Rumors flying about this yesterday...do you think it will happen? And what does it say about Obama if he kicks Biden to the curb and puts Hillary Clinton on? Will Clinton supporters come back? Or will it look as if the Democrats are truly desperate?

This was a question on this site http://www.repubicansforobama.org    I have found no news etc where this is even being considered, so I'm chalking it up to another rumor.   Biden has an exceptional women's right record and although I wish Obama had originally asked Hilary to be his running mate, he didn't and I don't see him changing now.

anotherangie says ...

I hope somebody tells Biden that they didnt have tv during the depression!

This comment makes absolutely no sense at all.

anotherangie says ...

I hope somebody tells Biden that they didnt have tv during the depression!

I am trying to figure out what TV or the depression has to do with this. An, yes, darin' there was TV in the depression years. TV was here well before the depression.

WASHINGTON — Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today’s leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response to a financial crisis. “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened,”‘ Barack Obama’s running mate recently told the “CBS Evening News.” Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn’t introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World’s Fair. FDR was elected three years later when voters denied Hoover a second term. 

That's what

Philo Farnsworth invented television in 1929, we can read about the cathode ray tube in your poster there, lol.  The Great depression was preceded by the stock market crash in 1929 and Herbert Hoover was president.  FDR came later.  The reason I brought up Biden and television in the depression was when Katie Couric interviewed him on the news earlier this week, he even baffled her by saying something to the effect of FDR being the president during the depression and got on TV to speak to the country about the crisis.  Ok...........................how many televisions were in how  many homes in the depression Kayakrn7?  Were there an;y television stations yet?  I dont know but I dont really care eithher. Does anybody here actually watch the news?  Wait.........................it's too controversial and might be shocking!

Lol...............dmazement your right, I had no reason to just be mean like that.  I was making fun of Biden for that interview with Katie Couric..........and it was a rerun of that interview I was watching while getting ready for work on Fox News  <I know alot of people think Fox news is evil, I really do enjoy it though>.  i admit I only watch the news when its convenient and I also admit CD has sent me alot of promising info on Obamas thoughts on his proposed policies.  Biden really said  that on that excerpt about FDR in the depresssion.  But then again.............President Bush cant say the word "Peninsula" ..................he says 'peninsular'.   Honestly, I think Biden seems like a good man.  Alot of people me included, look for the littlest mistake they might make in public and forget about the issues.  Its like.......oh, look what he said this time!  I'll go stand in the corner now.

Biden Claimed President Franklin Roosevelt Went On Television To Speak To The American People In 1929:

Biden Said Franklin Roosevelt Appeared On Television As President In 1929. "Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by. He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis. 'When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed,' Biden told Couric. 'He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' As Reason's Jesse Walker footnotes it: 'And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, 'Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?''" (Ben Smith, "Biden Garbles Depression History," The Politico's "Ben Smith" Blog, 9/2 3/08)

And more mis'statements from good ole Joe!

Then, Biden Flip-Flopped And Said There Should Be No Government Bailout Of AIG. NBC's Meredith Vieira: "But now we have this mess, Senator. Do you think that AIG should be bailed out by the federal government?" Biden: "No, I don't think they should be bailed out by the federal government." (NBC's "Today," 9/18/08)

Barack Obama Said That Biden "Should Have Waited" Before Opposing The AIG Bailout. "But, as 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.'" (Jake Trapper, "Obama on Biden's Initial Opposition to AIG Bailout: 'Joe Should Have Waited,'" ABC's "Political Punch" Blog, 9/23/08)

Biden Said "It's Time To Be Patriotic" And Pay Higher Taxes. Biden: "We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people." ABC's Kate Snow: "Anybody making over $250,000..." Biden: "Is gonna pay more." Snow: "Is going to pay more." Biden: "You got it. It's time to be patriotic, Kate. Time to jump in. Time to be part of the deal. Time to help get America out of the rut." (ABC's "Good Morning America," 9/18/08)

Biden Said That Barack Obama "Ain't Taking My Shotguns" And That "If He Tries To Fool With My Beretta, He's Got A Problem." "'I guarantee you Barack Obama ain't taking my shotguns, so don't buy that malarkey,' Biden said Saturday at the United Mine Workers of America's annual fish fry in Castlewood, Virginia. 'Don't buy that malarkey. They're going to start peddling that to you.' Biden told the crowd that he himself is a gun owner. 'I got two,' Biden said, 'if he tries to fool with my Beretta, he's got a problem. I like that little over and under, you know? I'm not bad with it. So give me a break. Give me a break.'" (Jake Tapper and Matt Jaffe, "Oh, That Joe! (No. 14 In A Series) - Biden Says Obama Won't Take His Beretta," ABC's "Pol itical Punch" Blog, 9/20/08)

Biden Said That Being A Councilman Is Harder Than Being Senator. Biden: "I used to be a councilman. I left that for this job - for the Senate - you know why? Your job is harder." (Sen. Joe Biden, Remarks At Campaign Event, Maumee, OH, 9/17/08)

My father was a kid when the market fell in 1929.  He remembers his parents listening to it on the radio.  He says that TV's were around but that only a very few had them in their homes.  He said he remembers being in a crowd watching TV through a store window about the war and the fall of the stock market.  This was in Philadelphia not in some little town.  He said if you had a TV at the time you were looked upon in todays term as "totally rad."  So yes, TV was around but it was not owned yet in the average American household.