Democratic strategist Jimmy Williams and the Hill's A.B. Stoddard talk about Vice President Joe Biden's comments about Mitt Romney's idea for the future of the economy.
Joe Biden sounds like he's had enough of Mitt Romney's rhetoric.
The vice president flew into eastern Ohio today to counter a GOP argument that Democrats hope to sow "envy" between the middle class and the wealthy.
"I resent when they talk about families like mine that I grew up in," the vice president said in a sometimes fiery speech at a manufacturing facility in Youngstown. "I resent the fact that they think we're talking about envy, that's it's job envy, it's wealth envy. That we don't dream."
"My mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams!" he said to mounting applause. "They don't get us! They don't get who we are."
Echoing the campaign's new TV ad hitting Romney's record as the head of Bain Capital, Biden also accused the GOP presumptive nominee of gutting companies without regard for hundreds of employees who lost their jobs and benefits when they were shuttered.
"Romney made sure the guys on top got to play by a separate set of rules, he ran massive debts, and the middle class lost," Biden said, taking no prisoners. "And folks, he thinks this experience will help our economy? Where I come from, past is prologue, man. So what do you think he'll do as President?"
Biden argued that jobs in eastern Ohio are returning, highlighting the campaign's focus on revitalizing the manufacturing industry.
"You know the difference between an economy that's built on making things rather than on collateralized debt, creative credit default-swaps, financial instruments subprime mortgages," he said. "That's not how you grow an economy."
Biden also promoted the Obama administration's widely popular decision to bail out the auto industry three years ago. One in eight jobs in Ohio are related to the auto industry, as Biden pointed out in a tweet:
In Ohio, 1 in 8 jobs relate to the auto industry—that’s 848,000 Ohioans whose jobs are more secure thanks to President Obama. #MadeInOhio
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 16, 2012
"Folks, as you've begun to see in the Valley, things really are starting to come back. There are signs of hope in the heartland," the vice president said. "Jobs are starting to come back. And the ones that are coming back are the kind you can build a middle class life on. Manufacturing jobs."
Hopefully, Biden's tone and rhetoric will prove to be contagious and spread to other Democratic candidates.
Ed will have a lot more to say about this tonight on The Ed Show at 8pET on MSNBC!



That's the problem, he and his parents only dream; they don't act on their dreams; they don't know what personal responsibility is all about and they don't understand how to get out of the coal mines and smell fresh air...the canary left along time ago.
Talk about dreaming you take the cake with the delusional dreams your trying to spread. Once again we see another tea bagging republican basing life on what John Wayne westerns and little house shows that prove that individuals were responsible and independent. LOL. Here is a clue, independent people back in your fantasy world would have died in real life, more then likely from starvation or a wild animal would get them.
Just curious, Takers; Have you ever been hired by a poor person ? Have you ever been hired ? Then why the war on the achievers ?
Yeah, that will serve you well !
If the middle class wasn't there to do the work in their plants and factories there would be NO RICH CLASS!
They would be nothing with out us!
Um no. There would be serfs and peasants supporting them. There have always been the wealthy and the poor. It's the middle class that's a relatively new social order.
Or as the GOP calls it, the good old days.
Hey Judy...no one is forcing anyone to stay at a job they don't like. If the CEO is making too much in your opinion, go find a company where it is in line with what you believe is should be.
If you leave, someone else will come along to take your position. Sorry to be blunt, but that is the truth. Right now the labor market has much more supply than demand, which is going to drive wages down.
Then we get more of storms nonsense. He keeps forgetting that he whines there are no jobs then turns around and claims people can quit their current job to go right to work at another job. Got to laugh at how they never think beyond the talking point they are using that shows them to be speaking out of both sides of their necks.
That is what the republicans want. Serfs and peasants......better know in America as slavery. If it is so great why did we had a civil war about it? ....How about REVOLUTION to restore our dreams?
Then if there is not another job...shut up and be grateful that you have one.
Should we kiss their feet, Stormy? And be thankful for the few that haven't been sent out of the country by our masters?
