Biden: ‘bin Laden is dead, and GM is alive’

[kpete]

WASHINGTON — US Vice President Joe Biden spelled out a blunt reelection message for his boss President Barack Obama on Tuesday — “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”

Biden’s comment at a Texas fundraiser came as Obama stepped up his drive to claim credit for rescuing the iconic US car industry, as he took a spin around the Washington auto show and declared “the US auto industry is back.”

The vice president boiled down Obama’s State of the Union message into some pithy sound bites at a fundraiser in Fort Worth expected to raise more than $150,000 dollars for the reelection campaign.

Biden hailed Obama as a champion of America’s hard-pressed middle classes as they emerge from the deepest recession since the 1930s and said the president had kept his promise to pull US troops out of Iraq.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/31/biden-bin-laden-is-dead-and-gm-is-alive/

[onehandle]

1. Nice way to put it in a nutshell. George 'Lost bin Laden' Bush and Mitt 'Let GM Die' Romney...

...is all we can expect from the opposition.

Get it, America?

[BeyondGeography]

2. I like that they're not being shy about Bin Laden

Of course, it's all poll-tested and they know what they're doing, but might as well make the most of it.

[bayareaboy]

3. let me count the ways De Puglecant's ... ...

Will twist this one around. So do you figure this is a say the bile you have in their lower GIs, or do you figure that someone will project orders for the unwashed masses.

I figure the talking points will work in this story.

[thelordofhell]

4. And republicans wanted it the other way around

They wanted GM dead and bin Laden sill alive to scare the masses

[warrior1]

5. right on Joe

[tridim]

6. That would be a good line to use with your republican friends.

Be sure to wear eye-protection when their head explodes.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Good line to use in the campaign, Joe.

[2pooped2pop]

8. Not a bad bumper sticker either. n/t

[waddirum]

9. Great messaging -- short and succinct

I'm glad that Democrats are no longer stepping on their own dicks trying to explain their message.

[groundloop]

10. One of President Obama's biggest "faults" has been his reluctance to toot his own horn.

Now that it's silly season it's good to hear our band playing more often. And in general I don't see modesty as a fault, but in this case SOMEONE needs to be cheer-leading so that people will remember President Obama's many accomplishments come November.

[AtomicKitten]

11. I like it. Short and sweet.

[DCBob]

12. Nice! Makes a good sig line.

see below..

[JDPriestly]

13. K&R

[iandhr]

14. STOCK TO EM Mr. Vice President

[Uncle Joe]

15. I'm happy that GM has rebounded but it's not alive, it never was, it's just a corporation.

I hate seeing this intermingling of human life and corporate existence as being one and the same, even if it's just sound bite or bumper sticker talk.

That's the problem with the "Citizens United" decision and the rise of corporate supremacy over the people and their representative government since the late 19th century.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[MattSh]

16. The Bin Laden part works well for the unthinking masses, I guess...

But people who think understand that Bin Laden being dead in no way helps the average American.

In fact, if Bin Laden was still alive, my guess is that you would be hearing a lot less about Iran's "despicable" behavior.

[Vogon_Glory]

17. Ohh, the Right DOESN'T Like That!

Radical Righties and their buddies in the GOP REALLY don't like being reminded that Barack Obama was the guy who took out Osama bin Laden after eight years of failure by Republican Team Shrub.

Considering the trouble that the President is also causing Somali pirates, would it be too much to claim that one of the pirate's vessels is called "Tea-haddi"?