[...] sorry to see how little you know:

AP, September 24, 2008
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.
FDR was elected three years later when voters denied Hoover a second term. The Democratic challenger appealed to the “forgotten man” by promising a “new deal” to solve the Depression era.
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.

(here AP got it wrong, the 1928 Democratic Nominating Convention held in Houston, Texas, which elected Al Smith as their candidate for President was televised, and so it was the 1932 Democratic Nominating Convention held in Chicago, Illinois, where Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected as the Democratic candidate for President after four ballots. Joe Biden referred to this last Convention and Roosevelt’s acceptance speech, or perhaps to the Inaugural address, which was also carried on at TV station. The reporter who generated the AP piece didn’t do his homework and neither did you. Typical BS on the media. My note.)

Democrats usually like to remind the public that a Republican was president during the 1929 stock market crash and a Democrat — FDR — helped clean it up. During the 2004 presidential election, John Kerry’s campaign repeatedly cited Hoover as the last president until George W. Bush to oversee a loss of jobs during his time in office.
Biden was commenting on the stock market crash when he said leaders should explain the current economic crisis and how to solve it to the public.
“Part of what being a leader does is to instill confidence, is to demonstrate what he or she knows what they are talking about and to communicating to people … this is how we can fix this,” Biden said.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only United States president to have been elected to four terms of office. FDR transformed the presidency and placed the institution at the very center of American life. During twelve years in office, Roosevelt shepherded his nation through the two greatest American crises of the twentieth century — the Great Depression and World War II — and left a legacy of political freedom and domestic security to the American people.
When Roosevelt took the oath of office on March 4, 1933, America lay in the depths of the Depression. Between 12 million and 15 million Americans, about 25 percent of the work force, were unemployed. Millions of people had lost their life’s savings. Many had lost their homes and lived in makeshift shacks. Many more stood in long lines for free soup and bread. Eleven thousand of America’s 25,000 banks had failed. Herbert Hoover, Roosevelt’s predecessor, had steered a mostly idle course through the crisis, waiting for the economy to correct itself, but the correction had not come.
Franklin Roosevelt was not the type of man who waited for events to happen. In his inaugural address, he swore to bring the nation a New Deal, and backed by a soundly Democratic Congress, he took Washington by storm. Within days of taking office, he closed the remaining banks, avoiding a run on deposits that would have finished them all. He set up a system for judging the soundness of banks and reopened the ones that were solid. He moved to put the government itself on a budget, freeing up federal dollars for relief and reform measures.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt

[...] check this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_experimental_television_stations

In both conventions, 1928-Houston and 1932-Chicago, and Roosevelt 1932 inaugural speech, W2XB, also branded WGY-TV for its sister radio station, carried the proceedings (General Electric, experimental station, Started transmissions in May 10, 1928, under experimental license). W2XB is currently WRGB, in the NY/Albany market.

Interesting that Joe Biden and Barack Obama seem to know what they are talking about but are being accused of lack of experience or wrong experience, whatever… While John McCain and Sarah Palin keep showing that they don’t know what they are talking about and don’t have plans, but they are exalted as the saviors for our troubles… Right, Jesus and Mary Magdalene re-incarnated to lead us into rapture…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtP3whUbgZE&feature=related

The 60’s, isn’t that when Sen. Biden went to college?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT12O9bWUQw

No one, except some banned trolls, have suggested that rape or violence toward either Obama’s or Biden’s wife or any female who dares to run for office is the answer.

Heck, comparing Michelle Obama with Aunt Esther of Sanford and Son was met with outrage.

Posters at Huff Po have suggested that incest, rape, and child molestation are all fair game accusations unless one is being overly PC. One poster said he wanted to have sex with Palin in front of his wife. When people objected, the man said his wife thought it was funny. What goes on in that household?

People here are criticizing/mocking what Joe Biden said on tape.

Not quite the same as unsubstantiated sexual allegations and jokes about rape.

The Chinese are sitting on top of $2 trillion in U.S. Debt and currency.

We revere the photogenic.

We’re sitting under $11 trillion of National Debt.

DEMS are Stonewalling it, because the perception is that a bad economy helps Obambi.

The simps have no idea how bad it could get.

What’s that sound?

Fiddling.

Oh yeah, Rome’s burning. Got any marshmallows?

Rezko didn’t mind taking the money that Obama helped funnel his way. Obama didn’t mind doing a real estate deal with someone like that.

But McCain and Cindy have cars! They have money! Of course Cindy personally checks on and donates money to causes for children. But she has cars!

Many of the wealthy Obama supporters have fleets of cars and multiple homes. But that’s different. Right?

Wow, you Obots are really stupid. I don’t say that to be mean, or insulting, it’s just a basic and incontrovertible FACT.

This is one of the saddest aspects of arguing with O’Bots.

What in almost any other discussion in the world would be considered a personal attack, is when said about an O’Bot, literally true.

They are either Fools or Liars.

Obama sees astronauts walking on a beach in hawaii.

The I Dream of Jeannie Presidency.

‘29 was precipitated by stock market speculation on very, very thin margins.

After the ‘crash, margin requirements were upped.

It took a while, but Wall Street invented a new way to speculate, and destroy itself, on very, very thin margins.

Derivatives.

( My feeling is that Biden unconsciously mapped Roosevelt’s statement into a world in which Biden was more comfortable, the present.

His inability to correctly recount history throws into grave doubt his stature as the ticket’s “elder statesman.”)