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Vice President Biden stumps for Gov. Strickland in Dayton
By Lucas Sullivan
Vice President Joe Biden spoke just after lunch at a fundraiser for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland at the Engineers Club in downtown Dayton, Ohio, Monday, Sept. 20.
Biden greeted and took pictures with the area’s most loyal Democrats before telling the crowd Strickland’s re-election bid is “the most important governor’s race in the country.” A few hundred attended the event, paying from $125 to $5,000 to see or speak with the VPOTUS.
Strickland introduced Biden after speaking for about a minute. Strickland admitted his race was going to be “very close” and asked for those in audience to mobilize and reach apathetic voters. Strickland is down as many as 17 points in the latest polls, though there was no mention of that by Strickland or Biden.
Biden took the podium with Strickland seated to his left and Strickland’s running mate Yvette McGee-Brown to his right and spoke for nearly 40 minutes about the country’s economic problems and how Strickland’s Republican opponent, John Kasich, represented the same Republicans that put the country and economy into “a ditch.”
Biden said Democrats need to tell voters “Don’t compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. The Republican Tea Party is the alternative.”
Biden mentioned Kasich’s ties to Wall Street through his tenure at Lehman Brothers and said “I like John,” but called most of Kasich’s plans misguided. Biden said President Obama has created 763,000 private sector jobs since taking office two years ago, “more than the previous administration did in eight years.”
Meanwhile, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine of Fairborn used a press release to “welcome” Biden to the state.
“Joe Biden is a visible reminder of why Ohioans are fed up with the failed policies and reckless spending of the Obama administration,” said DeWine.
“He’s been here three times since August, and the only thing Ohio has to show for it is 15,000 more people on the unemployment line.”
Back in Dayton, Biden hammered home Strickland’s ability to balance Ohio’s budget while still investing in public education.
Biden said he has campaigned for many candidates, but there is no one that has “more character” than Strickland and said the Ohio governor knows what it is like to struggle, referencing Strickland’s hardships on the farm growing up.
Biden said the country’s “most important” governor’s race was going to be a close one. He said Strickland’s ability to lead Ohio through the “greatest recession” in history shows his character and the governor has helped rescue a state from policies of the previous Republican administration.
Like he has done numerous times before, Biden referenced growing up in Scranton, Pa., and his father’s decision to move the family to Delaware in search of work and “the longest walk parents can make” is up a short flight of stairs to tell their children they’ve lost their job.
“Millions have been stripped of their dignity,” Biden said. “It’s time to restore their dignity.”
Biden said he gets that millions of Americans are upset and said they have a right to be. He said Republicans don’t value the middle class and said Republicans will cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans, while middle class families struggle to pay their utility bills.”
Biden said the Republicans want to give those who make an average of $8.3 million a $360,000 tax break, which add to $700 billion in lost tax revenue.
“When the country’s in the ditch we want to take that $700 billion and reduce the deficit with it,” he said. “There’s no economic data to show they would invest the money otherwise.”
He rallied those in attendance by saying, “Reports of the demise of the Democratic Party are premature.” He was emphatic Democrats would hold majorities in both the House and Senate through the Nov. 3 election.
After speaking Biden and Strickland hopped on a plane to another campaign event near the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio.
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By muzimavr
October 2, 2010 1:26 PM | Link to this
I would like to exchange links with your site www.daytondailynews.com Is this possible?
By greatly concerned
September 22, 2010 6:11 AM | Link to this
It is not rocket science to know that Joe Biden and Ted Strickland are two people who care about America and Ohio’s middle class families. It completely confuses me why so many middle class Ohioans are suckered into supporting candidates and issues that are 100% against themselves and their own families. Voting for Kasish, is voting against the middle class. Wake up Ohio.
By hg1
September 22, 2010 5:55 AM | Link to this
Last week is was Larry Flint and Bill Clinton pandering to all the perverts who are drawn out by the dem’s mantra and this week it’s “Joe Bite-me” Biden. Who’s next in this circus of clowns?
By Amused
September 21, 2010 1:02 PM | Link to this
What a hoot! Abbott campaigning for Costello. Or was it Larry campaigning for Moe? At any rate, it was one fool campaigning for another. Anyone who votes for either of these clowns deserves what they get.
By republicansarereallysleazy
September 21, 2010 10:25 AM | Link to this
Here’s what’s wrong with middle class Republicans today. You are willing to pay whatever price tag big business puts on everything, and to accept whatever compensation/benefits they choose to give you. You want to know why social security isn’t a ponzi scheme — it works. Maybe we should have used our surplus to shore it up instead of building cement bunkers in Iraq. Hold your leadership accountable. If you understand that you are already paying for uninsured/underinsured medical care, why are you not committed to lowering the costs and increasing meaningful access? “Government” collects your trash from the curb; it’s all relative.
