Biden Gaffe on Eve of US Presidential Debate
Biden gaffe on eve of US presidential debate (via AFP)
Vice President Joe Biden inadvertently tossed raw meat to Republican rivals Tuesday barely 24 hours ahead of the first presidential debate, saying the middle class has been “buried” during the last four years. With President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney laying low ahead of Wednesday…
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Gaffe… What gaffe?
Over the last four years, the Middle Class has been ‘buried.’
We’ve been buried by a vicious, mean spirited, and obstructive Republican Party that has sold out to big business, the multinationals, and the ‘One Percenters.’
Lead by the least productive House of Representatives (Republican majority) in 75 years and the most obstructive Senate (Republican minority) who have used the filibuster to prove how little they care about the American people…
Get that, HOW LITTLE THEY CARE about the American PEOPLE!
The last four years the Middle Class in America HAS been ‘buried’… ‘Buried’ by Republicans.
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Well-said, Steve
Even Joe’s inveterate head of lettuce knows how and why the middle class got buried in 2008 and the Republican Congress’s determination not to dig them out. Why they constantly want to remind us about it is a mystery to me.
SteveK, yup, you have that right! Good points.
The obstructionist Republican Party is out to bury the middle-class alive and let it slowly suffocate.
It as a gaffe. In short attention span world, comments like that are never good.
This truth thing from Biden is entertaining, and well, the truth.
BTW: What do you guys think of the “old” Obama, circa June 2007, my how he has changed, not that Mitt would criticize him for since Mitt has as many turns as a corkscrew: http://dailycaller.com/
P.S. I’m mighty suspicious that this tape should come out on the eve of the first debate. Smells of dirty politics.
dd
I assumed there would be a Rev. Wright eruption sometime, but they should have waited until after the first debate. I suppose the early voting made it necessary to re-run it now. If Romney did poorly, this might work as balm for his devotees; if he did well, it might add on to his narrative with the few undecided. As usual, four minitues out of forty, doesn’t impress, and bringing up Katrina…gutsy, very gutsy. Red meat for any anti-black racists, of course, but they are not in Obama’s camp anyway.
You mean the choreographed Tucker Carlson (who?), Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge light comedy? It’s been pretty much pooh-poohed before it hit the streets simply on the character, or lack there of, of the ‘Three Stooges.’
The Guardian - Conservative media release old video of Obama in so-called ‘explosive’ exclusive
Ohio, I have no problem with Wright, he has the right to his opinions, many of which are valid. I am viewing this tape, which is the FULL version as Carlson points out, not the nine minute one, to get an impression of Obama before he evolved into his newer incarnation.
dd
So are you for or against evolution? Be careful how you answer.
Your link led to DC and the four minutes of an apparently forty minute video that was widely viewed in 2007. Just saw part of the four minutes on MSNBC, so for better or worse, the Romney campaign is involved in bringing it to national attention again.
Many articles have been written about how black politicians talk to blacks and whites differently, just as Romney’s 47% speech shows how all politicians talk to the rich and the to rest of us differently. Does this little diversion have anything to do with Biden’s “gaffe”? Maybe we should wait until an article about it shows up, as I’m convinced it will. Maybe we will even see the whole 40 minutes.
Ohio, evolved is the euphemism used to describe Obama’s change from his opposition to support of gay marriage. I didn’t want to be too snarky by putting it in quotes. I am not commenting on Carlson’s or Hannity’s comments, I am merely looking at the full FORTY minute version and asking opinions about it as a standalone event, without the pundit window dressing, pro and con. This should be done by moderates for all speeches to get the overall tone of a speech including Biden’s, and the gotcha conclusions. I don’t expect non-moderates to have the time to do that, BTW.
P.S. I don’t know what you mean by the four minutes.
dd
OK Joe has an article up now, so we can discuss it there. When I use your link, and go to DC it goes right to a page with a HUGE picture and when you click on that picture, you get to an article that has a 4 minute video imbedded. Maybe on the new thread you can give a link to the 40 minute video. Thanks. See you there.
Well said SteveK, but Shannon has a point. Calmer heads (we are all on “The Moderate Voice” after all) would be expected to contextualize and understand that despite Obama’s inaction on some issues, he’s largely been castrated by a GOP that has had it out for him since Day Uno. GOP partisans and the ADD media however will see this as a gaffe and either exploit it for political gain or ratings gain. GOP partisans will pin it all on Obama (a narrative that a large number of Americans buy into or are at least open to) while the general ADD media will play the gossip-girl role it often plays in offering a story up for public consumption with no context.