Politics & Government
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley for Obama? (For an Instant)
A day after Vice President Joe Biden was glad to be in Iowa, aka Ohio, Iowa's Republican U.S. Senator accidentally "endorses" President Obama.
Among the politicians standing Friday with were Rep. Steve King, who recently linked immigrants to dogs, and Sen. Chuck
As they each approached the microphone to speak to a couple of thousand people, who might regret their words first?
The "winner" on this day, if only for a moment, was Grassley.
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“We will put America on a new path to a new day with a new President Obama,” Grassley intoned.
Oops.
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Grassley caught himself.
“A new president Obama?" he asked nobody in particular. "Pardon me I want to forget that word.”
Things must be getting tiring on the campaign trail. On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden called out Romney to Iowa voters.
“I mean literally, ladies and gentlemen, this is the guy who’s running all the ads here in Iowa saying he’s going to get tough on China,” Biden said.
Only problem: Biden was in Ohio.
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