MR. EXPERIENCE

Posted at 7:38 a.m. ET

Once again Joe Biden shows that, as a man one heartbeat away from the presidency, he stands head and shoulders over that...that mom from Alaska.

WASHINGTON - Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis.

"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,'" Barack Obama's running mate recently told the "CBS Evening News."

Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929.

Oh, and by the way, they didn't have TV back then.  No Howdy Doody.  No Big Bird.  Not even Wolf Blitzer.

FDR was elected three years later when voters denied Hoover a second term. The Democratic challenger appealed to the "forgotten man" by promising a "new deal" to solve the Depression era.

No, he tried to solve the problems of the Depression.  He didn't try to solve the Depression era.  You don't solve an era.  Geez, can we get the reporters to get it right.

Biden was commenting on the stock market crash when he said leaders should explain the current economic crisis and how to solve it to the public.

"Part of what being a leader does is to instill confidence, is to demonstrate what he or she knows what they are talking about and to communicating to people ... this is how we can fix this," Biden said.

And you certainly did it, Joe - by messing up the memory of the most famous Democrat of all time.  Blessings on Barack Obama for having the wisdom to select you.  Please save us from that sitting governor of Alaska and her 80-percent approval rating.

Maybe it's time to put the money under the mattress.

September 24, 2008.