The Occasional Observer

1. From the Politico:

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"

2. With respect to coal power and the environmental damage they cause, here's Joe's solution:

"No coal plants here in America," he said. "Build them, if they're going to build them, over there [in China]. Make them clean."

I'm sure they'll be thrilled to hear that in PA, VA, WVa, KY, IN, NM, and CO. So much for energy independence. Let's just shift our reliance from Tehran to Beijing.

3. Attacking his own campaign:

Asked whether he’s disappointed with the tone of the campaign, including the ad that Couric characterized as “making fun of John McCain’s inability to use a computer,” Biden said “I thought that was terrible by the way.

“I didn’t know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we would have never done it”

4. Then, of course, there's the ever-popular:

“Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America,” Mr. Biden said Wednesday in Nashua, N.H. “Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.”

5. From the convention:

Biden calls Obama "Barack America." He does not correct himself.

6. More from the convention, via HuffPost. Speaking of his first wife, Biden says:

"She also has a doctorate degree, which is a problem." What do you mean, Joe?

7. Explaining Obama's appeal, from the primaries:

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy"

Not like every African American politican before Obama. You know--fringe radicals, dirty, inarticulate, ugly.