Yes, we can.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Oh, because they will be too busy laughing at Biden to do anything we would want to stop or will it be that we will be too busy laughing to put a stop to anything they might do?

Gaffes, right. While you're doubled up in glee with tears streaming from your eyes at the absolute hilarity of the concept that Biden said the term "TV" instead of "radio", there might be real issues being discussed by the adults at the table.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Gaffes, right. While you're doubled up in glee with tears streaming from your eyes at the absolute hilarity of the concept that Biden said the term "TV" instead of "radio", there might be real issues being discussed by the adults at the table.

CP....c'mon. You know if Palin said that FDR was President in October of 1929 she would be ridiculed. This isn't about TV - it's about historical knowledge.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

CP....c'mon. You know if Palin said that FDR was President in October of 1929 she would be ridiculed. This isn't about TV - it's about historical knowledge.

Really? You don't think that Biden is aware that FDR wasn't President during the Great Depression? You don't think he is aware that television didn't exist in 1929. Really?

Personally, I think all of the candidates brains get a little fried after weeks of talking literally non-stop. I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to McCain that he knows that Czechoslovakia no longer exists and to Obama who certainly knows that there are 50 states.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

CP....c'mon. You know if Palin said that FDR was President in October of 1929 she would be ridiculed. This isn't about TV - it's about historical knowledge.

What MBC said.

Also - Of course "she would be ridiculed", doesn't mean that I'd do the ridiculing. There have been lots of these gaffes from both sides and focusing on them shows just how much we love petty drama. I can practically hear the Married With Children audience laugh track. "Ooooooooooohhh!"

Disclaimer - I'm sure I focused on gaffes in the past, but I've totally changed my stance on them. I'm done fcuking around with slip-ups and mistakes, pointing them out only when certain people do them, and pretending they don't matter when other people do them. I could list a few moments of McCain and Palin caught in mis-speech that don't bother me to prove my point but that would mean mentioning them, and I won't do it. None of them really bother me any more.

Further disclaimer - "gaffe" means whatever we want it to mean, doesn't it? I'm sure I'll point at something and someone else will say it was just a gaffe, while I disagree. Such is life.