Joe Biden: One-Man Gaffe Machine

Joe Biden is known for popping off his mouth without thinking, but he's outdoing even himself right now. Take a look at some of the recent gaffes from the third most liberal Senator currently in office:

He claimed he was shot at in Iraq...and then admitted he really wasn't. He refused to call Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization (its official status, according to the U.S. government). He apparently doesn't understand the difference between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells, nor the ethical concerns involved with both options. On a recent campaign stop, he also asked a man bound to a wheelchair to stand up to acknowledge the crowd. Most recently, he said that Sarah Palin, as the first female Vice President, would be a 'backward step' for women.

Then, we have this beauty:

He's saying that Hillary Clinton would be a better VP pick than himself, which means that he's questioning Barack the Obamessiah's judgment!

All of these (and more) have prompted historian Victor Davis Hanson to write:

Watching Joe Biden is better than examining the polls or listening to talking heads, since he instantaneously reflects cockiness, aggression, bombast, depression, and loss of confidence, predicated on the emotional pulse of the campaign.

Every day is something new: Palin is variously good looking, a step backward for women, a Lieutenant Governor, her Down's syndrome child should prompt her to support stem-cell research, Biden is going to save Obama with the working classes given he lived in Scranton until 10, and like a wounded kitten he meows that Hillary may have been the better VP candidate—at precisely the time of Democratic meltdown when many of his colleagues would agree.

Almost any thought that comes into his head goes out his mouth, and the strange thing is that no one seems to mind (imagine if Sarah Palin had said Obama was good looking, or a step backward, or that Romney would have been a better pick than herself), or even takes what he says seriously. He seems to have established a new Biden's Law: if one makes enough gaffes, they soon reach a point that none of them matter. And even stranger is Biden's Second Law of Politics: the more you sound obnoxious and offend, you soon reach a point where the shocked listener turns from anger to indifference and finally no less to empathy!

Truer words have rarely been spoken - Joe Biden is a one-man gaffe machine!

Rush Limbaugh, on a recent interview with Greta Van Susteren, suggested that Obama might need to consider choosing a different VP before too long, and all of these gaffes certainly lend credibility to the suggestion.

I don't know about you, but I'm really looking forward to watching him in a live debate with Sarah Palin. I think it will be a good test for both VP candidates, but it also has the potential to be absolutely hilarious.

There's my two cents.