The gift that keeps giving

[Denny Crane]

http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/terry-jeffrey-bidens-obsequious-bow-beij

At Sichuan University on Sunday, after Biden delivered a 4,600-word speech, a student asked him about the importance of public speaking. "That is a very good question," Biden said -- as he launched into an 863-word answer.

In the midst of those 863 words, Biden paid a tribute to brevity -- in an incoherent sentence of 68 words.

The White House transcribed this Bidenesque brilliance as follows: "And so language, the ability not only to master the ability to put your ideas into words succinctly on a platform to communicate ideas to your own people, it is even more impressive when you have the capacity to do that and communicate your ideas, especially as future business and political and moral leaders of the world in the language of the people to whom you are speaking."

 

[bluefrog]

http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/terry-jeffrey-bidens-obsequious-bow-beij

At Sichuan University on Sunday, after Biden delivered a 4,600-word speech, a student asked him about the importance of public speaking. "That is a very good question," Biden said -- as he launched into an 863-word answer.

In the midst of those 863 words, Biden paid a tribute to brevity -- in an incoherent sentence of 68 words.

The White House transcribed this Bidenesque brilliance as follows: "And so language, the ability not only to master the ability to put your ideas into words succinctly on a platform to communicate ideas to your own people, it is even more impressive when you have the capacity to do that and communicate your ideas, especially as future business and political and moral leaders of the world in the language of the people to whom you are speaking."

Is the gift being a long-winded blow hard or Biden's Vice Presidency?

 

[Denny Crane]

The unending stream of gaffes.

Compare to Perry, say, who said printing more money FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES is ALMOST treason. The main stream media drops the word "almost" from his statement and act like he made some gaffe. While ignoring Biden. They didn't excuse anything W said that came out wrong, either.

 

[jlprk]

Perry said a lot more than that in his book. You picked a favorable example.

 

[Denny Crane]

The excerpts of his book that I've seen are right on.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-his-campaign/2011/08/23/gIQAZW35YJ_blog.html

Here is non-candidate Perry writing about Social Security in “Fed Up!”:

“This unsustainable fiscal insanity is the true legacy of Social Security and the New Deal. Deceptive accounting has hoodwinked the American public into thinking that Social Security is a retirement system and financially sound, when clearly it is not….Now if you say Social Security is a failure, as I have just done, you will inherit the wind of political scorn. Seniors will think you want to cut the benefits they have paid for…We are told that no politician has the courage to raise these issues, even if avoiding them puts us on the fast track to financial ruin. But by remaining quiet, politicians are really saying they think the American people won’t understand it if we share the grim details of our financial future…Is that how we should respect our fellow citizens? By underestimating their intelligence, their desire to retire with greater stability or their commitment to the next generation?”