Joe Biden racks up four quote mishaps in a week

Biden criticizing Obama ad
“I thought that [ad] 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”

Biden on Taxes
“It’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”

Biden on not having coal
“No coal plants here in America,” he said. Build them, if they’re going to build them, over there [China]. Make them clean.”

MSNBC quote regarding Biden AIG gaff
Lauer pointed out, scarcely three minutes after McCain said he opposed the AIG bailout last week, “in an interview with Meredith Vieira, Joe Biden, your running mate was asked the exact same question, ‘should the federal government bailout AIG?’ And he said, ‘No, the federal government should not bailout AIG.'” (As we noted at the time.) “And I think that in that situation,” Obama said, “I think Joe should have waited as well.”

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