Tuesday morning on AM Tampa Bay on 970 WFLA, Vice President Joe Biden was asked by Jack Harris about the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The VP said "I really don't know about the Van Jones group, except what I read in the press." The group is currently protesting in New York City against the social and economic inequality, corporate greed and the influence of corporate money and lobbyists on government.
Later in his response in talking about the frustration seen in the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Group, Biden said "you have on the one end Van Jones' guys, whoever he is, talking about Wall Street." Jack Harris and Tedd Webb stopped him to tell him he had previously been "Green Czar" in the administration. The VP responded, "Oh is that... alright"
It's Twilight in America again...
George Stephanopoulos, ABC News: "And a lot of anger out there. There's so many people who simply don't think they're better off than they were four years ago. How do you convince them that they are?"
President B.O.: "Well, I don't think they're better off than they were four years ago. They're not better off than they were before Lehman's collapse, before the financial crisis, before this extraordinary recession that we're going through. I think that what we've seen is that we've been able to make steady progress to stabilize the economy, but the unemployment rate is still way too high. And that's why it's so critical for us to make sure that we are taking every action we can take to put people back to work."
Posted by: Fred ||
10/04/2011 03:07 ||
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Americans seem better able to spot a Marxist liar now.
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They're not better off than they were before Lehman's collapse, before the financial crisis, before this extraordinary recession that we're going through.
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Look for that first sentence to be used in every Republican's advertising for the whole 2012 election cycle.
Boy, for the smartest and most awesome intellect ever to occupy the White House, he's sure not very bright, handing his opposition a money quote on a silver platter like that.
Posted by: Mike ||
10/04/2011 14:14 Comments ||
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I'm still waiting for a poll of voters who were unemployed when they voted for Obama - are they still unemployed & would they re-elect him if they could? I strongly suspect the answer is 'yes' to both questions, but would like to be wrong.
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"We've made steady progress to stabilize the economy"
So why have things continued to get worse?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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So why have things continued to get worse? 'Stablize' means something different in DC than in the real world, e.g. the Federal Reserve has a legal responsibility to maintain stable prices, something it has never done. It's also supposed to maximize employment.
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