Biden To Students: You’re the Best Generation America Has ‘Ever, Ever, Ever Produced’ and You’ll See Solar Energy ‘Cheap as Gas’ in Your Lifetimes
- Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:45pm by
Erica Ritz
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Joe Biden is known for his memorable gaffes on the campaign trail, having recently called Mitt Romney “President Romney,“ and famously telling a man in a wheelchair to ”stand up…let ‘em see ya.”
And while the most recent slip isn’t quite as cringe-worthy, it is certainly indicative of how drastically perceptions have changed in recent years.
Speaking with uncharacteristic solemnity to a group of college students, Biden asserted that they were the most incredible generation of Americans, ever.
“Your generation and the 9/11 generation before you are the most incredible group of Americans we have ever, ever, ever produced,” he said.
“You volunteer more than my vaulted generation in the ‘60’s…” he said, before praising those who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He continued: “Folks…your generation is on the cusp of the most incredible change in world history, not because of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, but because of the time in which you live. Your generation is going to live through us being able to make solar energy as cheap as gas–or coal, excuse me, coal” [Emphasis added].
Watch the clip, via CNS News:
Some are skeptical of the fact that this yet-unproven generation is the best group of Americans the country has ever produced…but perhaps it’s a preemptive declaration, like Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize?
Still others laugh at Biden’s innocent slip that solar energy will be as cheap as gas, or rather, “coal– excuse me– coal,” in the students’ lifetimes. What happened to Obama’s assertion– when answering a question about coal– that under his plan “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” critics wonder?
According to an April U.S. News article, gas prices have doubled, in many places, during Obama’s first term.
Update: Glenn Beck and his radio crew discussed — and poked fun at — Biden’s speech on the air this morning. What do you think? Does the vice president sound medicated? Take the poll, below:
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Comments (238)
sleeplessmedia
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:46pmEverybody gets a trophy!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:06pmThe youths ever, ever, ever speech…. written by Al Gore no doubt. I guess this means old Al will be back in the picture very soon…. pumping up the youth for Obama.
“You know things that your parents don’t know….”
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:14pmI love every time Biden talks,
I just laugh and laugh…..But I don‘t think I’m suppose to laugh at him……
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:17pmHow do you get this far in life and wind up this ignorant to the facts or is he just saying things that he knows are not true?
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:22pmBest generation of ignorant, self centered, selfish, socialists pigs ever.
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 8:03pmHe’s not lying. When gas is $21.50 a gallon of course it’ll be as cheap as solar power. I have zero doubt our politicians can achieve that end.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 8:26pmWhat a slimeb@ll this guy is.
Disrespecting previous generations and bloviating unsubstantiated rhetoric.
Just like the Viral Video “If I wanted America to fail” stated, the Global Elite have made cheap energy expensive. Now everybody has been slowly indoctrinated into thinking Air, Water and Soil are scarce and endangered items that garners a lot of Federal Reserve Notes, which they control also.
For all who have not seen the video I mentioned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc
Arron Russo explained that most have been brainwashed into thinking majority rules, because the Elite use this ploy to get there agendas passed, with absolutely no regard for the Constitution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewUP-Fdhqk
Biden and friends love their “Emergencies”. Then they can convince the public by utilizing thier MSM that there is a crisis and we need to pass laws to prevent them.
· Global pandemic – Level 6
· Mortgage/housing crisis
· Banking/lending crisis
· Automobile industry crisis
· Insurance industry crisis
· Healthcare crisis
· Southwestern border crisis
· Black market drug crisis
· National education crisis
· Nature/global warming crisis
· Jobs/unemployment crisis
· On-going weather and forest fire crises
· Extreme and unread congressional legislation crisis due to on-going crises
This following link is the TRUTH. Sit down before you Click on it !!!
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 9:08pmPlugs – “That’s not hyperbole” BS, it’s nothing by hyperbole!
Report Post »TheCoffinMaker
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 9:38pmPlease! someone help him to his rocker.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 9:53pmSince last week O’Biden has learned how to suck **** !!!
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:02pmDoes biden give anyone chills up their leg or is that just the prez?
