation for being smart; maybe the southern accent threw some people off, but the guy is certainly not dumb.
My biggest issues about Biden are that he's a party insider (several decades in Washington), and he's old (he's only six years younger than McCain, which means we can't really play the age card anymore). It doesn't really fit with the whole "change" ticket.
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Date: 2008-08-23 06:34 pm (UTC)And Clinton had a reputation for being smart; maybe the southern accent threw some people off, but the guy is certainly not dumb.
My biggest issues about Biden are that he's a party insider (several decades in Washington), and he's old (he's only six years younger than McCain, which means we can't really play the age card anymore). It doesn't really fit with the whole "change" ticket.