Repost due to wonky formatting. Woopsie. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2008/10/13/joe_biden_hails_new_biden_administration
Joe Biden is enjoying himself so much on the campaign trail that occasionally he gets to thinking he's about to become president. "In a Biden...an Obama-Biden administration," he said during an event at an American Legion hall here in Rochester, New Hampshire this morning, catching himself just in time.
"We know, we know," he responded jovially as the crowd realised what he'd said. "It's hard to get used to. We got his thing the right way." He pointed at a group of men who were barracking him good-naturedly. "These are my old buddies over here from the shipyard."
Last month at an event in Fort Myers, Florida, he referred to the "Biden administration" before correcting the phrase and adding as he laughed and crossed himself: "Believe me, that wasn't a Freudian slip. Oh Lordy day, I tell ya."
The veteran Delaware senator may have an autocue and a set of notes in front of him but he tends to ignore them. "Let me begin by saying Happy Columbus Day," he said at the start of the Rochester event. "I may be Irish but I was smart enough to marry Italian."
Biden pointed at a woman in the front row and said: "This beautiful lady at the front goes, ?Yeah'. Lord God!"
Re: Joe Biden hails new ?Biden administration?
Yea, Palin made the same slip:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/the-palin-mccain-administ_n_127567.html
In particular when you've run for president yourself, I can imagine it would be hard to break the habit!
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