IFILL: What promises — given the events of the week, the bailout plan, all of this, what promises have you and your campaigns made to the American people that you’re not going to be able to keep?
BIDEN: Well, the one thing we might have to slow down is a commitment we made to double foreign assistance. We’ll probably have to slow that down.
Been flicking through the American VP debate transcript, and it looks like despite expectations that she’d flunk completely, Palin looks to have made some sense. Big disappointment when I read the above quote from Joe Biden though: America’s Wall St bailout will cost the promise to double foreign assistance. Bono couldn’t have been more on the money on calling these guys out on this.
Of course, the only reason you can pull out of a promise is because you made it in the first place, which naturally McCain/Palin didn’t.