You gotta luv Joe Biden..

September 23, 1:04 PMSF Politics ExaminerArthur Bruzzone

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[Joe Biden, Last night...FDR on TV?]

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"

As Reason's Jesse Walker footnotes it: "And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, 'Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?'  (From Politico) Republican Herbert Hoover, not FDR, was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929.  TV wasn’t introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World’s Fair.

[Joe Biden, Yesterday, on Clean Coal)

"No coal plants here in America," he said. "Build them, if they're going to build them, over there. Make them clean."   "We’re not supporting clean coal," he said of himself and Obama.

They do, on paper, support clean coal.

[On the now hot comment denouncing his own campaign's ad attacking John McCain....]

Biden said “I thought that was terrible by the way.  “I didn’t know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we would have never done it”.

He was referring to an attack ad from his own side in an interview with CBS, telling Katie Couric that the Obama hit on McCain’s ignorance of computers and technology was “terrible.” The ad paints McCain as out of touch — and all but calls him ancient — but doesn’t mention that the Arizona Senator’s war injuries actually prevent him from using computers for an extended period.

Comment:  Biden is refreshingly unscripted.. and honest, although not always helpful to the Obama-Biden campaign.