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Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:26 PM May 2016

So exactly how is Biden going to explain this when campaigning for Clinton?

Biden: The middle class does NOT have a fighting chance because of money controlling politics

I believe the huge sums of unlimited and often secret money pouring into our politics is a fundamental threat to our Democracy, and I really believe that. I think it's a fundamental threat, because the middle class will never have a fighting chance in this country as long as just several hundred families, the wealthiest families, control the process. It's just that simple. And I believe that we have to level the playing field for the American people. And that's going to take access to education and opportunity to work.

SO is Biden supposed to say to middle class Americans, sorry you don't have a fighting chance but vote for Hilary anyway?

I would be surprised if the GOP didn't run this as an ad in PA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/21/full-text-bidens-announcement-that-he-wont-run-for-president/

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Jennylynn

(696 posts)
1. LOL, ok. You guys gotta stop using the popcorn whatchamacallit.
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:29 PM
May 2016

It's too cute and ruins my outrage at whatever was posted!! Lol

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
2. Because Biden is an actual member of the party, and we work to support our own
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:30 PM
May 2016

despite disagreements on some issues.

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
7. In fact, I did answer it
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:36 PM
May 2016

Biden will stump for Hillary because she is his party's candidate for president. The differences the two may have, if there are even differences at all, do not matter in the fall, when real Democrats bury their differences for the sake of the bigger picture.

 

highprincipleswork

(3,111 posts)
5. Good point. What do you do when your position is increasingly illogical, corrupt, hypocritical,
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:32 PM
May 2016

wrong and ineffective? Exactly what we see from the DNC and the Democratic Party all the time.

Vichy Democrats, trying to drown out the voices of others. Now in this case I'm not saying that Hillary and her supporters are like Nazis. They are kind of like compromised and subjugated Vichy Democrats.

What if we all just get up and sing a song?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/17/politics/primary-results-highlights/index.html


xx

Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
8. As they have opened the floodgates to corporate money via speeches, contributions to Super Pacs and
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:38 PM
May 2016

the Clinton Foundation, and to actually put on the Democratic Convention. I'm sure that will convince them

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