BIDEN: Bernie Credible on Wealth Inequality, Middle Class Losses, Dem. Socialism; Recent Praise
CNN's Gloria Borger sits down with Vice President Joe Biden and discusses the prospects of Democratic Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Jan. 2016.
Biden says Bernie characterizes that he's a democratic socialist in European terms which wouldn't be known otherwise, how Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real, and he has credibility on it. And that is the absolute, enormous concentration of wealth in a small group of people, with the Middle Class now able to be shown as Left Out, Biden emphasized.
He stressed that 'there used to be a basic bargain, that if you contributed to the profitability of an enterprise, you got to share in the profit. That's been broken and productivity is way up, wages are stagnant. No one questions Bernie's authenticity on those issues. It's relatively new for Hillary to talk about that'. On Clinton Biden said, 'I never thought she was the prohibitive favorite, and I don't think she ever thought she was the prohibitive favorite.'
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JOE BIDEN: *"HE'LL TAKE MR. SANDERS ASPIRATIONS OVER MRS. CLINTON'S CAUTION ANY DAY", April 21, 2016.
New York Times, "Biden Looks Back, Aspirations Intact", Thursday, April 21, 2016 ~ PRAISE FOR SANDERS
Having passed on the 2016 presidential race, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. watches the fight for the Democratic nomination with a mixture of longing and restlessness. He remains neutral in the battle between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, but not between their campaign styles. *He’ll take Mr. Sanders’s aspirational approach over Mrs. Clinton’s caution any day. “I like the idea of saying, ‘We can do much more,’ because we can,” Mr. Biden said in an interview on the Washington-to-Wilmington, Del., Amtrak train he has ridden throughout four decades in national politics.
“I don’t think any Democrat’s ever won saying, ‘We can’t think that big — we ought to really downsize here because it’s not realistic,’ ” he said in a mocking tone. “C’mon man, this is the Democratic Party! I’m not part of the party that says, ‘Well, we can’t do it.’ ”
..Yet he likes the idea that Mr. Sanders is aiming high, regardless of whether the large steps he envisions to narrow INCOME INEQUALITY and broaden economic opportunity become realized in the next presidential term. The philosophy Mr. Biden has advocated within the Obama White House: Push for a lot, and persevere over the long run.
“Presidents have always been told by really smart people: ‘Don’t push something that you can’t succeed in-- it diminishes your power,’ ” he said. “I completely disagree with that proposition. “Everything I’ve ever cared about — with the exception of the president’s brilliant passage of the Affordable Care Act -- takes time,” he added.
“The only way to get these big things done is talk about them.”
More: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/us/politics/biden-looks-back-aspirations-intact.html?_r=0
- Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., center, at the Oval Office this month.
He remains neutral in the battle between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, but not between their campaign styles.
*He’ll take Mr. Sanders’s aspirational approach over Mrs. Clinton’s caution any day.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was born in 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware where he graduated from the University of Delaware. He received a law degree from Syracuse University, practiced law in Wilmington, and was a Councilman for New Castle County, Delaware.
In 1972 Biden campaigned and was elected US Senator from Delaware (D) which he represented from 1973-2009 when he became the Vice President of President Barack Obama.
Biden is the first Roman Catholic and the first Delawarean to become Vice President of the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
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~ Senator and Mrs. Sanders (Dr. Jane Sanders) Wave to Crowds at a Large Campaign Rally. Feel the Bern!
and praise in the NT Times article, in this Video of the Sanders Rally last Sat. in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden's home state. When hearing WHAT JOE SAID, the Crowd went Wild! 
Delaware's primary election like RI, CT, PA & MD is tomorrow, Tues., April 26. We'll see how it goes. Joe & Jill voted last week and are mum about their candidates. But I'm thinking Joe just might...you know. 
At the Wilmington, Delaware Campaign Rally last Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders read remarks that Vice President Biden, of Delaware made two days before in the NY Times about Bernie's "aspirational approach" and ability to "Think Big."
~ Thank you Vice President Biden!
CNN, "BIDEN MUM ON WHETHER HE VOTED FOR CLINTON OR SANDERS", Updated April 23 ~ PRAISES SANDERS.
Vice President Joe Biden cast his vote in the Delaware Democratic primary Friday but stayed quiet on which candidate he voted for as his party's nominee. The vice president -- and his wife, Jill Biden -- voted early while at their home in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday, the vice president's office confirmed to CNN. Politico first reported his vote on Friday.
While Biden has not endorsed either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nominee, he has not been shy about talking about the state of the race and the two candidates.
Just this week in an interview, Biden praised Sanders for thinking big about how to lead the country, seeming to dismiss the Vermont independent senator's critics who say his proposals are not realistic. "I like the idea of saying, 'We can do much more,' because we can," Biden told The New York Times in an interview published Thursday.
"I don't think any Democrat's ever won saying, 'We can't think that big- we ought to really downsize here because it's not realistic,'" Biden said. "C'mon man, this is the Democratic Party! I'm not part of the party that says, 'Well, we can't do it.'"
It's not the first time Biden has made comments interpreted as support for the Vermont senator.
During a CNN interview with Gloria Borger in January, Biden backed Sanders' fight on income inequality and described Clinton as "relatively new" to the movement.
Biden mulled whether to run for the Democratic nomination last year, before he put an end to speculation in an October announcement that he wouldn't seek the presidency. The vice president, who has wanted to reach the highest office for decades, said he regrets "every day" that he didn't enter the 2016 presidential race -- but that his decision was in his family's best interests.
*The Delaware primary, scheduled for Tuesday, is a closed primary. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Maryland also have their primaries that day.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/23/politics/joe-biden-votes-democratic-primary/
VICE PRESIDENT JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR.
Joe Biden was born in 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware where he graduated from the University of Delaware. He received a law degree from Syracuse University, practiced law in Wilmington, and was a Councilman for New Castle County, Delaware. In 1972 Biden campaigned and was elected US Senator from Delaware (D) which he represented from 1973-2009 when he became the Vice President of President Barack Obama.
*Biden is the first Roman Catholic and the first Delawarean to become Vice President of the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
-DR. JILL BIDEN, SECOND LADY OF THE UNITED STATES
As Second Lady of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden works to bring attention to the sacrifices made by military families, to highlight the importance of community colleges to America’s future, and to raise awareness around areas of particular importance to women including breast cancer prevention, all while continuing to teach English full-time at a community college in nearby Virginia.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/jill-biden
