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That Silly VP Candidate Stumbles Over Basic Vocabulary Again

1:26 AM, Oct 9, 2008 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM
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After referring to McCain as an "angry man lurching from one position to another," and a dear, dear friend, Joe Biden offered this gem:

"You know, the idea here that somehow these guys are once again injecting fear and loathing into this campaign is ... I think it's mildly dangerous," Biden said. "Here you have out there these kinds of, you know, incitements out there -- guy introducing Barack using his middle name as if it's some epitaph or something," Biden told a crowd more than a thousand at a rally in Tampa, apparently meaning to use the word "epithet."

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