And don't forget about the $2.00/hr and 14 hr days. That's a lot to be thankful for.
Actually, yes you should be grateful for them. No one is forcing you to let them be your masters. If you don't like it, find a way to go out on your own.
I am ashamed of you thankful mom. Now I know you are not really a mother...but you are some kid on your mother's account. Be careful what you wish for.
All you and whomitmay do is call people names. You guys are sickening.
Can you imagine if something happened to Obama that this nut would become president. That is a scary thought. Joe the gaffer as president. He would probably push the buttom and go "oooops"!!!!...spoke too soon.
Well, the polls are speaking. The leftie loonies are beginning to get sucked down the drain. These battles are won and lost at the voting booth....except when you lefties lose, then you want to march and revolt. I wish you would move to China.
Just wait until Walker stays in and Obama exits. I hope you guys hush then. By the way, did you hear the latest" 39% of union members in Wisconsin want Walker to stay...they don't want to be a slave to the unions.
Thankfulmom wants a revolution. She is no true mother. She just gave herself away. This is some wacked out dude out of work and not looking for a job on his parent's computer.
I think you pretty much just described yourself. And criticizing Joe Biden after 8 years of George Bush pretty much demonstrates that you have internet privileges in your asylum.
Hey realchris. Can you ever comment on anything without bringing up George Bush? What is it with you guys? Every thing goes wrong in the last 3.6 year...it Bush....everything that goes right the last 3.6 years...its Obama. Do you honestly think the public is that stupid? Believe me, they are not.
You CERTAINLY are.
Johnnie: I am praying for an impeachment in feb, and that nut being president.
I don't see him as a party animal wasting our tax money, I don't see the press pulling out all the stops to lie about him, I don't see boehner changing his mind and giving biden blank checks. Ford wasn't any better, but I will take him for 4 years so the rinos can prove they are listening and will start getting the country fixed, over fighting both parties shafting us again because rinos guy is in the white house.
Worse case he lets a few terrorists blow up those woefully inept blue cities that need clensing anyways. But they voted for him so have no thing to complain about.
@TheRealChris,
Everyone knows "It's the Economy, Stupid". It's not GWB's economy anymore, it's Obama's. Obama will lose on his economic policies, not his social ones, i.e. Gay Marriage, Don't ask, Don't Tell.
Once again, "What did we expect from a Community Organizer with no Executive experience?" The answer is nothing, and we got it.
Dream on DB, the people know all too well about the 'policies' of the teabaggers. Obstruction, obstruction, and MORE obstruction. Along with killing medicare, SS and medicaid. What would you give their chances?
johnny,
a comment on your post above-
39% of nion members in wisconsin want walker to stay...they don't want to be a slave to the unions-
you are just wrong-39% of union members are willing to kill all the benefits that go with belonging to a union because of their love of guns, and because they hate gay marriage and abortion. they are repubs, and they believe they can vote repub and their job benefits will remain as they are, and that only the democratic jobs will be lost.
when a friend of mine was running for office in the state of montana, she would go out and talk to "rank and file" union members, just doing her "running for office thing", walking around to shake hands and talk to the people. in every union hall she would ask about gun rights. hunters are convinced that all democrats want to do is to take guns away. it doesn't matter how much we tell them that it is absolutely untrue. they don't believe what democrats tell them in regard to gun rights. repubs have convinced them that if a democrat wins, that gun rights are gone. you probably believe the same thing.
democrats know that they will lose at least 40% of the union vote based on gun rights, and possibly gay rights and abortion rights.
union repubs think that THEIR union jobs are safe, and if a repub in office keeps their taxes lower, keeps their gun rights safe, keeps gay marriage and abortion illegal, they don't care, or at least they do not understand the protection that the union gives them.
also, when scott walker talks about divide and conquer, he isn't taking rights away from police and firefighter unions (mostly male members), he only wants to disable the "teacher and nurse" union members (mostly women).
many republican AND democratic union members do not understand the full benefit of belonging to a union, and they won't fully understand it until union states become right to work states.
