President Obama defends Biden ‘Chains’ remark

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President Barack Obama is standing by his Vice President’s side after he suggested last week that Republicans want to put voters in “chains,” igniting a fierce war of words between the rival campaigns. In an interview with People Magazine in Iowa, the president called Joe Biden an “outstanding” figure who is “passionate about what’s happening in middle-class families.”

To clarify Biden’s remarks, Obama said the vice president said “you, consumers, the American people, will be a lot worse off if we repeal these [Wall Street reform] laws as the other side is suggesting,” Obama said, defending his running mate. “In no sense was he trying to connote something other than that.” Biden was arguing that the House GOP budget plan, partly written by newly-minted GOP vice presidential running mate, Representative Paul Ryan, gives an indication of the Republican presidential ticket’s values. “Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, ‘unchain Wall Street.’ They’re going to put y’all back in chains,” Biden said in Danville, Virginia.




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