"My sister is smart, runs every one of my campaigns; is beautiful; graduated with honors from college; is homecoming queen.
But she's a ... she is what I call a 'girl-boy' growing up, you know what I mean?"
"And I tell you what? Girl-girls are tougher than girl-boys," he said. "But there's one important thing I noticed.The great thing about marrying into a family with five sisters, there's always one that loves you. 'Cause you can count on splitting them a bit. You know what I mean?
"I shouldn't be going off like this, but -- hey, folks, 37 more hours, 37 more hours," he then said.
In his speech, Biden followed with a self-described Freudian slip, in which he confused John McCain and George Bush.
Biden argued that electing McCain would mean four more years of Bush administration policies, but as is always the case with the Delaware senator, a routine line delivered hundreds of times on the trail can still be an adventure.
"In the most recent debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, John McCain felt the need to say to Barack, to the commentator and to all America that he was not John McCain," Biden said in the slip-up. "I mean, he was not President Bush."
Bookmarks