Help End The Obama Era In 2012
Your Monthly and Quarterly Donations
Help Keep FR In the Battle!
Sponsoring FReepers are contributing
$10 Each time a New Monthly Donor signs up!
Get more bang for your FR buck!
Click Here To Sign Up Now!
Posted on 08/22/2012 5:11:56 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Vice President Joe Biden: ‘Detroit’s Getting Back Up’
DETROIT – Revving up a crowd at a Detroit high school, Vice President Joe Biden offered up one of his father’s old adages to illustrate the tenacity the people of Detroit possess as their city works to recover from the crisis in the auto industry.
“My dad used to say you measure a man or woman – it wasn’t whether they got knocked down, but how quickly they got up. And guess what? Detroit’s getting back up,” Biden told an estimated crowd of 1,100 packed into a narrow hallway at Renaissance High School Wednesday.
Detroit’s unemployment rate remains more than a point above the national average, sitting at 9.7 percent in June, but over the past three years, the unemployment rate in the city has decreased dramatically from its 27.8 percent rate in July 2009. Michigan’s unemployment rate rose last month, jumping from 8.6 percent in June to 9 percent in July.
Biden, who called Mitt Romney a “decent” man despite boos emanating from the crowd, knocked the presumptive GOP nominee for the 2008 New York Times op-ed he penned with the headline “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,” saying that the president’s approach to dealing with the auto industry proved successful.
“In spite of Gov. Romney’s insistence that we let Detroit go bankrupt, we rescued the automobile industry,” Biden said.
The Romney campaign claimed Biden’s comments about Detroit’s turnaround are “out of touch.”
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Wheelchair or not.
But it’s in China!
Stand Up Detroit! Oh, what am I talking about? Let’s all stand up for Detroit!
Detroit got up?...So the dead do rise from the grave??? I live here, you would think I would have noticed???..........
“My old pappy always told me that it takes big feet to jump a puddle.”
I don’t understand how anyone can be proud to be a democrat.
The Democrat party Vice President of the United States could only gather 1,100 supporters in union-heavy Michigan? Hahahahahaha! Tell me again how Obama/Biden are leading Romney/Ryan in all the polls! Will they ride into the convention center on the back of the Loch Ness monster, flanked by a squad of Sasquatch riding unicorns?
If he means waking up at 10:30 am and wondering down to the mailbox for a welfare check, then he’s probably right.
Can’t make it up...........
And they continue to spew the most blatant lies because there is a sufficient percentage of ignoramuses out there that vote democrat who eat this stuff up. Progressive mind candy...
And Chrysler is nothing more than a Fiat owned nameplate, with many of its top cars like the Charger, Challenger, and 300 built outside the US.
11 o’clock is the time for welfare recipients to get up.
I live here too Joe and you are a damn dreamer, my friend. He’s probably a nice guy but, wow, how misinformed.
They’re holding campaign rallies in hallways?
“Stand up, Chuck......”
They didn't rescue Detroit. Somebody else made that happen.
They didn't rescue Detroit. Somebody else made that happen.
Detroit is getting (government .. taxpayer dollars) BACKUP
Detroit's gettin' backup.
Not back up
(They ain't no one THERE to GET up)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.