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Biden: Americans Are ‘Better Off Today’ Than They Were Four Years Ago and ‘If It Weren’t So Hot, I’d Go Into Detail’

Sep. 3, 2012 5:13pm Jason Howerton

Vice President Joe Biden Tells Supporters at AFL CIO Rally That America Is Better Off With Obama

Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Metro Detroit AFL-CIO Labor Day Rally, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, in Detroit. (Credit: AP)

DETROIT (TheBlaze/AP) — Vice President Joe Biden had a simple Labor Day message for unionized workers: Stick with President Barack Obama because the other guys are worse.

Biden told about 3,500 supporters at an AFL-CIO Labor Day rally in Detroit Monday that “America is better off today than they left us when they left.” Unfortunately for American voters, temperatures were too high for Biden to go into detail.

“If it weren’t so hot – if it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail but let me sum it up this way: You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you,” Biden said before chanting three times: “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”

Watch some of Biden’s remarks here:

The VP also said that the Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would roll back collective bargaining rights, denigrate their work and undermine the slow economic recovery under way.

One of Obama’s top ambassadors to the working-class, Biden also sought with his remarks to keep a group of reliably Democratic voters motivated before an Election Day that is shaping up to be close.

“Romney and Ryan don’t think that much about you guys,” he said at the outdoor rally. “They view you, the working women and men of America as the problem. We view you as the solution. Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.”

The Republican candidates supported measures to roll back collective bargaining rights for public union workers in Wisconsin and Ohio. Romney also has been critical of the National Labor Relations Board, accusing it of overstepping its role and suggesting it has become a proxy for Obama’s union allies.

Separately, a review of Romney’s economic proposals by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found that wealthier workers would benefit at the expense of the middle class, including many unionized workers.

All that has given Democrats an opening to appeal to populist elements in the party and, perhaps, distract from stubbornly high unemployment nationwide and in North Carolina, where Democrats open their convention Tuesday.

In response, Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg argued that the middle class has been “crushed” by high joblessness, fallen incomes and rising gas prices under Obama.

“Americans aren’t better off than they were four years ago, and they deserve a president who recognizes that,” she said.

Biden also faulted Romney for opposing the federal bailout of the U.S. auto industry, and criticized Ryan for saying Obama promised to save a GM plant in Ryan’s Janesville, Wis., hometown. The plant closed before Obama took office.

Biden said Romney’s economic message doesn’t add up.

“Folks, you can’t say you’re going to create jobs in the United States of America when you were willing to let 1 million jobs go under by the liquidation of the automobile plants he suggested,” the vice president said.

“Ladies and gentlemen, you, organized labor, are one of the reasons why this country is coming back. Folks, let me make something clear and say it to the press: America is better off today than they left us when they left.”

That line was a direct response to the argument the GOP will press during this Democratic convention week, that things are worse off now than they were four years ago when a Republican president left the White House.

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rsanchez1
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:14pm
I think it’s funny that even though Labor Day was made for these labor unions, everyone else takes the day off except for the unions going out and doing demonstrations or protests, which they do every day anyway.

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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 2:05am
  “America is better off today than they left us when they left.”
  
  “If it weren’t so hot – if it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail…”
  
  Biden is the gift that keeps giving. I would bet lots of cash the above will be hammered!
  
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- KURT1010
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:38am
  What an Azz Hole !
  
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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:53am
  God forbid Biden should actually have to sweat and explain how we are all better off with four years of big government. I expect another executive order any minute deeming any activity that causes a citizen to break a sweat illegal. All hail King Obama and his minions! May their reign end soon.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:11pm
Biden is a fool. I have a bumper sticker for you…Biden……..”Obama killed Bin Laden and America” Biden is the equivalent of a Mr. Greenjeans.

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- DrKev
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:59pm
  that is not a nice thing to say about Mr Greenjeans please twke it back
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:25pm
  Chicago Underwater
  
  Obama’s 1995 subprime plaintiffs hit hard when housing bubble burst
  
  Read more: http://dailycaller.com/#ixzz25S5t4nZ5
  
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- Stoic one
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:32pm
  biden is in a classification of fool held only by him and debbie wasserman-schultz; and it is below that of the famous Schultz of Hogans Heroes.
  
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- MCDAVE
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:55pm
  the Obama’s are shopping for an estate in Haiwaii …even he knows its over for him
  
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- KangarooJack
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:06pm
  I adored Mr. Greenjeans and if you don’t take it back…I’ll ask Grandfather Time to clock you! Capt. Kangaroo should have been President….he’d of done a better job than Obama!
  
