Biden made a slip of the tongue in an interview by saying the wrong name of the president during the Great Depression (photo)
Biden, who has rich experience, also got the president’s name wrong during the Great Depression.
Beijing, Sept. 24 (Xinhua)-In the current US general election, from the primary election of the two major parties to the current campaign, it seems that it has become a common occurrence for candidates or candidates to make slips of the tongue, say the wrong words or quote wrong data. Biden, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, made a mistake in the name of the American president in the Great Depression when he was interviewed by a TV station recently and expressed his views on the recent financial tsunami.
According to Sing Tao Global Network, Biden said in an interview with the CBS evening news program that the leaders of today’s generation should learn from history books and learn from the late American President Roosevelt how to respond to the financial crisis.
Biden said: "Do you know? When the stock market crashed, Roosevelt went on TV, not only complaining about how greedy others were. He said,’ Look! This is happening now!’ "
However, looking up the history books, when the American stock market plunged in October 1929, which opened the curtain for the Great Depression, the president was not Roosevelt who belonged to the Democratic Party, but Hoover who belonged to the Republican Party. Roosevelt was elected to the White House three years later, that is, in the election year of 1932, and Hoover failed in his re-election. During his campaign, Roosevelt promised to take new actions to lead the country out of economic difficulties.
It seems that Democrats often want to deliberately remind the public and voters that when the stock market crash triggered the Great Depression in 1929, the Republican Party was in charge. In the election year of 2004, the then Democratic candidate Kerry also repeatedly used Hoover as a topic, saying that he was the president who witnessed the shrinking employment position during his last term of office, followed by Bush.
Commenting on the recent stock market crash, Biden said that leaders of today’s generation should explain to the public the current economic crisis and how to solve it. He pointed out: "As a leader, what you should do is to slowly restore the public’s confidence, show that they know what happened, and communicate with the public to explain how to solve the problem."
This is not the first time that this presidential candidate or primary candidate has said something wrong. I remember that during the Democratic primary election, Hillary Clinton, a female senator from New York, once boasted and recalled the scene of bullets at the airport when she arrived in Bosnia by plane, but the reporter looked at the news clips and there was no such thing at all.
Editor: Meng Xu