Posted on 06/19/2012 10:32:51 PM PDT by SmithL
Vice President Joe Biden was in town this afternoon. Here's The Bee's pool report from the event:
Vice President Joe Biden arrived before 3 p.m. - a bit earlier than expected - at a fundraiser at the Sutter Club, near the state Capitol in downtown Sacramento.
Pool was ushered into the hall about 3:17 p.m., just in time to hear Gov. Jerry Brown at the podium ahead of Biden. Biden started speaking about three minutes later to a crowd of about 130 people.
"Nothing has changed," Biden said of Brown, who was governor before from 1975 to 1983. Biden said he met Brown in San Francisco in the 1970s. He said, "He was the smartest guy in American politics then. He's still the smartest guy in American politics."
"He speaks his mind," Biden said, and the crowd laughed when he said, "I like guys like that."
Biden said the fundamental question of the campaign is, "Are we going to restore the American middle class?"
"It's a simple proposition: When the middle class does well, the poor have a shot, and the wealthy do very well. When the middle class is not doing well, and atrophies, the poor, they're in trouble, and only a certain part of the super-wealthy do very well."
Biden said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm all for people being wealthy. It's a good thing; it's not a bad thing. I come from the state of Delaware, one of the wealthiest states in America, and I have never played this populist card because I don't believe it. Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people. But the truth is it doesn't trickle down."
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Everyone looks smart to Slow Joe......
When you are dumb as Plugs everyone looks smart.
When you are dumb as Plugs everyone looks smart.
Didn’t he say the same thing about Corzine?
Dumb and Dumber
Coming from plugs that’s nothing to brag about.
When you are as dumb as a box of rocks(Biden), a package of sliced baloney(Brown) looks intelligent.
My brother came to visit me in the hospital last year. We got around to talking politics - dangerous ground for us. He made an off-handed, unsolicited remark, saying Biden was one of the smartest guys he’d ever seen. I put up my hand and said, “Bro, we just can’t talk politics anymore. Can it.” He is a big Obozo fan. My sisters, on the other hand, are good solid conservatives.
Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people. But the truth is it doesn’t trickle down.
Poverty does trickle down and Obama&Co, have proved it for the last 3 1/2 years.
Where does that leave our fearless leader, Barak?
Out of office and hopefully out of country.
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