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Joe Biden: 'We Get More Credit Sometimes Than We Deserve'
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Posted on 01/18/2014 6:59:11 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Joe Biden: 'We Get More Credit Sometimes Than We Deserve' Jeryl Bier January 18, 2014 9:26 AM

Vice President Joe Biden addressed the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Thursday and reminisced about the state of the industry before and after the Obama administration came into office. He observed that the steep decline in auto sales during President Obama's first year in office "had nothing to do with us ... we get more credit sometimes than we deserve." It appears Biden was using "credit" ironically, suggesting the critics of the president hold him responsible for things that were outside his ability to control.

Here are his remarks in context:

My mother -- my deceased wife used to say that the greatest gift God gave mankind, and she meant it, was the ability to forget -- I'm being serious - think about it -- the greatest gift is the ability to forget, to forget the bad things and focus on the good. The good news is American public had already forgotten how tough it was in '07, '08, '09 and the good news is that we're back. Car sales, when we took office -- it had nothing to do with us -- in 2009 - I don't mean -- we, we get more credit sometimes than we deserve - in 2009, they plunged 40% in a single year.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: detroit; michigan
Somebody put a name tag on him and drop him off at the nearest bus stop..........
1 posted on 01/18/2014 6:59:11 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Biden getting ANY credit is more than he deserves.


2 posted on 01/18/2014 7:00:07 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Sub-Driver
...we get more credit sometimes than we deserve...

The hell you say.

Whatever improvement the auto industry has seen is DESPITE your efforts, not because of them.

3 posted on 01/18/2014 7:03:41 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Sub-Driver

Biden/Imbecile


4 posted on 01/18/2014 7:09:36 AM PST by Main Street (Stuck in traffic.)
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5 posted on 01/18/2014 7:10:23 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Sub-Driver
Joe Biden: 'We Get More Credit Sometimes Than We Deserve'

True if he is talking about banking credit. What fool would give this idiot and his boss $17 trillion in loans and an unlimited line of credit for a while.

6 posted on 01/18/2014 7:11:52 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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7 posted on 01/18/2014 7:33:23 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Sub-Driver

when is somebody going to ask Slow Joe why the Chrysler plant in Newark, Del was closed. Hundreds of workers in his backyard lost their jobs.


8 posted on 01/18/2014 7:36:28 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: ETL
Fredo Biden too funny !!!!
9 posted on 01/18/2014 7:37:29 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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10 posted on 01/18/2014 7:46:40 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Sub-Driver

Joe: You didn’t make THAT. bo


11 posted on 01/18/2014 7:57:10 AM PST by sasquatch
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‘We Get More Credit Sometimes Than We Deserve’

That gets my vote for understatement of the decade. :-)


12 posted on 01/18/2014 8:05:33 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The man is speaking gibberish.


13 posted on 01/18/2014 9:25:42 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh the things that come out of my dogs a##


14 posted on 01/18/2014 9:27:57 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Sub-Driver

His mother was his wife ?
Wierd.


15 posted on 01/18/2014 9:31:29 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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> He observed that the steep decline in auto sales during President Obama’s first year in office “had nothing to do with us ... we get more credit sometimes than we deserve.”

Thanks Sub-Driver.


16 posted on 01/18/2014 2:25:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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