Ethics

Biden's Gaffe Problem

By Ed Brayton

When Obama named Biden as his VP pick, I wrote at the time:

A bigger potential problem is Biden's tendency to say stupid things when he's speaking off the cuff. He's clearly a very intelligent man and he's also a good speaker, but he strikes me as a guy with a devious sense of humor and a lack of judgment on what he should and shouldn't say. When he starts riffing with the press he tends to talk too much and say things he shouldn't be saying in public. If he throws out one of those in the next couple months, that could be a problem.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).