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APNewsBreak: Top Biden aide lays out potential 2016 platform (restoring middle-class opportunity)
AP via MSN ^ | 10/16/15 | JOSH LEDERMAN

Posted on 10/16/2015 12:53:48 AM PDT by Libloather

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden would run an optimistic and unscripted "campaign from the heart" based on restoring middle-class opportunity, one of his top political advisers said Thursday, laying out for the first time the argument Biden would make if he runs for president.

Former Delaware Sen. Ted Kaufman, one of Biden's closest political advisers, said Biden would soon make a decision about whether to enter the race. In an email obtained by The Associated Press, Kaufman asked former staffers to stay in close contact and said Biden would need their help immediately if he enters the race.

"If he runs, he will run because of his burning conviction that we need to fundamentally change the balance in our economy and the political structure to restore the ability of the middle class to get ahead," Kaufman said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; biden; delaware; election2016; joebiden; joshlederman; rats; shotgun; tedkaufman
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"A campaign from the heart. A campaign consistent with his values, our values, and the values of the American people," Kaufman said. "And I think it's fair to say, knowing him as we all do, that it won't be a scripted affair — after all, it's Joe."

Jimmy Fallon move over. Say, I thought the middle class was already taken care of. Or is he talking about more free stuff?

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1 posted on 10/16/2015 12:53:49 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
“If he runs, he will run because of his burning conviction that we need to fundamentally change the balance in our economy and the political structure to restore the ability of the middle class to get ahead,”

I think that “burning conviction” is just a euphemism for a urinary tract infection. Wearing Depends will do that! So Joe, please tell us, isn't what you're saying what you and Bambi have done these past seven years?

2 posted on 10/16/2015 1:00:13 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387
Biden will pretend to be a Trump-clone.

He'll be a Trump-wannabe

3 posted on 10/16/2015 1:05:35 AM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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To: vette6387

Sooooo, as Vice president, didn’t he have some say in the last eight years?


4 posted on 10/16/2015 1:12:35 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Libloather
""If he runs, he will run because of his burning conviction that we need to fundamentally change the balance in our economy and the political structure to restore the ability of the middle class to get ahead," Kaufman said.

Any forthcoming explanations of where the middle class has been for about a decade?


5 posted on 10/16/2015 1:13:03 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Libloather

He’s right! We need to have MORE OPTIMISTIC ABORTIONS!


6 posted on 10/16/2015 1:35:28 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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To: Libloather

I think Joe Biden will run. I think he’s under immense pressure from Obama’s group: Valery, Michelle and probably Al Sharpton. They either don’t think Hillary can win, or they have never liked her for opposing Obama in 2007, and still see her as an adversary.

I think after Joe does declare, he and Hillary will do many duo interviews together, acting all cozy and trusting of the other. when the truth will be quite the opposite. Hillary won’t be able to wait to throw the first rhetorical punch. Although she will probably have one of her people do the dirty deed, and allow her to simply react to Joe’s response of lack thereof.


7 posted on 10/16/2015 1:40:24 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: donna

I hope he debates Trump and does that stupid, forced ha-ha-ha laugh every time he’s asked a a question again.


8 posted on 10/16/2015 1:55:20 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Libloather

See a doctor Joe, they can take care of that “burning conviction” for you.
Couple doses of penicillin and you’ll be right as rain!

And you can afford it as *we* are paying so you can see *any* doctor you want.
Unlike us “little people”.


9 posted on 10/16/2015 2:03:57 AM PDT by oldvirginian (I question all things political each day and reach the same conclusion. I stand with Ted Cruz!)
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To: Libloather
So ol' Joe is going to "restore middle class opportunity", eh?

That would be the same "middle class opportunity" that he's actively helped to destroy over the last six-plus years.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

10 posted on 10/16/2015 2:18:45 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: Joe Brower

If he wants to restore the middle class, he will start out by repealing ObamaCare.

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11 posted on 10/16/2015 2:50:28 AM PDT by Richard from IL
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To: Libloather

So he is going to run as Obama 3 or against Obama?


12 posted on 10/16/2015 3:40:07 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Libloather

In a state of flaming liberals, Ted Kaufman is at the head of his class. I have worked with him, attended the same church building argued with him and he is not someone who tolerates any view but his own.

For him to spout off about Joe Insurance Policy and his supposed values, is to believe the opposite.


13 posted on 10/16/2015 3:43:37 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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“Restore” middle class opportunity? What’s he been doing these past eight ....even this past quarter century, in congress????

Go ahead, Joe .... Run, you congressional fossil .... Trump will make stew out of you!!


14 posted on 10/16/2015 3:48:26 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: Libloather

Uh oh...another “fundamental change” artist...look out!


15 posted on 10/16/2015 4:03:07 AM PDT by FrankR
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To: Libloather
Vice President Joe Biden would run an optimistic and unscripted "campaign from the heart."

It sure as Hell wouldn't be a campaign from the brain.


16 posted on 10/16/2015 4:10:04 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Joe Brower

Middle class opportunity? Drive by GM Boxwood plant in Wilmington, DE - Closed since 2009; rotting away. Or the Chrysler plant in Newark, DE - Closed since 2009; University of Delaware paid $24.25 million (property was worth upwards of $1 billion (24 acres, building and machinery).

Is that the “middle class opportunity” they’re talking about?


17 posted on 10/16/2015 4:20:38 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Libloather. Hitlery lost the debate, despite having the panelists carrying her water and giving her the most time; Sanders beat her, but ultimately is just another drone after his stupid talking-point remarks about her CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR. All Biden has to do is say the word, and her campaign will start a precipitous decline. She has the Demwit women, Joe has the homosexuals.

18 posted on 10/16/2015 4:28:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Libloather

This like an announcement from a fox that under his administration, “better safer locks would be installed in the chicken coop.”


19 posted on 10/16/2015 5:36:19 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Libloather

Biden’s a liar like the rest of the democrats. If democrats gave a damn about the middle class we would have seen some proof of that in the past 7 years.

It’s just a lie to get elected.

Oh, and blacks will get ‘their piece of the pie’ too... Really, this time democrats really really really mean it.


20 posted on 10/16/2015 9:24:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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