Posted on 11/01/2012 5:15:35 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Biden: 'We're a purple nation, man'
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By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 11/1/12 6:19 PM EDT
FORT DODGE, Iowa – The United States is a "purple nation," Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday, striking a bipartisan note as politicians come together to recover from Hurricane Sandy and as a key independent endorsed President Obama's re-election.
"We gotta stop this blue and red. We're a purple nation, man," Biden said here, hours after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's endorsement announcement.
"The essence of what he said is we've got to work together," the vice president told the crowd of 475 gathered at the Opera House at Fort Dodge Museum. "We all got to be in this together."
Though Biden has kept up his attacks on the Republican ticket since Sandy hit the East Coast earlier this week, he's also been heralding the cross-the-aisle cooperation of the governors and mayors in areas hit by the storm.
"What came out of this, this godawful storm in the East, was cooperation like it used to exist when I first got into office," he said earlier in the day in Muscotine, Iowa. There and again in Fort Dodge, he listed Republicans he'd worked with over the years, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, retiring Sen. Dick Lugar and former Sens. Chuck Hagel, Bob Dole and Alan Simpson.
Biden's remarks here were not without Biden's usual partisan punch, as he attacked Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for favoring tax cuts for the rich while wanting to cut spending on programs important to lower and middle class Americans.
He also went after the Republican ticket's changing policy positions, but suggested that their deceits are catching up with them.
"The problem is, you never can outrun your shadow," he said. "It's just not possible. You know, it always catches up with you. Unless the sun goes down."
Dude!
Wait... What???..
Rimshot Joe is the Purple People Eater. Freak out Joe!!!
yeah MAN, power to the people MAN, fight the power MAN! Joe has dementia.
For Biden, that’s a surprisingly cogent and intelligent outreach and attempt to seem bi-partisan. A moment of clarity for the guy. Good on him.
crowd of 475 sez it all. There’s more people in the occupy movement
Look for RR to retort that zerocare is all BLUE!
No red or purple to be found!
So blabbering jaws jabber jaws Joe admits now that the once blue states are turning purple ?
Face it, Biden...there is nothing else in the world you could do besides being a (d*mned stupid) politician.
You couldn’t succeed digging ditches.
You couldn’t succeed in any cerebral position.
Just go away, look in a mirror, and say vapid dorky things to that constituent looking at you.
What sort of a schlub would go to see Biden? LOL
Yup, Joe’s got a brain the size of a cue ball.
Yea. With the election 4 days away we’re purple now, MAN. The last 4 years it’s been “screw you red people”, we won the election and it has consequences. FUJ and FUO. Yes, elections do have consequences MAN.
Yea. With the election 4 days away we’re purple now, MAN. The last 4 years it’s been “screw you red people”, we won the election and it has consequences. FUJ and FUO. Yes, elections do have consequences MAN.
OMG First BIG BIRD now BARNEY THE PURPLE DINOSAUR. Hell who could be next ?
Please excuse the double post.
” ‘We gotta stop this blue and red. We’re a purple nation, man,’ Biden said”
That sounds like something you’d hear the ‘Troubled Youth of the Week’ say on Dragnet.
I wonder if Biden was Blue Boy in the 60’s?
Given the economy, the job situation and everything else we have to deal with these days, I might go see Biden for a little comic relief.
Just sayin’
Joe Biden, who pulled your chain?
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