President Biden vs. President Palin

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Biden about FDR being on TV ....
Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden is known for making gaffes, and some Democratic insiders are hoping that he won't be making any when millions of people are watching the big debate on Thursday night.

Biden squares off against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a long-awaited contest that could draw a larger audience than the big event last Friday night between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain at Ole Miss.

Biden's latest gaffe came up when he was talking about the $700 billion bailout that was supported by a bipartisan group before it failed on the U.S. House floor this week. Biden said that President George W. Bush needed to address the nation in the same way that a famous Democratic president had done more than 75 years ago.

"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,'' Biden told CBS News anchor Katie Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' ''

The only problem is that FDR was not the president when the stock market crashed. Herbert Hoover was. The second problem is that television was not widely available during the 1929 market crash, and the dominant means of communication at the time was the radio.