After the Boston Globe’s editorial page called on Vice President Biden to apologize for his endlessly looped “put you back in chains” remark, a top spokesperson for the Obama campaign said the battle had become “a distraction.”
“Speaker Boehner and even Paul Ryan have been traveling this country talking about the need to ‘unshackle the private sector’, to ‘unshakle the financial industry’,” Cutter said. “The vice president was just taking that metaphor a step further and talking about wanting to put other people in shackles and the word that he used, chains, is a distraction from the larger argument.”