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- Sirfoldallot
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:16pm
  This comeing from a FBI ( full blown idiot ) , he will make as much win or lose, so lieing now is how he really doesn’t care.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:28pm
  MC: Smart move on his part. Gets him oceans away , at tax payers’ expense, from the mainland Americanshe has alienated and from the congressional investigations his administration has earned . And closer to the Indonesia he seems to be infatuated with and seems to have highlighted during his administration. Old memories from his time as Barry Soetoro ?
  
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LoveMyFreedom
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:05pm
You are all missing the point… of course Americans are better off today than they were four years ago… that is, if you happen to be an AFL-CIO (or any other union) thug… oops… I mean, boss… NO… I mean thug!

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- DIR
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:28pm
  @LOVEMYFEEDOM
  
  Your exactly right. Joe manages to leave out the other 99% of americans who are worse off, in his less than honest diatribe. The unemployed, people loosing their homes, which is far more catastrophic than the idea of just ‘loosing a home’ suggests. People getting work are making less and many are having to take the new ‘part time job’ to survive. The cost of gasoline is up, and the sae with food. Joe is nothing more than a poor excuse for a snake oil sales person and schill for the demoCRAP. This arrogant POS needs to be jailed at least and, more like, tar and feathered then run out of this country.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:02pm
“Vice President Joe Biden had a simple Labor Day message for unionized workers: Stick with President Barack Obama because the other guys are worse.”

Ironic, “the other guys are worse” is the same mantra promoted by tea party people who support Mitt Romney

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:22pm
  lol. nice. … “vote for me cuz i don’t suck (as bad)” Wave of the future man. wave of the future.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:35pm
  Did you ever see the movie, ‘Idiocracy’?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:57pm
  SOY: did you have a part ?
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:03pm
  the one where they were feeding gatorade to the plants and nobody could speak english anymore? …And the Prez drove a Harley while pounding beers & shooting his assault rifle?…. LingMAO….. C’mon.. It’s not that bad. is it?
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:08pm
  @Eastinfection
  LOL – Yea! “It’s got……electrolytes”
  
  Your first post reminded me of that movie…That is our destiny under the “vote for me cuz I’m not as bad” scenario
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:11pm
  @BARBER Helllooo Newman…. was just thinking you and SOY would make swell roomies in a reboot of the odd couple? whadddya think BARB?
  
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- Too_Far_Gone
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:22pm
  Idiot.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:22pm
  @ SOY That may be our destiny regardless. Maybe Glen’s hysteria is accurate and we should all build a bunker, by gold, and stock up on “Food Storage” or whatever. Though not sure how the gold will help. You know what? Eff it! i’m investing in something REAL- Powerball tickets! Then i can convert my winnings into massive amounts of drugs and alcohol and be numb til the “bombs” come. You still here BARBER? Got a gun? I’ll hire you to be my security?
  
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strawberry411a
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:59pm
Joe Biden: intellectual

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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:07pm
  Obama & Michelle will be waaaayyyy better off…see this: http://www.hillbuzz.org/who-is-funding-the-purchase-of-the-35-million-beachfront-Hawaii-estate-for-Barack-and-Michelle….
  
  it seems it’s already known he’s moving in 2013, but not to Chicago..on, no..
  
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Coonshine
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:54pm
“America is better off today than they left us when the left.” That’s a lot of left from the left……

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Luvs2golf
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:50pm
As for the comment from them, “Osama bin Laden is dead “, they didn’t make that happen, someone else did !!

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- barber2
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:11pm
  Well, we found a situation wherein Obama’s comment is true ! ( sshhhh: that comment doesn’t make him look good, and you know the guy is VERY sensitive … )
  
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daveposh
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:46pm
Right. And seniors are happier because they are getting junk mail. What a douche-bag!

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floridareader
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:42pm
What he meant was: “if we weren’t toasted…”….

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- designbyinspiration
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:49pm
  Bwahahah!!! The Vice-Doofus needs a bumper sticker for his union, mono-brow/cranially challanged supporters to remember what talking point to chant and who to vote for in Nov. LLLLLoooollll!
  
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Silversmith
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:38pm
Yeah it’s hot Joe – Cuz you guys are out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Silversmith

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OneTermPresident
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:34pm
How many union coal and oil workers lost their jobs because of Obama’s stifling regulations? How many bankrupt green energy companies has he left in his wake?