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:02pmHasn’t anyone told this JERK gas is Not cheap anymore,
Report Post »O‘Biden and O’Blamer have seen to that, a jug of Peanut
Butter was under $2.00, since the CHANGE, it is NOW
$5.00….just about the same price of a Gal. of GAS……..
DUMP THESE INCOMPETENT, CORRUPT POS IN
NOVEMBER …………………………………
TheEDGE
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:17pmI must be out of touch. First I find out that Beyonce is the world‘s most beautiful woman and now I’m being told that this is the best generation ever, ever, EVER?
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:27pmBiden makes Snookie look like a genius.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:45pmMust be a VOTE or two, the’re trying to get out of this audience..
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:55pmTell us how much does a gallon of solar energy cost today, Joe — so we can make a fair AND BALANCED comparison!!!!!!!!
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:57pmAnyone else notice, in that picture, how much he resembles Howard ‘SCREAMER’ Dean???????
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:59pmHonestly seeing a lot of these kids today he may be right, he isn’t going to like what the kids are deciding though. More and more I see kids deciding at an early age that they are conservatives and that we need to go back and follow the founders.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 11:02pmThis Administration has Destroyed the Coal Business with their
Report Post »corrupt BS..Dumbing Down and Indoctrinating our Kids and are
now in the process of Queering America…thanks BO and Joe…
You guys are real winners..HOPE to NEVER see your faces
again, after NOVEMBER….
anOpinion
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:02am“You are the best generation America has produced in 500 years”
Report Post »Dr Vel
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:57amHe must be talking to those in states 51 through 57. In the original 50 this generation is the worst most pathetic crop of people this nation has ever produced.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:31amLooks like old Joe got it wrong again.
Report Post »98ZJUSMC
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:34amHEY! That’s me……:-)
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:43amThey will also see a big or huge debt bill
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:44amDid Biden tell the kids that after our money becomes worthless it will be like Germany in the late 30′s. People had to have 2 suitcases of money to buy a loaf of bread. If Biden had told the truth it would have said, ” a gallon of gas will be $2.00 in silver coins or $1,000.00 in old currency. we will be bartering or using gold and silver. Why do you think the Chineese are buying gold and not selling what they mine. Old George Soreass has acculinated over a billion in gold. To control America the EPA has stopped mining in the USA and it takes a mining company 5 years and millionsof dollars to finally get permits to start.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:56amThe IDIOT speaketh!!! The imbicile opens his mouth and PHAAAAART, methane gas eminates from it.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 2:04pmDid anyone else notice the drool in both corners of his mouth?
Report Post »bumfuzeled
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 3:09pmLess motivational than cult like praise to a generation of kids who can vote but don’t yet pay taxes.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 7:22pmGas here is $3.80 a gallon… so when these people graduate they will pay/see $3.58 a kilowatt? Don’t doubt it. They will probably be unlucky enough to see even more with all the worthless green weenie enviro crap getting implemented.
Report Post »dah.rackemup
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 9:22pmit blows my mind that people actually vote for this pos.delaware must be the dope smoking capital of the world to vote for joe the new born jelly bean.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:45pmIn other words, gasoline will be 25 dollars per gallon.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:08pmThePostman
In other words, gasoline will be 25 dollars per gallon.
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Crazy Old Faux Pas Joe…
He accidentally slipped the tongue and told the truth.
Kind of sad really….
Report Post »It probably went over the heads of the “greatest generation” …
That Joe was talking about.
rickc34
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 11:43pmBidens brain is like a 5 watt bulb in a 100 watt forrest. This is the kind of energy conservation the dems are in to by using less brain power
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:06pmYou stole my thunder. Exactly right the only way solar will compete with oil in the next 40 years is if oil goes through the roof. But I guess if you slooooow down production and place barriers in front of all other forms of carbon energy Joe may get his way at OUR peril.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:43pm…
Report Post »What did you expect from ole Joe the gasbag?
tzion
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 9:48pmYou know, in hindsight, it would be interesting to know who people would have voted for if the 2008 Democratic primary were held today. Remember, the candidates included Obama, Clinton, Biden, and Edwards.
