Fair:

Being interviewed by Katie Couric on the "CBS Evening News," Biden said: "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.'" For those of you who aren't hard-core history buffs, Biden not only named the wrong president during the 1929 stock market crash, he also claimed a president who wasn't president during the stock market crash went on TV before Americans had TVs... Biden cast one of only five votes against the [first Alaskan pipeline] that has produced more than 15 billion barrels of oil, supplied nearly 20 percent of this nation's oil, created tens of thousands of jobs, added hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and reduced money transfers to the nation's enemies.

Michelle Obama on Joe Biden: "What you learn about Barack from his choice is that he’s not afraid of smart people."

Not to put too fine a point on it, but: these people just don't know things. And - much worse than the worst that can reasonably be said about Palin's ostensible lack of experience - they're convinced they do. They just proceed as if history is what their political agenda would like it to be. Meeting with dictators is good so Roosevelt talked to Hitler and Tojo. Soaking the rich during a downturn is good so Hoover didn't try that on the eve of the Great Depression. Obama's life story is hagiographic so his uncle liberated a death camp actually liberated by the Russians.

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