My state was a slave state 2
Alert reader Ed Snyder remembered this one. During the runup to the 2008 campaign, Biden was asked about his chances in the South Carolina and responded:
[...] You don't know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state is the eighth largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a northeast liberal state...
Here's the video. The unfortunate thing, as Ed pointed out, is that Biden sounds a bit too pleased about Delaware not outlawing slavery:
What Biden says is technically true, but it's poorly phrased and just comes off all wrong. Thus, it makes our list of gaffes.
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Also…what exactly is he implying about the electorate of South Carolina? Is he suggesting that they’d be more likely to vote for him because “his state was a slave state”? If so, I can’t imagine South Carolina would be flattered by such an implication. If not, why bring it up? That’s what’s so entertaining about Joe Biden: the closer you examine what he says, the less sense it makes.
Right you are, Ed. With Biden it’s turtles all the way down.