Joe Biden Gaffes
With President Barack Obama trying to quell fears about a swine-flu pandemic, Vice President Joe Biden decided to take to the airwaves to deliver this message: I'm warning my family, don't travel. Anywhere.
No Need to PANIC EVERYBODY!
April 30, 2009
"I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places right now. It's not that it's going to Mexico, it's that you are in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes everywhere through the aircraft. That's me.
—Biden, when asked on NBC's Today Show what he would tell his relatives if they wanted to fly to Mexico next week. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs later commented: "If people felt unduly alarmed for whatever reason, we would certainly apologize for that."
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