Obama-Biden gaffe recap for the week

There’s a saying of some sort that goes something like “the nice thing about not telling lies is you don’t have to keep track of them.” The nice thing about starting with sound principles and building your positions on them and then acting according to principle means you don’t have to spend half your presidential campaign explaining why your running mate disagreed with you, or why you disagree with yourself.

Hat tip Michelle Malkin for putting them all together

First there’s the insensitivity towards people with disabilities. Biden tells Lawmaker Chuck Grahm to stand up at a rally. Oops. Chuck is confined to a wheelchair. Meanwhile, Obama has been running ads making fun of McCain not being able to send emails. Had they thought about this ad before running it? Or do they just not care? If they did, they’d remember McCain’s inability to type is due to injuries sustained at the hands of the communist torturers while he was a prisoner of war. What’s next? Will they’ll make fun of McCain because his disability prevents him from combing his hair and tying his shoes? Knowing hard core liberal head nodders, they’d lap it up.

Next you have Biden calling said ad where McCain’s disability is made fun of “terrible” by Joe Biden. Precious. Especially when Biden says “there wasn’t anything intentional about that” while Couric, struggling to keep things in softball territory says “well didn’t he approve the ad? he said he did?”

Then, there was Biden, who took the same position on the AIG bailout as McCain. Trouble is, Obama and Biden hadn’t had time to assemble a focus group and compare notes, so while Obama was criticizing McCain’s position, he was also criticizing Obama’s. When asked: “He should have waited.” Waited?

Finally, Obama is promising to build clean coal plants and Biden is promising cute little greenies no coal plants.