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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVice President Biden slams GOP hopefuls at fundraiser
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/06/biden-slams-gop-hopefuls-at-fundraiser/Vice President Joe Biden ramped up his criticism of GOP presidential candidates on Monday, telling a crowd at a fundraiser in Florida that Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were woefully out of touch with economic reality.
"Mitt Romney says the best way to deal with foreclosures is to let everything hit the bottom," Biden said at a fundraiser in Tallahassee. "No, no, no, no by the way, from purely a dollars and cents standpoint, he could get ready to argue that, that's right out of the business school manual. But guess what? We're not reorganizing and purchasing companies, we're trying to rebuild a country."
Biden hits Gingrich's food-stamp comment as 'inappropriate'
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/208981-biden-hits-gingrichs-food-stamp-comment-as-inappropriate
Vice President Biden attacked GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Monday, calling the former House Speaker "inappropriate" for labeling President Obama the "food stamp president."
Appearing at campaign stop in Tallahassee, Fla., Biden took aim at Gingrich and Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, saying the two Republicans are showing their true colors in their remarks in recent months.
"These are the same guys who are calling the president a 'food stamp president,' a thinly veiled I don't know what it is, but it's inappropriate," Biden said. "It's inappropriate."
(snip)
"For the first time, the Republicans are not to use a football metaphor, hiding the ball. They're saying exactly what they believe. For real, no, it's good. It's good because for the first time we can have an honest debate. These guys aren't out there saying, 'We're compassionate conservatives, we want to fight to protect Medicare and Medicaid.' They're just being straight up, saying what they believe."
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Vice President Biden slams GOP hopefuls at fundraiser (Original Post)
cal04
Feb 2012
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elleng
(131,201 posts)1. Definitely not Compassionate Conservatives anymore!
GOT'em, Joe!!!
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)2. You tellum Joe...You tellum....
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)3. Give 'em Hell Joe!
I remember how Biden demolished Giuliani, "He's a noun a verb and 9/11."
gateley
(62,683 posts)4. You go, Joe!
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)5. This should shut up the "dump Biden" brigade (nt)
gateley
(62,683 posts)6. The ONLY suggestion I would have is to lay it out that under Bush XXX # of people
obtained food stamps, under Obama XXX # of people -- because it's fewer under Obama, right?