<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/archie_bland/index.html" target="_blank">Archie Bland: Oh, Joe</a>

It never rains but it pours. After Barack Obama's pig-lipstick 'gaffe', which it took real decontextualising acrobatics on the part of the Republican party to turn into a misogynist slight on Sarah Palin, Joe Biden has put his foot well and truly in it.