Joe Biden has been criticized as a man who could too-often go off-script.<\/p>\n

You could make a case that his entire career in gaffery could be summed up with his infamous 2006 comment to an Indian-American supporter: \u201cYou cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin\u2019 Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I\u2019m not joking.\u201d<\/p>\n

If that won\u2019t suffice, a highlights reel from this year\u2019s Democratic debates will do, so long as the clip where he talks about eliminating systemic racism by leaving the record player on for children at night plays at least twice.<\/p>\n

And even though it wasn\u2019t delivered during the debates, no highlight reel of the 2020 election cycle would be complete without a clip of Biden saying that \u201cpoor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids\u201d during a speech in Iowa last August.<\/p>\n

After all these years, that\u2019s changed. As the presidential race nears, Biden is a man who\u2019s very deliberately on-script. Or, using a word the Democratic candidate himself is fond of using when he shouldn\u2019t, Biden is literally on-script.<\/p>\n

The problem is that, Biden being Biden, he can still read from the wrong part of the script.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a clip of an interview Biden gave to Miami\u2019s WTVJ-TV was posted by the station. It dealt with his answer to curbing the twin pillars of socialism \u2014 Cuba and Venezuela \u2014 in Latin America.<\/p>\n

South Florida is home to large communities of Cuban- and Venezuelan-Americans, neither of which view the Obama administration\u2019s policies toward either country with unmixed delight.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the content of Biden\u2019s answer that was the problem. It wasn\u2019t terribly good in my opinion, mind you; Biden said \u201cTrump\u2019s incoherent approach has alienated international partners, undermined the cause of democracy and his policy has failed to eliminate human suffering for millions of Venezuelans,\u201d offering scant details for any of this or how his administration would do things differently.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Biden had to say before this, however:<\/p>\n

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Oops! Joe Biden read the "topline message" part of the talking points his handlers gave him for a TV interview. <\/p>\n

He apparently couldn't remember it on his own. pic.twitter.com\/0iGG83FZKA<\/a><\/p>\n

— Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) September 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n