US Vice President Joe Biden, throwing punches as a warrior for the middle class,
plunged into the 2012 election race Thursday, hailing President Barack Obama as
a man with "steel in his spine." (AFP Photo/Yuri Cortez)
Posted on 03/16/2012 8:54:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
US Vice President Joe Biden, throwing punches as a warrior for the middle class, plunged into the 2012 election race Thursday, hailing President Barack Obama as a man with "steel in his spine."
Obama meanwhile launched his own political barbs, mocking Republicans who oppose his energy plans as "naysayers" on a day his reelection campaign stepped up a notch with the release of a laudatory documentary on his presidency.
Biden praised Obama for rescuing US auto companies with an unpopular $80 billion bailout opposed by many Republicans, but which has nursed America's iconic industry back to health.
And standing before union workers in the crucial swing state of Ohio, he personally slammed leading Republican candidate Mitt Romney for writing a 2008 New York Times article headlined "Let Detroit go bankrupt."
"But the guy I work with, every day, the president, didn't flinch. This is a man with steel in his spine," Biden said, saying Obama rescued the American auto sector even though it was unpopular.
"He wasn't going to give up on a million jobs, and the iconic industry America invented. At least he wasn't going to give it up without a fight.
"He made the tough call, and the verdict is in, President Obama is right and they were dead wrong."
Biden named all three remaining Republican candidates, Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum in his speech, promoting himself and Obama as fighters for a middle class struggling in an economy weighted against them.
"If you give any one of these guys the keys to the White House, they will bankrupt the middle class again," Biden said.
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man of 'steal' is more like it..
US Vice President Joe Biden, throwing punches as a warrior for the middle class,
plunged into the 2012 election race Thursday, hailing President Barack Obama as
a man with "steel in his spine." (AFP Photo/Yuri Cortez)
Wheres that picture of BO hanging curtains when you need it.
BHO man of steal
JB head of lead
Sometimes these things are just too easy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
There Biden goes, talking about Reggie Love and Obama's relationship again...
Joseph STALIN was a “Man of Steel”.
Barry OBAMA is a “Man of Steal” — a thief and a fraud supported by the Donkeys, RINOs, and MSM.
Interesting choice of words, when you consider what has happened to the steel industry in the United States.
Is Biden trying to connect him to lost industry, lost jobs, a bygone era?
What is a man of steel these days?
A hallowed out shell of what he used to be?
Almost non-existent in the real world?
Someone who sees himself as something he is not?
Someone who pretends to be something he is not?
Someone who was imported, but we don’t like to talk about it?
Perhaps Obama is a man of steel after all, and that may say far more about him than what eBiden had intended.
Man of stealing.
Uncle Joe is an enigma of a nutjob wrapped in libspeak. His brain stent backs up sumthin’ fierce sometimes.. that and too much Bill Maher maybe.
speaking of steel.. They’ll be racing Nascar in the old Kaiser Steel plants ‘hood next week-end.. an uncle worked there years ago.
Can’t wait to see Maher and Biden try and crash the party.. Here’s to blue skies.. ;-]
I hear ya... and agree wholeheartedly.
We’ve had some light weights on our side too, but ours look like Mensa candidates by comparison.
I’d be afraid to send Joe Biden out in the back yard to feed the dog without a handler. Obama picked him, because he knew Biden would make him look smart by comparison.
Say what you want about Bush, and I have ;^), he picked an accomplished man as his Vice-President. Look at the comparison Biden vs Cheney.
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