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by arp242 704 days ago
Nah, he was known for this kind of thing. e.g. from 2013, "Best of the vice president's 'Bidenisms'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLcIMdHQvz8

2010, "Joe Biden, the vice-president who keeps putting his foot in it": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/28/joe-biden-vice...

Those were just the top two results in Google for "biden vice president gaffe", limiting the date to before 2016.

I mean, it's probably gotten worse, although I can't really judge that. But it's certainly not a new thing. I'm not saying he's not too old and tired, I'm just saying that merely the mixing up of a name alone really isn't a sign of incompetence.