Vice President Joe Biden's Greatest Gaffes
See when Biden's loose lips got the best of him.
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The Chain Game - Vice President Joe Biden's penchant for speaking off the cuff hasn't always gone in his favor. Keep reading for a look back at his most memorable — and infamous — gaffes so far. — Britt Middleton Biden drew the ire of conservatives after he recently told an audience in southern Virginia, which included hundreds of Black voters, that Romney wanted to put them "back in chains" by deregulating Wall Street. The statement rehashed concerns that Biden's impromptu style was a liability to President Obama's re-election campaign. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Biden Approves Same-Sex Marriage Before Obama - "I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties," the vice president said in an interview on Meet the Press in May. Just a few days later, President Obama officially endorsed same-sex marriage, leaving critics to wonder if Biden had spoken out of turn. (Photo: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire)
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Innuendo Overload - In April, Biden defended President Obama's foreign policy strategy by saying Obama followed President Theodore Roosevelt's mantra: "Speak softly, and carry a big stick." "I promise you, the president has a big stick," a straight-faced Biden told the snickering crowd. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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So Fresh, So 'Clean' - Biden came under fire in January 2007 for describing the then-senator of Illinois as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."(Photo: Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
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Trouble in Biden's Aisle - In 2006, in an interview on C-SPAN'S Road to the White House documentary, Biden described the population of Indian immigrants in Delaware as being so prevalent that a person "cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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