Joe Biden misquotes W.B.Yeats poem in latest gaffe

Ommiting the indefinite article in a phrase is never a tremendous error.

Ah, c'mon! Good 'ol Joe was at least close and that qualifies any politician these days for a gold star!

To even mention W.B.Yeats to a conservative here in the colonies, unless used as a put down is rare, being a historical follower of Island cultures and a descendent from the Isle anything Joe Biden says is straight talking, guy says maybe a wee bit off, but his heart and help is right were you can see it, on his sleeve. So I would be following some of the others on this comments, W.B.Yeats as well as any other Irish writer is honored here, and those who use their magic words to inform the masses of vile and evil such, should be encouraged, not debated for anal retentive minor language mistakes.

Pithily pedantic. Slow news day eh!

Minor, not even worth reporting. At least he was fmailiar with Ireland. I gurantee you there are many in Ireland today, who never even heard of it, never mind read it.

minor slip up on his part. NOT newsworthy at all. Certainly close enough as another poster has mentioned.

Somewhat pedantic for a populist site, I think. J. O Shea, I fear you have not been trained well or fully. I am sure that time will abrade the edges from your ability. It needs to be smoother.

What a difference a day makes, not least since the 1916 Rising was originally planned for Easter Sunday of that year, but had to be moved to Easter Monday, due to a certain degree of ideological schismatism in the upper ranks of Óglaigh na h'Éireann/Irish Volunteers (ahem!) Consequently causing Pearse to miss the chronological Christian symbolism of blood sacrifice/resurrectionism. (But with the Gregorian vs Julian calendar dichotomy, who knows for sure when the original gig took place anyway?) That the messiah of modern Irish republicanism was executed by the heirs apparent to imperial Rome, (with the tacit assent of the Sanhedrin-in-sheeps-clothing), speaks volumes to unrevised listeners in the 26 county proto-republic, (and its 6 county neo-provincial reflection behind that commissioned boundary line in the shifting Sands of colonial chicanery).

Joe Biden does us no favours by reminding us what damage was done to Ireland by mad Poets!! Especially as the 'Terrible Beauty' he refers to turned into the bloody quagmire the independent Irish carved for themselves afterwards, leading to the present humiliating poverty and begging-bowl culture it endures today ... and only themselves to blame!

It's close enough in a casual convo. How many of us recall poems verbatim?

cut a paddy some slack - poem snoem who gives a rats

Charlie 0491 is right. There are plenty of real Biden gaffs. This is nothing compared to saying he likes to hang around in a coffee shop that closed twenty years ago.

Mr. O'Shea, a gaffe is when you call half of population of the United States, parasites!

Go raibh maith agat, Jerry Donovan. You made my day.

WK, when was the last time you heard Robme or LyanRyan quoting poetry? To say nothing of quoting Yeats. Give Biden credit. Particularly this quote.