As Democrats ponder their future, Joe Biden makes a plea for a focus on the middle class

L A Times ^ | 12/22/16 | Michael A. Memoli

[The_Media_never_lie]

Over a career in elected public office lasting more than 46 years, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has seen campaigns from the rudimentary, family-run effort that first launched him unexpectedly to the U.S. Senate as a 29-year-old to the sophisticated, data-driven juggernaut that helped elect him and Barack Obama twice to the nation’s highest offices.

But rarely has he trusted anything as much as his own gut instinct, attuned to the middle- and working-class sensibilities of his former neighbors in towns like Scranton, Pa., and Claymont, Del.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Joe Bidet characterized as a sophisticated, data-driver juggernaut? This is so funny I had to post it. Talk about sucking up......

[Cicero]

Robinette?

[SaveFerris]

[ Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has seen campaigns from the rudimentary, family-run effort that first launched him unexpectedly to the U.S. Senate as a 29-year-old to the sophisticated, data-driven juggernaut that helped elect him and Barack Obama twice to the nation’s highest offices. ]

Yes, and thanks a lot for that. It's been a whole lot of fun. /s

[Cen-Tejas]

...........LOL............here’s the LA Times, head cheerleader for the methodical destruction of the Democratic Party in the Obama era, now trying to huff and puff ole Joe Biden, the biggest loser in American Political History after Obama and Hillary. 1,600 elective Democrat seats nationwide have switched to Republican during JOe’s time in office and this is all the LA Times can think of to say!!!

[doc maverick]

Biden needs to be put out to pasture.......he’s had 8 years to help the middle class and has done the opposite.

[Grimmy]

Any time I hear a destructionist blathering about how they’re going to help the ‘middle class’, I get a...

“Its for the children! Won’t you lets us have your children?!” automatic translation.

[faithhopecharity]

Biden is, of course, correct about this...from a D party politics perspective he’s right.

BUT how does he propose to transform (or recover) the D party so that it stops destroying American workers’ jobs?

the internationalist IslamoNazi cabal that’s seized control of the D party machine... would never tolerate anything in the D party again...that actually helps Americans or builds up America’s economic strength and jobs, again

[Montaignes Cat]

The Democrats can SAY the words, but who will believe them, now that more people are wise to their faked sincerity.

[HarleyLady27]

The Middle Class? Joe Biden? Really? You lost ‘us deplorables’ a long time ago, are we going back to what we just voted to get out of? HELL NO!!!

If you, Joe ‘Uncle Joe and his hands’ Biden had any brains at all he would go back to his swimming pool and swim his idiotic life away...we ‘deplorables’ won’t miss you one bit!!!

[alloysteel]

If the Democrats want to find the way back to America again, call in Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, whom you may recall was attempting to take over the slot of Minority Leader from Nanacy Pelosi here recently. There is a much bigger thing going on with the Democrats than just merely losing a series of elections. They have bargained away their very soul.

Still, there should be a minority party with a hunger to become a majority party, and the way to do that is to respond to the voice of the electorate, and get back around to the head of the parade.

If not the Democrats, well, whoever are their successors and assigns.

[Hardastarboard]

No,no, no Joe!! The Democrat Party needs to loudly and proudly go hard, hard left! You all know you want to! It’s what you and the American people want. Just do it!

[ModelBreaker]

Translation: Lie and make a small percentage of middle class voters think D’s care about them.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I agree, the democrat party needs to go hard left. The need the politicians who would be proud to have a picture of Che on their desk. Keith Ellison would be a great dnc head.

[Paladin2]

Folk You, Double barrel....

[snarkytart]

It isn’t just about the economy. It’s also about a political party that is all about identity politics, fascistic speech codes, anti western anti white propaganda, and of course anti local law enforcement, all while embracing open borders and refugees. SJW and BLM didn’t help their party.

[Intolerant in NJ]

‘Rats have been focused on the middle class - driving up their power costs with green energy initiatives; destroying their jobs with open importation of cheap competing labor, wars on the coal industry, and destructive regulations; and scrambling of their medical care with Obamacare - that’s what helped cost them the election.....

[The_Media_never_lie]

‘Rats have been focused on the middle class - driving up their power costs with green energy initiatives; destroying their jobs with open importation of cheap competing labor, wars on the coal industry, and destructive regulations; and scrambling of their medical care with Obamacare - that’s what helped cost them the election.....

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It has been frustrating to watch all the coal plants being shuttered with 30+ years of useful life left in favor of uneconomical green power. Such a waste. Many, if not most in the US, have state of the art pollution systems. If global warm is indeed man made and a threat, it still would take years for a calamity to occur. Eco hysteria.

[Intolerant in NJ]

If global warm is indeed man made and a threat, it still would take years for a calamity to occur...real irony is that even the warmists admit that if everything they want to see happen in "climate control" were to take place they'd succeed in lowering the temperature fifty years from now by less than one degree - the whole global warming thing is a scam to extort money from countries with advanced economies thriving on fossil fuels which are deemed evil and give those funds to poorer, less developed countries - the usual rob the rich to give to the poor, redistribute the wealth crap pushed by the self-appointed morally-superiors of the world....