The American Pundit

In an attempt to show how connected he is with the average American’s economic problems and concerns, Joe Biden talked about places he could take you to where the issues are being discussed. Here’s his answer in it entirety:

BIDEN: Can I respond? Look, all you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie’s Restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time and you ask anybody in there whether or not the economic and foreign policy of this administration has made them better off in the last eight years. And then ask them whether there’s a single major initiative that John McCain differs with the president on. On taxes, on Iraq, on Afghanistan, on the whole question of how to help education, on the dealing with health care.

Look, the people in my neighborhood, they get it. They get it. They know they’ve been getting the short end of the stick. So walk with me in my neighborhood, go back to my old neighborhood in Claymont, an old steel town or go up to Scranton with me. These people know the middle class has gotten the short end. The wealthy have done very well. Corporate America has been rewarded. It’s time we change it. Barack Obama will change it.

Ah, a man truly connected with his neighborhood and neighbors. Except, ya know, for the fact that “Katie’s Restaurant” hasn’t existed since the Clinton Administration.

But I checked The News Journal archives this morning and, well, don’t plan on trying to find it on Union Street anytime soon…

But it eventually changed hands again – at least 10 years ago, maybe even more like 15 years ago – and was renamed C.J. Bart’s, which according to features reporter Ryan Cormier in a May 2008 News Journal story became ” a spot with an unsavory reputation as a magnet for panhandlers and worse.”…

Cormier reported that Nate Johnson, owner of the Wilmington and Dewey Beach Wings to Go restaurants, recently took over CJ Bart’s and renamed it Wings to Go at Katies “as an homage to its former residents.

Katie’s Restaurant hasn’t existed for over a decade. Yeah, he’s real connected.