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- pissantno.10
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:23pm
  and all the people that supported them barbers, car dealers machine shops truck shops , on and on
  
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- Bill Rowland
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 5:45am
  Its not just the oil and coal workers that he is screwing. His latest executive order will send energy costs thru the roof. Get ready for brown outs, days of no power at all and costs that will bankrupt the middle class and poor that Sweet Old Barak says he wants to help. His restrictions on drilling and stopping the keystone pipe line only contribute to the high cost of gasoline and the high cost of energy.
  DRILL BABY DRILL
  
  OMG Nov 6, 2012
  
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grams09
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:32pm
We’re stacking up on firewood because we don’t think we’ll be able to afford heating much longer with all the executive orders our Pres. is enacting. I’m paying more and more “hidden” taxes on my utility bills, hotel bills, airline fees, higher insurance costs, higher gas prices, etc. The people in Washington D.C. and their friends may be better off because they’re funneling money to them, but here in the real America, we are not better off. He must be smoking something.

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- possom
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:38pm
  2 12 volt marine batteries, 1 solar battery charger and 1 power convertor at my place and I’m getting more batteries payday!
  
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Zipit
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:28pm
Total BAH—FOOOOOOOOOOON!

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:27pm
Sorry Plugs, but that joke went over like a turd in a punch bowl.

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- Angel_light
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:47pm
  I have never heard that before…what kind of parties have you been to?
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:06pm
  Like a screen door on a submarine.
  
  Like a fart in a sea-diver’s helmet.
  
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Larry E
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:26pm
If CO₂ causes global warming or whatever it’s being called this week, just getting Biden to quit spewing nonsense at every opportunity would likely cause a reduction in CO₂ levels.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:26pm
Why is it so hot for Biden?

His britches were undergoing spontanious incineration from his own lies.
He knew any questions or details offered would be lies anyone could refute with ease.
He is under instructions to keep his mouth shut by Obama.

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- CatB
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:33pm
  He thinks it’s hot now? .. .wait Joe. All those lies and evil are going to catch up big-time.
  
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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:37pm
  too funny snow and true
  
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- hidden_lion
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:53pm
  it’s hot because he is in the middle of Detroit, trying to convince them things are better, when all anyone has to do is look around and see that it is not. Maybe he should help them clean up the corpses left in empty parking lots. Biden is the stupidest person ever to be allowed to hold office.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:00pm
  HIDDEN: I always figured that the international Left chose Obama because he was bi-racial . Do you think Obama chose Biden because he was white and dumb ?
  
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heavyduty
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:25pm
Yeah, I would say that Obama and Biden are better off than they were. But for the rest of us, not so much. When you are at the top or near the top of the ladder. It’s real hard to see the rest of us.

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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:42pm
  …
  I agree.
  
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13th Imam
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:22pm
Bite Me, bite me

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randy
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:22pm
And if Biden wasn’t such an Idiot, Obama would let him ramble on.

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randy
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:21pm
Too funny…..
I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you,” Biden said before chanting three times: “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”

The rest of the Bumper Sticker…..
Your dollar is worth less.
Gas pricing and energy costs are going thru the roof.
Food prices up.
If you have not already lost your job, you will soon.
You didn’t build that.
And today Obama compares himself to Jesus.

I could go on and on, It’s just too hot.

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- teddrunk
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:22am
  Producing the Volt isn’t really living, now is it.
  
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justangry
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:21pm
Wouldn’t it be nice to live in Washington’s reality? They are all so out of touch

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:26pm
  Why would I want to?
  
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MeteoricLimbo
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:20pm
If he weren’t such a fool he wouldn’t have worn a dark shirt on a hot day. Joe, I’m afraid your day has come and gone.

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phrogdriver
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:19pm
Yeah, look at all the airlines that have gone bankrupt. Now you can’t fly anymore ’cause they all disappeared. It would have been awful to let capitalism work. We all would have had to walk everywhere or take AmTrak.

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- phrogdriver
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:27pm
  As an asside – can someone explain to me what economic theory would support Obama’s claim that the Bush tax cuts caused the recession? If not, can someone explain to me why no one has ever asked that question?
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:26pm
  Yeah … it’s because the Reps made all sorts of bend-over compromises to get them passed. The tax breaks didn’t cause the recession- all the junk mail that came with them did,
  
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- barber2
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:08pm
  PHR: I still can’t figure how the Democrats through the ACORN ( Obama’s once represented the group before he surrendered his aw license ) pressure on evil banks which were ” discriminating against poor minorities” have escaped any blame in the housing fiasco and the crash that followed . The Democrats were able to walk away scott-free and the are STILL blaming the banks. Is it because the Media never exposes any of their under-handed activities ? Bribery ? Threats ?
  
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MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:18pm
Always an excuse…..

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Tri-ox
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:18pm
Biden’s ‘dementia thermostat’ prevents him from going into detail …

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