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:39pmAmazing, these United States of America, where a complete dipsh¡t can become the VP. Go shine your clown shoes, biden.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:14pm@rawmilker
Sent it to Glenn’s crew…. thanks.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:48pmRawmilker……….This is exactly what a lot of people have been saying will happen. Staging an *event* to cause a reaction that will call for martial law.
Report Post »This also explains Louis Farrakhan‘s recent warnings that someone will make an attempt on Obama’s life. The Nation of Islam working hand in glove with the Obama administration and the New Black Panthers.
Thank you for the link……….this is how America is getting the news now.
inblack
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:39pmSadly, this is a lie.
This generation is dumber, less moral and less hard working.
Biden is a politician and a liar.
Romney, please reject your progressive roots and commit to liberty so we can get marxist Obama out of office and save this country.
Maximum Freedom, Minimum Government
Report Post »Paleo Archer
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:37pmEven The Lib’s that post here, must cringe when “Bite-Me” opens his pie-hole……BBBBAAAHHHHHH
Report Post »And this guy is a heartbeat from POTUS…..Gee! Kinda makes your skin crawl…
lukerw
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:32pmSTUPID: The Chips from Solar Collection… burn out due to the Heat… which results in a Cost of Replacement & Maintenance added to the Production, Purchase, & Installation Price… which is only Cost Effective, if Socialists can Limit Oil & Coal, increasing the Price to over $15 a Gallon… and which is their “plan”!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:30pmWhat a Lair
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:26pmYou are the best generation America has ever, ever, ever produced. Polls show that nearly 25% of you know from what country we gained our independence during the revolutionary war. Almost as many of you will not be living in your mother’s basement after college.
Report Post »Rayford
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:20pmYou are the best generation ever..as long as you vote for me..
What kind of volunteering is he praising? Military service, helping homeless, churches, or old folks homes? Mowing your disabled neighbor’s lawn for free? Giving an elderly person that cant drive anymore a ride to the store?
OR
Volunteering in Obamas re-election offices, passing out flyers at rallys, joining OWS protests, blogging on conservative sites AKA Encinidiot..
Which is it Joe Joe?
These kids coming out of school have nothing to do but either sit on their butt or volunteer, as they are NOT ready to enter the work force. (the large majority, not all).
Report Post »creepshow
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:34pmI would honest to God prefer a military coup to Joe Biden being President.
Report Post »This man is the biggest clown to ever step foot in the White House – but he’s too arrogant and stupid to realize it. What a fool.
wordweaver
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:15pmGood idea, Joe. Declare a generation of young people who haven’t even left school yet to be the greatest generation ever. Well, folks have been telling them stuff like that since the day they were born, so I’m sure they believed you. There must be a whole team of folks dedicated to follow the Veep around and clean up after him every time he gets close to a microphone. Unbelievable!
Report Post »dnewton
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 10:35pmIf they are so great, why would they consider voting for our President? Why would they consider being a tax slave for the rest of their life to pay off this debt?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:15pmUh, no, joe, this is NOT the greatest generation AMERICA has ever produced, NOR is it the BEST generation AMERICA has ever produced. This is indoctrinated generation, the controlled generation, the “me-first-and-at-all-cost” generation. WE THE PEOPLE are now charged with EDUCATING the robots and getting them to BE REAL AMERICANS. you are such a buffoon. I cannot believe any school of any merit any where in the entire UNITED STATES OF AMERICA would ask you to simply pass by the grounds, much less speak. UGGGGHHHHHH!
Report Post »possom
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:12pmBiden is the second biggest mistake american’s have ever made!
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:11pmThose serving in military work for NATO the arm of the UN, work for killers. Mass murderers. How can he praise the killing? NATO is not a peace keeping organization. It’s a killing machine. NATO left 500,000 children dead in Iraq. No wonder the nations hate us. Bush & Obama are mass murderers living open and in luxury. The world is more evil because they lived.
Coal? Ask the Govenor and people of WV.! Obama is killing the coal industry. Coal is not going to be given away at the rate Obummer is destroyed the industry.
I think He meant to say gas. Biden is an idiot on legs.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:06pmCareful, careful. Regardless of your point of view… you are sliding down that same leftist/Ron Paul anti-war drumbeat of calling OUR Military service members past and present murderers as they carry out the orders of those appointed/annointed/elected over them. You’re not saying THAT right???
