Biden: New Jersey has a great governor in … Tim Kaine?
posted at 11:36 am on June 26, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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We have great fun with our Obamateurisms, but Joe Biden may need his own category soon. We knew that Biden was a Past Gaffemaster, but who knew he’d fail to correctly name the Democratic governor of New Jersey — in prepared remarks? Andrew Malcolm has the story:
For your Joe Biden Gaffe files: Washington. Mandarin Oriental Hotel. LGBT fundraiser. Hauled in about $1 mill. 33% better than last year with Michelle Obama. …
Biden also praised Tim Kaine as the “great governor of New Jersey.”
One problem: Tim Kaine’s not governor of New Jersey.
Jon Corzine (right) is governor of New Jersey (Remember, he didn’t wear his seatbelt in the state patrol car for the big high-speed crash).
Tim Kaine is governor of another state, called Virginia.
He’s also chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Andrew reports that Biden used his TelePrompter to deliver that remark, and that it wasn’t just off the cuff. That meant that Biden, who reportedly got chosen as a running mate because of his status as an eminence grise among Democrats, apparently can’t tell Kaine from Corzine. Both of them may be out of a job soon, but still, the similarities more or less end there.
The fundraiser with LGBT leaders drew the ire of protesters, who called attendees “gay Uncle Toms” for supporting Biden and Barack Obama after the latter defended the Defense of Marriage Act in court. Biden pledged to repeal DOMA during the meeting, but apparently declined to explain how that fit with his boss’ repeated insistence that he opposes gay marriage and the administration’s defense of the law in court. That’s less of a gaffe, though, than just business as usual with administration promises.
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This is consistent with Biden’s previous comment, that Virginia adjoins Delaware. Apparently he thinks the state to the immediate north-east of Delaware is Virginia.
burt on June 26, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Maybe Biden was thinking of former NJ governor Tom Kean?
Still a gaffe, but it makes more sense than confusing NJ with Virginia…
daledamos on June 26, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Would sure like to know what advice this man gives to the big O. Can’t imagine what the MSM would do with these gaffs had they come from Sarah. “He can see Virginia from New Jersey”. This guy makes me feel a lot smarter.
hillbilly on June 26, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Uncle Joe has a brain? I did not know that!
Del Dolemonte on June 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Q. Why does New Jersey have so much industrial waste and Washington, D.C., so many lawyers? A. New Jersey had first choice.
diogenes on June 26, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Man, we really dodged a bullet by not putting Palin in there!
RedNewEnglander on June 26, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Stand Up Chuck!
Jeff from WI on June 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM
I’m beginning to think Sarah Palin was OVERQUALIFIED for the job.
Jeff from WI on June 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM
I GOT SO EXCITED!!! I thought we were going to rid of Governor Kaine sooner rather than later. BTW, “Both of them may be out of a job soon”. Don’t know about NJ, but here in “Virginny”, the Gov. only gets one term.
oldleprechaun on June 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM
I….don’t know who to root for.
Hawkins1701 on June 26, 2009 at 3:55 PM
And to think the Dems were portraying McCain as a doddering and feeble old man…
redfoxbluestate on June 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Biden is just like the CSEA union that I had to belong to. Whoever they endorsed, I knew to vote against for the good of America.
pitter43 on June 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM
To become a VP like Biden in 2012, Sarah Palin will need a lobotomy.
Jeff from WI on June 26, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Before the election Chris Rock did a routine about what he would do if he had won the nomination. “I’d pick a Mexican running mate and say if you shoot me, you get him”.
Looks like hopey has the best insurance policy going. Plugs and Nancy on the bench, now that’s scary.
Dukehoopsfan on June 26, 2009 at 4:41 PM
How many flubs does this pompus moron have to make before the lacky media takes notice?
RobCon on June 26, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Biden was just in NJ to speek at Corzine’s nomination celebration. In fact, Biden was the reason that Corzine threw the NJ state’s budget down the toilet and gave CWA everything they wanted. CWA planned on picketing Corzine’s nomination celebration and Biden didn’t want to cross the picket line, so Corzine just gave in to them and said to hell to the taxpayers and the budget.
I think Biden hits the bottle a little too often.
njpat on June 26, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I finally realized why Biden was on the ticket. He plays well to the older, white, moron Democrat voter. You know, the real air heads that can somehow rationalize going to church on Sunday, yet voting with the infanticide party during the week.
Biden is one of them, an idiot of epic proportions.
Jeff from WI on June 27, 2009 at 7:24 AM
How many times do you have to say it! Once an idiot always an Idiot!
regmgr on June 27, 2009 at 10:02 AM
It is at least a relief that he was thinking of something.
virgo on June 27, 2009 at 12:11 PM
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