Vice President Joe Biden showed up a closed-door fundraiser in Columbia, S.C. on Friday and, to hear CNN tell it, gave an interesting speech.
One attendee told CNN that Biden delivered “an Elizabeth Warren-type speech” about the struggles of the county’s middle class. Biden spoke for over 30 minutes to a crowd of prominent local attorneys, Democratic activists, and current and former elected officials, according to CNN.
Biden “talked about how the system was rigged against the middle class,” one attendee told CNN. Additionally, CNN reported, “three sources there [said] that Biden said the fraying of middle-class economic security did not begin during President George W. Bush’s terms, but earlier, in the ‘later years of the Clinton administration.'”
Biden ignoring the economic chaos of Reagan/Bush makes no sense.
Poor Joe Biden. Even Obama is rooting for Hillary when he quipped last week in a jibe at Fox News that, "You’ll miss me when I’m gone. It’ll be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya.” Well played, sir.
Are there any prominent Democrats left or are they all in for Hillary?
Elizabeth Warren is in the wings, maybe not this time.
No. This is West Wing-style “Let Biden be Biden.” He activates the populist/progressive rhetoric and it allows Hillary to move the frame. I am not a Hillary-lover, but I’m also not a paranoiac. Biden doing this pulls Hillary left and activates the progressives. This is a GOOD thing. Sure, Hillary is a triangulating centrist, but this helps push her to deal with the Left.
I love Joe Biden, but please, dear Joe, place the deterioration of the middle class squarely where it belongs … with the horrible piss on me (trickle down) policies Reagan forced on us.
I personally suffered financially under Reagan/Bush when I first got out of college and finally started realizing some personal prosperity in the '90s.