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:39amCrickets…. I guess you were saying that….
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 1:31pmGee Time,I Do Not see as many foreign folks as enemies of the Constitution as I do domestic folks.Maybe the American service people should be at home protecting us against NDAA,The Patriot Act,CISPA,HR 347 and shooting down the spy drones that government plans on using to spy on us?Protect us from the Domestic Enemies of the Constitution? “I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC…..”
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:10pmBecause the admin intends to drive gas prices up (necessarily skyrocket).
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:04pmOkay seeker we’re 15.7 trillion in the hole and 144 trillion in unfunded liabilities and no budget in three years from the criminals in DC.Whats the chance the dollar loses reserve currency status in the short term?
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:10pmGuess he hasn’t read the book “The Greatest Generation”, then again, he probably hasn’t read many books at all. He is as stupid as ignorant can get. Aren’t we sooo proud of all the young people protesting, using drugs, have free sex, and studying marxism. Yes, Biden, you are truly nuts and love spreading b***s*** all over this generation.
Report Post »blownaway
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:05pmObama, Biden and the rest, these fools are so full of themselves… unbelievable!
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:22pmThe Biden Agenda ——
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiClGkRqQxw&feature=relmfu
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 9:15pm@FromSeatoSea
Good clip. It’s going on my favorites list.
The UN was created in 1945 by the World Bank and the IMF, one year after acquiring the Lien on the United States in 1944 during the Bretton Woods Treaty.
We lost our Country to the Progressive Global Elite in 1933 due to the default of the 1913 loan from the Federal Reserve Private Bank.
We were seized by the Bank in 1933. Social Security Came out in 1936:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCs7u1ihws
About 95% of ALL D.C. politicians are Progressive Global Elite Minions.
RepubliCONS and DemocRATS !!!!!
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:05pmStill others laugh at Biden’s innocent slip that solar energy will be as cheap as gas, or rather, “coal– excuse me– coal,” in the students’ lifetimes.
Well obummer’s EPA almost made that a reality. Unfortunately, it isn’t that solar “will be as cheap as coal,” it will be that coal will be as expensive as solar…
Report Post »Zurich
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:04pmThis is intolerable. A psychiatric patient shouldn’t be talking to the Nation anymore. The radical Muslim bin Biden (“America is the problem”) is addressing a generation that will live in debt for the rest of their lives and on top of that without the Liberties that once were granted by the Constitution. VP doesn’t stand for Vice President anymore, but for Vicious Politician.
Report Post »CCRYDER
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:03pmOMG – Why do they let this guy loose? Open mouth, Joe, insert foot, jam down your throat…ROTFLMAO!!! His generation was “vaulted”? Is he serious? I’m 64 and we a lot of things but certainly were not vaulted! Sad to say my generation produced many of the commie’s surrounding Obummer today. The good new is most of us grew up and will be voting for freedom not slavery in November.
Oh, Joe, keep these incredible stupid comments coming….cheaper than coal? Is he kidding his boss is determined to destroy the coal industry from which we get great amounts of electricity. I’m not sure why since BO is determined to jam us in to electric cars that cost a fortune, start fires and will cost a fortune to run if BO‘s crap ’n trade plan ever comes to be and electricity rates “necessarily skyrocket.” Oh, right, that’s his plan to completely destroy the country.
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:22pmI think Joe meant “vaunted”, not “vaulted”. I’m not sure his generation was vaunted either.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:02pmBiden, clueless moutpiece of the admin and their terror and disaster policies.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:00pmBiden is so full of crap I bet he has to carry two rolls of toilet paper with him at all times.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:08pmThree
Report Post »Dave In Arizona
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 12:29amHow about a case full?
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:58pmuhhh…. really? The gimme generation is the best we’ve ever produced??
Report Post »That Guy
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:57pmHe means we will make gas as expensive as solar. Jus Sayin!!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 5:56pmSolar energy as cheap as gas or coal eh? Dementia is a terrible thing and the dry drunk really shouldn’t be allowed to appear in public.
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