"They don't get us."
How long has Biden lived in DC serving as a Senator and then the VP again? The man knows about as much about the wants and needs of the common man as a groundhog knows about flying.
But he knows more then every republican alive or dead has ever known since Teddy R left the GOP.
What is funny is that a republican so, so life, a group that votes blindly and nerver worries about what will happen next, and just assuming things are going to go on as they were. They are the one I'd be worried about, not the Joe Bidens, because we will finnally be putting down the GOP together. Go ahead, take their jobs, their pentions, their healthcare, their possibilities, their education and see who really will get mad and rise up.
TM
I think it's called not paying attention and too much Fox Lies.
TM, I so agree with you. Bidden is a straight shooter and he says it like it is. Romney changes which ever the wind blows. I love the add there running here with A worker standing at the gate talking about Romney and Bain Capitol. Lets see i think is Romney will give you what he gave us NOTHING!
"What is funny is that a republican so, so life, a group that votes blindly and nerver worries about what will happen next, and just assuming things are going to go on as they were. They are the one I'd be worried about, not the Joe Bidens, because we will finnally be putting down the GOP together. Go ahead, take their jobs, their pentions, their healthcare, their possibilities, their education and see who really will get mad and rise up."
TM, you just described yourself and the entire Taker world !
"Yet you supported Reagan gee go figure an insane delusional fool who almost started WWIII.
Sir, you are completely delusional and devoid of facts or logic; It must be hell going through life as a jealous, livid Taker like yourself!
Democrats are so delusional. Biden is a social elitist that "doesn't get it". up to.
The Obama ship is sinking. Americans are finally waking up to this buffoon. He has never been more than a communist community organizer and his lack of leadership on anything of substance is "coming home to roost."
Walker will win going away. And Romney will win in a landslide. Write it down libs.....
Oh no Biden is a social elitist, ok one question, are you saying a anti social moron is a better choice?
I will say this about Joe Biden; he makes my pray daily for President Obama's continued good health. Because god forbid we ever end up with that senile old man as our CIC.
Yet you supported Reagan gee go figure an insane delusional fool who almost started WWIII.
There are no republican elistist....except romney, kock, etc, etc, etc. Like I said earlier, can't list them all on this vine, there is not enough room.
Actually, I wasn't old enough to vote until Clinton's second term. And I would have sooner chewed off my own arm than vote for Bob Dole. You know what happens when you assume, whomitmay.
And I would take a third term from Slick Willy over Obama or Romney any day. Figure that one out. Clinton was 1000 times better than Obama will ever hope to be.
Then you really can't speak about what us older folk have seen with our own eyes and what we lived through. Biden is no where near as insane as Reagan was. Nor is Biden as dumb as GWB was. Bidens biggest problem is he has a sense of humor that gets away on him as well as a tendency to speak his mind and one of those human failings that all humans have sometimes what he is thinking and what he is saying are not what he meant that could be taken as in GWB's case as stupidity or as in Bidens case as intelligence.
Yes, how dare I have a opinion about the world today that I live in and that my taxes help to support. How dare I say that things were better under Clinton than the last two Presidents combined because you want to complain about eras long past. My mistake.
John
You might try reading some history books and see just what the GOP policies have caused. Over and Over. It hasn't been godd for the country, only a very small percentage that I doubt you belong to.
You just don't seem to grasp that the GOP policies started under Reagan and nothing has changed with GOP policies since Reagan. Well actually they started with Nixon it was just Reagan was Nixon on steroids. For all of his faults Nixon was a humanitarian.
The GOP wants to create 14th century England in America, and turn it into a feudal state with a nobility that has everything and everyone else is an indentured slave working off what they owe to the landowners.
GOP policies, Larry? Lincoln abolished slavery and saved the Union. Teddy Roosevelt established the national parks system, enacted and enforced some of the first anti-trust laws, and established one of the first safe food and drug acts. Richard Nixon opened negotiations with China for the first time since the Communist Revolution. Say what you want about whomitmay, at least he only skews his opinions about the GOP with regards to the Reagan administration, for whatever reason. He clearly has personal issues in that regard. You, however, are speaking in broad generalities that are ludicrous.
