As much as I like the guy, Vice President Joe Biden makes more gaffes than I wash my hands and for the record, I'm a little anal-retentive about that.
During a speech in Charlotte, North Carolina yesterday, Biden said the following:
"This is deadly earnest. How they (Romney/Ryan) can justify...raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years? How in the Lord's name can they justify raising their taxes and these tax cuts? We've seen this movie before - massive tax cuts for the wealthy, eliminating restrictions on Wall Street, let the banks write their own rules. We know where it ends. It ends in the catastrophe of the middle class and the Great Recession of 2008. Folks, we cannot go back to that. The president and I have a different way forward."
Of course, the only words Romney, Ryan and other Republicans are focusing they're attention on are "...the middle class...has been buried the last four years..."
Granted, could the Vice President have chosen his words better? As is often times the case with him - yes. However, are members of the right-wing intentionally misconstruing the Vice President's words, taking them out of context and misleading potential voters? Yes again.
The Vice President later clarified himself, which campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith reiterated in the following statement - "As the vice president has been saying all year and again in his remarks today, the middle class was punished by the failed (former President George W.) Bush policies that crashed our economy - and a vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is a return to those failed policies."
Just like they did with President Obama's "You didn't build that," it appears as if the Romney team is going to run with Biden's "the middle class has been buried these last four years." Like "You didn't build that," I'm not thinking this will garner much traction either, especially as it's on the eve of the first Presidential debate. The only possible way I see Biden's quote as being more newsworthy tomorrow than the debate is if the first post-debate poll tonight, instead of asking the question, "In your mind, who won the debate," asks, "How long into the debate did you fall asleep?"
http://news.yahoo.com/biden-u-middle-class-buried-last-four-years-185725754--business.html
During a speech in Charlotte, North Carolina yesterday, Biden said the following:
"This is deadly earnest. How they (Romney/Ryan) can justify...raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years? How in the Lord's name can they justify raising their taxes and these tax cuts? We've seen this movie before - massive tax cuts for the wealthy, eliminating restrictions on Wall Street, let the banks write their own rules. We know where it ends. It ends in the catastrophe of the middle class and the Great Recession of 2008. Folks, we cannot go back to that. The president and I have a different way forward."
Of course, the only words Romney, Ryan and other Republicans are focusing they're attention on are "...the middle class...has been buried the last four years..."
Granted, could the Vice President have chosen his words better? As is often times the case with him - yes. However, are members of the right-wing intentionally misconstruing the Vice President's words, taking them out of context and misleading potential voters? Yes again.
The Vice President later clarified himself, which campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith reiterated in the following statement - "As the vice president has been saying all year and again in his remarks today, the middle class was punished by the failed (former President George W.) Bush policies that crashed our economy - and a vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is a return to those failed policies."
Just like they did with President Obama's "You didn't build that," it appears as if the Romney team is going to run with Biden's "the middle class has been buried these last four years." Like "You didn't build that," I'm not thinking this will garner much traction either, especially as it's on the eve of the first Presidential debate. The only possible way I see Biden's quote as being more newsworthy tomorrow than the debate is if the first post-debate poll tonight, instead of asking the question, "In your mind, who won the debate," asks, "How long into the debate did you fall asleep?"
http://news.yahoo.com/biden-u-middle-class-buried-last-four-years-185725754--business.html
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