It’s been a rough two days for Joe Biden.  He was forced into a humorously unbelievable retraction after slamming an Obama/Biden campaign ad that mocked McCain’s inability to send email (thanks to war injuries).  Then he got caught fibbing about his helicopter being forced down in Afghanistan by terrorists.  Now he’s been caught on video railing against clean coal initiatives in America.

Something that Obama actually has as a plank in his campaign platform:

Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology.

Obama’s Department of Energy will enter into public private partnerships to develop five “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology.

Here’s Biden telling a crowd that the Obama/Biden campaign is “not supporting clean coal.”

And now, because the Obama/Biden campaign thinks we’re all stupid, here is a press release claiming that Biden didn’t really say what we all heard him say.

The Democrats are responding by essentially reiterating Obama’s stance on the issue, implying that this was merely a matter of Biden speaking out of school.

“Senator McCain knows that Senator Obama and Senator Biden support clean coal technology,” says Biden spokesman David Wade. “Senator Biden’s point is that China is building coal plants with outdated technology every day, and the United States needs to lead by developing clean coal technologies. The Obama-Biden comprehensive energy plan will invest $150 billion over 10 years in clean energy technologies, including incentives to accelerate private sector investment in commercial scale zero-carbon coal facilities. The Obama-Biden Department of Energy is committed to developing 5 ‘first-of-a-kind’ commercial scale coal-fired plants with carbon capture and sequestration here in the United States.”

Someone tell me again what advantages and positives Biden brought to Obama’s ticket again.  I’m still trying to figure one out.