Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday during a visit to Mexico that he felt “almost obliged to apologize” for the anti-Mexican rhetoric coming from certain presidential candidates this election cycle.
“There’s been a lot of damaging and incredibly inaccurate rhetoric, and I would argue I feel almost obliged to apologize for some of what my political colleagues have said,” Biden said at a press conference in Mexico City.
Biden did not single any candidate out by name, but Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said he would deport undocumented immigrants living in the United States and erect a wall along the border with Mexico, which would cover the costs. This week, former Mexican President Vicente Fox said that the country would not pay “for that fucking wall.”
“The most heated of the rhetoric you’ve heard from some of the competitors for the nomination for President is not who we are as the American people,” Biden continued. “It is not a view that is the view of the majority of the American people. It’s the exact opposite. It’s the opposite view.”
This is a wonderful two-fer. In the first place, it’s absolutely appropriate to make some sort of apology for the ignorant hate coming, not just from Trump, but from a wide spectrum of the Republican Party (looking at you, Steve King).
But it should also work as a piece of skilled trolling, almost guaranteed to elicit more self-wounding rage from Trump; in fact, I think I’ll check his twitter feed after posting this. Piece by piece, the Dems are assembling what is probably going to be a monumental win in November.
Yes, Trump would be stupid enough to try to go after Biden. He’ll be about as successful as Paul Ryan was against Biden at the 2012 VP debate.
Hey Trump, Joe Biden ain’t Marco Rubio.
If (and I do mean IF) Trump is elected, we will be spending a great deal of time apologizing to a lot of people during his tenure…
I can only imagine what the majority of world leaders are thinking of the US right now, especially those who dealt with SoS Clinton.
He’s like that crazy uncle at holidays.
But with billions of dollars.
And millions of angry, racist, highly-armed followers.
Did I mention he might have the nuclear codes by January?
(Nervous laughter)
a couple weeks ago I was a bit distressed because I’d had to put down one of my dogs… I got a lot of condolences from people here and thank you for that…
having said all that… last weekend I drove down to Chula Vista outside of San Diego to pick up a new pup… the pup was brought over the border from Mexico… does Donnie Dimwit think he’s going to make me return my pup?
I grew up in SoCA… went to parochial school… had a lot of Latino friends… learned to cook the food… I just don’t get how anyone thinks we don’t owe people something… like citizenship…
used to be no one cared about the border… people went back and forth and no one cared… and Tex… if you think you’re a cowboy you learned your skills from the vaqueros…
btw… the picture I use is the pup I got last year when my old Wolfhound died… she was about 13 months in that pic…