Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D). a top surrogate for the Obama campaign, told “Meet the Press” Sunday that Vice President Biden’s “put y’all back in chains” remark was delivered poorly.
“I think it was an idelicate play on the Republican words of ‘shackling’ the economy with regulations and ‘shackling small businesses,'” O’Malley said. “And so it was indelicate choice of words.”
O’Malley said Biden didn’t mean anything racial by the remarks, which were called “playing the race card” by Rick Santorum on CNN.
“There’s not a racist bone in Joe Biden’s body,” O’Malley said. “The injection of race into this campaign has been coming from the false allegations…on a very racially imbued issue of welfare reform.”
O’Malley said the welfare attacks coming from the Romney campaign are “far more out of line than the indelicate choice of words by the vice presdient.”