Republicans operate on the old P.t. Barnum philosophy,there's a sucker born every minute.Judging from the comments by Jeff from Phoenix,it's working well.
Let's not forget the GOP's little escapade in the Watergate hotel, John. Or Reagan's deregulation of the Savings and Loan associations so they could steal the taxpayer's money (sound familiar?). And let's not forget the Iran-Contra scandal, with Reagan getting the CIA to sell cocaine so they could buy guns from the Salvadoran Contras and give them to our friends, the Iranians.
You know, the people you respect.
By the way, Neal Bush, George's younger brother, made a lot of money off of robbing the Silverado savings and loan. An omen of things to come.
Or Nixon ending trade Tariffs with Japan believing if he did it then the Japanese would follow suit. Only the Japanese did not and instead dumped a bunch of cheap autos on the market for less then US auto makers could, then when the OPEC oil embargo hit US auto makers had no small cars but Japan did. The start of the US auto problems.
Exaclty joca41, "There are two kinds of republicans, the rich and the suckers'.
And who would you be referring to?
Reagan almost started WWIII? That is the funniest thing I have heard in weeks. Gore invented the internet and Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman and Obama cut the deficit in half...... I guess the moron you were were referring to is you.
And gw almost started it again, or maybe he has and romney and friends will blow it up into the real thing.
Actually Al Gore did help the internet get started if you didn't know that, so yes in a way it can be said that Al gore invented the internet as did many others. Then you don't remember Reagan on a live broad cast with an open mic declare war on the USSR and the bombs would start falling in 24 hours. Luckily everyone was able to blow it off as a joke.
Yes, and like Gore, Romney invented Staples, and all those other companies.
ohhh lib logic.
Reagan wasn't joking, he was giving a mic test so they can calibrate the sound system. Unlike obamas just wait till after the election, or his I have to work with netenyaheu, or his spread the wealth around.
Reagan did a lot of bad things by working with tipper in the house, but at least he wasn't out to kill every job that someone wanted to start like obama is trying to do.
Reagan was in one of his delusional states caused from the dementia he was suffering from. Ah yes Reagan was stop defending the insane doddering old fool, it was Reagan who took the US off and industrial based economy and put the US on a service based economy because Reagan believed that high living wage jobs could be replaced with many low wage jobs. The problem with a service economy is as fewer and fewer workers are making a living wage it requires workers to have low interest credit in order to buy products. When the credit dries up and people stop buying the economy crashes.
But reagan didn't make it illegal to work in an industrial job. Obama is banning working in a coal mine, an oil rig, a pipe line, and OMG making musical instraments Ohh the horror, Gibson should be tared and feathered if we can just buy the carbon credits.
LOL
Someones been swilling to much tea.
What, it was romney's fbi that raided gibson's factory for daring to make musical instraments?
Can you point to which jobs obama hasn't killed off? I don't stick my head in the sand when the facts say it is raining, I get out my umbrella.
Scary ENGLISH whomitmay....... did you make it through the 3rd grade? Oh wait, you were probably educated in Wisconsin by bumbling union teachers.
Go ahead and vote for Obama. It won't make any difference. He is going to get blown out of the water by Romney. Obama is inept at best and America has figured him out finally.
Thankfulmom...... you are a total misinformed moron. Hard to believe you actually believe that horse@!$%#.
Jeff
You critisize. You don't contribute a damn thing. Do you think we really give a sh*t about you grammer and spelling critisism? Shove it.
Oh I see a storm sock puppet post.
I've noticed that the righties on this blog like to predict their winning the election. Almost like they're trying to talk themselves into it.
I guess after the election they won't be blogging anymore. And liquor sales are going to go waaaaaay up.
No they will still be blogging and whining just not as much as they are now.
What do you say we all give MD/MI first crack at the poll question?
