The Romney campaign is calling Joe Biden’s comment about the middle class being “buried for the past four years” a gaffe, and it does fit the criteria of “accidental-honesty.” There’s no doubt the middle class has been hit hard under the current administration, which is why the Obama campaign is having such a difficult time cleaning up after Biden’s comment. They can’t claim Biden is wrong (or they’ll seem out of touch), but they obviously can’t acknowledge he’s right.
The solution? Agree with Biden’s assessment that the middle class has been buried for the past four years, but blame it all on Bush:
“As the Vice President has been saying all year and again in his remarks today, the middle class was punished by the failed Bush policies that crashed our economy – and a vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is a return to those failed policies,” an Obama campaign official said. “With more than five million private-sector jobs created since 2010, the Vice President and President Obama will continue to help the middle class recover and move the nation forward.”
No surprise, Biden’s comment is barely registering with the mainstream press, except as evidence of how desperate the Romney campaign must be to make an issue out of it. After the media let Biden slide for his blatant racial pandering, what else would we expect? If Paul Ryan had made a similar allusion to slavery, the press would still be talking about it today (if he hadn’t been forced to drop out of the race, that is). Instead, Biden gets front-page investigations into whether he’s a “sex symbol.” Because, you know, it’s not like there’s any serious news to cover this week.
Whatever the Democrats do, seems to be working very well. The RealClear results from the states, even excluding the normally heavy blue ones, like RI, are very discouraging. It's even worse than I would have thought. I'm really at a loss for words to explain such a potential Obama landslide. Sorry.
So you've fallen for the polls that have Obama surpassing 2008 numbers and the same polls that have over sampled democrats over republicans and lets not forget the same polls that mysteriously tightened in the last few days.
there you go again….for the umpteenth time…….there is no way- NO WAY- that this is any kind of landslide on either side…..51-49 my opinion and no one knows yet who wins. stop your lamenting !
Sorry, friends, but a dybbuk(small demon)made me do it. Actually, my point was not to convey doom and gloom, but to express my bafflement and frustration over how Obama et al Ds get away with such nonsense, let along an atrocious record; something I would guess many of you share. But since you went after my doom and gloom scenario………..Another bafflement. Yes, some of the national polls have tightened, but those state polls have shown Obama's lead widening.
which makes all these polls so weird..how can the two candidates be neck and neck nationally- yet Obama leads (substantially in some polls) in battleground states? I put my faith in Rasmussen -Obama 48, Romney 47 nationally- and a tight race everywhere. Still everything to aim for. BTW- the Gallup poll that shows Obama 50, Romney 45 nationally is for REGISTERED VOTERS-always a bad basis for prognostication. Stick to likely voters.
The real crime here is the amount of lost comedic gold that, if he were a Republican, would be stripmined for all it was worth. This guy is the living embodiment of a facepalm… lol
Good ole Biden is a gaffe machine, of course the middle class is buried under Obama, his policies are a disaster.
It was Slow Joe, Gittes. It's Chinatown.
It is a fascinating rhetorical trick Obama's campaign pulled off. On the one hand Obama is the Maximum Steward of Infinite Prosperity! and on the other the GOP is evil for 'abandoning the millions upon millions of Americans who are suffering through this horrid economy!' n n nBoth of those things can't be true.
Bravo — future historians may well look to Ms. Goodman's last three lines as the eulogy of the mainstream American media – it isn't like there is any serious news to cover this week/month/year….