By SummerKelley
September 21, 2010 9:27 AM | Link to this
This makes me sick. Go back to Washington, Joe. You know NOTHING of Ohio’s politics or how Strickland ran our economy into the ground. Do NOT tell me who I should vote for when you aren’t even from Ohio!
By greatly concerned
September 21, 2010 9:00 AM | Link to this
http://manufacturethis.org/?cat=67 Be sure to watch the video and read the article if you want to see which Party has your back and which Party wants to outsource your jobs Ohio.
By I'm Surrounded By Idiots
September 21, 2010 7:42 AM | Link to this
@republicansaresleazy…of course tax cuts for the rich matter, they are the only ones paying taxes. Did a poor person ever hire you for a job? Go research what happens when minimum wage laws are introduced into the economy. Go back to school and learn economics. Go research ponzi scheme and then think about social security. And for the last time, no one is denied health care when they walk into an emergency room. Those that do, don’t have health care for a myriad of reasons, most of which are bad life choices. You are nothing more than sheeple with your inability to think things through with reason and no emotion.
By philman
September 21, 2010 7:00 AM | Link to this
That would be the TRUTH O METER, I had to go back and read the Kasich article
By Philman
September 21, 2010 6:52 AM | Link to this
IS the DDN working on their TRUTH Alert for bidens speech, like the one they did for the Kasich commercial?
By Gery
September 20, 2010 11:30 PM | Link to this
Joe Biden is just one of the many Washington talking heads who only showed his when there was money on the line for the Democrats. Biden and his presidential pal were silent as Dayton watched its industry deteriorate. Then they show up just when one of the worst governors in Ohio history is in need of their endorsements to get re-elected in his own state.
By Dwight
September 20, 2010 10:42 PM | Link to this
Somewhere in Delaware a village is searching for its lost idiot. News Flash! He was in Dayton this afternoon with our state’s bumbling governor. Every time Biden opens his mouth, he reminds people what a complete mindless windbag he is. A classic example of the worst political hack of the worst sort. Hooray for the Tea Party Express! It is coming to a town near you!
By enough is enough
September 20, 2010 5:40 PM | Link to this
For anyone to vote democratic this time shows your either voteing party even if you knew it would take this country down on your a mindless fool.
By moose
September 20, 2010 5:14 PM | Link to this
You know, Obama didn’t start the ball rolling on bailouts for the country. This started with then-President Bush calling for a bail-out in Sept. 2008, when the banks were going under. Obama and the rest of the country are cleaning up that mess, which we all knew was going to take a long time. These comments are nothing but cowardly opportunists trying to keep us, the working poor, in our own place; broke with little hope. Gov. Strickland has handled his position incredibly well under extremely difficult circumstances. And Kasich’s ads are very misleading; Gov. Strickland did NOT lose NCR. They were gone before he came into the governorship.
By Greg
September 20, 2010 5:05 PM | Link to this
Thank you Joe Biden for reminding me exactly why I’m voting all liberal tax and spend idiots like Stricknine out of office. Good Bye!!!
By republicansaresleazy
September 20, 2010 4:51 PM | Link to this
The Republicans want to continue tax cuts for wealthy/corps with no strings attached. Don’t you think they should at least be required to show that they are creating American jobs, since that is the thought process? Republicans also want to dismantle/privatize YOUR social security and medicare, since they represent Wall Street and Insurance companies. Minimum wage increase? Don’t ask a Republican. Raise your standards, people, you are slumming when you vote Republican. Dems support extension of the Bush tax cuts for the middle class only, where it counts.
By floater74
September 20, 2010 4:48 PM | Link to this
biden is a political “hack.”
By Jerry
September 20, 2010 4:46 PM | Link to this
Strickland not only wants a chunk of your dollars while you are working, he also wants a big chunk of whatever you manage to save when you die. He is unwilling to modify Ohio’s estate taxes making them more like those of surrounding states.
By independent
September 20, 2010 4:42 PM | Link to this
Now I’m difinitley voting for Kasich.
By ed
September 20, 2010 4:25 PM | Link to this
Where were all the supporters? I think the lack of interest clearly shows just how lame the Obama agenda is. Bidden and most of those, including Obama, won’t ever be on anybody’s short list to run for office again, including for dog catcher. Somebody tell bidden that “it is so joe.”