We can't stop the Supreme Courts ruling. But we can do this!
http://www.change.org/petitions/major-media-companies-stop-accepting-money-from-superpacs
Way to GO JOE !! Call it for real and true. The only things Joe got wrong, WRONG? Yes wrong, I know joe was being gracious BUT - Romney is NOT a patriot, he and the rest of the GOPTEA are actually insurectionests and traitors, he is not a great contributor to anything but the Mormon "church", in fact he is a vulture capitalist that has been the purveyor of bankruptcy and sorrow to THOUSANDS of Bain victims. He may be a loving husband and father, so what, the country is filled with them. I apologize, these treasonists just piss me off; the VP got it right, it is we the people, we the middle and lower classes that do the working and sacrificing in this country and these paid of humps want US to give up everything to pay off the debt THEY created - WTF ! The people in this country better wake up before they make a voting decision from the town to federal elections, just voting for the ones that make the most noise with their lies and rhetoric is not the answer. Get the facts, NOT from FOX or Flush, but from places that actually will give non-partisan facts. Do the homework, get the truth, it's YOUR country and these liars want to put us into a depression, as Romney calls it "THE RESET BUTTON" - Resetting YOUR lives with poverty being the new start. It won't hurt them, they'll stay rich and we'll stay poorer than poor forever - There is NO "reset" button for us to push.
You guys use to worry about Palin becoming president if she were vp. Can you imagine this joker becoming president if something happened to Obama?
Talk about in trouble. We are not in any trouble now compared to where we would be if the big gaffer were in charge. No, I take that back. This country is in trouble now because of the last 3.6 years.
Lets change it at the ballot box come November. Mitt Romney for President. Let get this country back on track and let the Obamas move to California and smooze with the booze of Hollywood.
Remember, God intented for the sacred institute of marriage to be between one man and one woman. And a healthy family to come from that. You lefties know down deep in your heart that is right.
Come over from the dark side. There is hope for you whomitmay. Thankfulmom....you are not who you say you are....no more talking to you.
If your parents are one man and one woman...which I seriously doubt, it's pretty obvious there's no guarantee of a healthy family.
Look at the Bush family. The entire family's insane.
I am the son of one man and one woman. They have been married 59 years and still going. Very proud of them. Does not make me better than anyone. I am a single dad myself with a 10 year old. That is just the way I believe. I believe in God, the Bible which is God's word and have faith in God.
It always amazes me, this belief in the bible. You do know it was written by your fellow human beings, don't you?
By the way, just for laughs, when christ was alone on the cross, who wrote it down?
Wouldn't you be if you had the likes of obama as a relative?
No it would be worse if he found out he was a part of your gene pool. But being liberal he would find a way to get rid of that contamination before he procreated.
Unlike clinton, I KNOW where my gene have been.
A farmyard?
LMAO. Liked that one, but you won't let me marry my true love will you?
Your just an alpacaphobe.
Johnny, God also intended for men to have as many wives as they could afford, and in the biblical days and eons after, marriage was also intended for treaties between countries, and for men to sell off their daughters to the highest bidder,oh and let us not forget for political gain.And infertal couples cannot reproduce they most like marry for love of each other.Deep down, you rightees know this is true.
I am not talking about old testament law. I am talking about when God sent his son to earth...........walked on this earth...crucified, buried, and rose on the third day.
I have faith in God. It is my belief based on NT scripture that God ordained marriage between a man and a woman. When I say one....I mean one at a time....I think you know what I mean. I am not a "rightie" I am saddened that our President now believes this way. I believe it will hurt his chances of re-election. I am a conservative Christian man. I happen to think that Obama has been very bad for our country in too many ways to mention here.
I believe right will prevail and he will be voted out in November. I have deep respect for you also. Thanks.
Mitt Romney is a Venus Fly trap...he searches for and catches struggling companies....feeds off the flesh of the workers.... spits them out with nothing. If elected president this is what the middle class, working poor and the very poor can expect. Mitt Romney is not about putting meat on the bones of any one but the 1% .....his filthy rich friends.
