Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for Obama’s re-election effort, defended Vice President Joe Biden’s remark that the middle class has been “buried” over the last four years on MSNBC Wednesday, saying it is a reference to the policies of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, not President Obama’s policies.
If you look at what the vice president said and what he’s been saying on the campaign trail is that the middle class has been buried by the exact same policies that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to go back to. You know, you shouldn’t be cutting taxes for those at the top and asking the middle class to pay for it. You shouldn’t be undoing reforms on Wall Street that will prevent another taxpayer bailout. Those are the exact policies that crashed our economy in the first place. And that’s what Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are promising to take us back to. That’s what the president — the vice president was communicating on the stump yesterday.
On Tuesday, Republicans pounced on Biden’s remark that “the middle class has been buried the last four years” and the Romney campaign on Wednesday released a video attacking it.