Interesting Biden goes to a state run by a Republican to point out what he calls an Obama success story. Obama is responsible for all 50 states not any individual state. The credit for the successes in Ohio goes to the Governor, not Obama. If Obama is responsible for Ohio, isn't he also responsible for the failing states. I would like to see him come to California and take credit for 16 billion shortfall and the high unemployment rate we have here.
Is that all ya got?? Don't forget the President is the anti-Christ. LOL
Wow, GOD, and the antiChrist. No wonder he needs all those vacations. I didn't realize he was working TWO jobs like the rest of us.
This changes everything..... Vote out obama he needs the rest, he has another job so can handle loosing this thankless one.
Your boy bush set the all time record for vacation days away from the white house at 499days. Your other boy ronnie raygun comes in second place. If I where you I would think before you make an ignorant statement, woops too late!
You can thank, cheat on his wife with the maid Arnold the republican pig for that......
Vice President Joe Biden is on "Fire"!!! The Platzner Post Facebook, and Twitter
Time of biden to have his warm milk and cookies.
Really you should stop eating sour grapes, they are effecting your brains higher functions and you are becoming more delusional with each post.
NObama in 2012....Yes we can do better!!
See ya at the polls dufus!
rufus.....Do you expect christians to vote for the Cult worshiper Romney? A true christian won't do it. We will grow stronger in 2012 when president Oama is re-elected. you need to come over from the dark side.
Obama/Bidden 2012
Well unless obama banned all the retraining hospitals already, mittens can be "cured".
Doesn't christ teach us to give a hand to help the homeless? romney's home doesn't even have a working elevator yet. the poor sap. And to give him a job to raise his self esteam just seems the christian thing to do. It isn't like the job is being done by anyone else right now.
Joe Biden is a whack job.....
That's why Obama has him around.....
Another classic example of "They just don't get it'!
I don't understand why the DNC hasn't supported the efforts in Wisconsin. Maybe you should send Joe Biden. If the reports are right I am alarmed as to why some unions are now supporting Walker.
Just look who is running the DNC... LOL
It will be cool if the jury returns a guilty verdict on sleazeball John Edwards tomorrow.
If he's guilty then he deserves it. And what would you teabaggers reaction be if walker is brought up on charges? We'll he'll be your hero of course. FOS as usual.
AR
the John Edwards trial is another example of a repub trying to bring a democrat down.
repubs had a trial and falsely imprisoned a popular democratic alabama governor, because they wanted a republican governor. this was all driven by the bush administration.
Don Siegelman was falsely imprisoned for 3 years.
this is what repubs do.
Slacker....President Obama is doing his job and the truth is he will do a better one when cry baby John and his do nothing congress get voted out this year. The speaker's ovaries are a little too high..................
It's instrument.....you are welcome.
Thanks, I was to tiered to look it up, never liked the english classes, and can't play a radio.....
But congress is passing plenty of good bills, and budgets. Need to get rid of reid and his do nothing senate.
How can the speakers ovaries be high? Did OK pass a maryjane law? He is a eunich, they are in a jar somewhere for when he is buried.
Well not one vote for any of his budgets, when is he going to wake up no one likes his plans. He needs to find better pollers, and find out what the people want. When even B. Sanders votes against your plans to spend us into bankruptcy, you know they are bad.
What bills are they passing, save a frog in the rain forest? He doesn't need to do anything. Crack head Eric Cantor is throwing him under the bus as I write.
Ovaries make you cry....they have cyst on them, they hurt, they are a breeding ground for ovarian cancer.......Boehner has high ovaries they are in his eyes....he knows women need good health care to keep these little suckers healthy.... and he cries and cries and cries.................................
what on earth is biden talking about.....have you people seen bidens tax statement? have you seen bidens mansion in the DC burbs....isn't he talking about himself? have you not seen that he gives nothing to charity? this man is a hypocrit who just blabbers and doesn't know what he is saying.
Or if you believe in the good of humanity...
Biden gives it all, just doesn't take it off his taxes because it is patriotic to pay them.
I don't, I think it is a case of he can't find any worthwhile charities. Guess he never met Rev Wright.