Paul Ryan accuses Biden of stoking 'fear and envy'

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
8/17/2012
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Romney running mate says VP has sunk to low levels in campaign

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate Paul Ryan has taken umbrage over Vice President Joe Biden's recent remarks. Ryan declared that Biden's remarks that Republicans "are going to put y'all back in chains" and says that it is the sign of a "desperate" campaign trying to "stoke the emotions of fear and envy."

Obama VP Joe Biden bid controversy when he said, 'Look at what they [Republicans] value, and look at their budget. And look what they're proposing. [Romney] said in the first 100 days, he's going to let the big banks write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're going to put y'all back in chains.'

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "You know, these are the kinds of things you say when you're desperate in a campaign," Ryan told radio show host Sean Hannity on Fox News Radio. "I think you're going to hear more of these things as we go on because they have a terrible record and can't run on it so they're going to kind of sink this campaign to these low levels to distract people."

Ryan says that this will hardly be the first negative comment voters will hear from the Obama campaign, he believes "people are going to see through this.

"To try and you know, stoke the emotions of fear and envy, and it's just not going to work. People are going to see through this. We've gone from hope and change to anger and division and blame and attack and I think people are going to see through this," Ryan said.

Biden bid controversy when he said, "Look at what they [Republicans] value, and look at their budget. And look what they're proposing. [Romney] said in the first 100 days, he's going to let the big banks write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're going to put y'all back in chains."

Biden's comments were made at a rally in Danville, Virginia. A serious brouhaha has since erupted regarding the question of racial insensitivity on the part of the vice president.

Many feel that Biden's statement was exclusively geared to African-Americans, due to the history of slavery in the U.S. Much like the proverbial saying of "Let's take our country back," the idea of putting people "back in chains" is widely perceived to be a dog whistle for putting minorities, specifically African-Americans, back into some form of a subservient role.

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Keywords: Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, y'all, speech, Virginia, racism

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1 - 4 of 4 Comments

debbie
9 months ago
OK, this is just silly. If you look at this objectively it is just a case of Biden trying to say something clever and it backfired on him - plain and simple. And of course, the Republicans jumped all over it and blowing it all out of proportion. The only people who are "offended" are the people who hate Obama to begin with.
Kasoy
9 months ago
The campaign has sunk into emotional and fiery rhetorics. When politicians have no accomplishments to report to the citizens, they resort to the "blaming and smearing". The Dems have to continuously blame Bush for our economic crisis, the Rep-controlled Congress for the fiscal paralysis, European bail-out crisis for US slow recovery, China's unfair trade and monetary policies for our deficit, and those intolerant Christians and selfish rich who refuse to pay for abortions and pay their taxes for the suffering of the poor and sick. Not content with that, they have to smear Romney's and Ryan's reputation. What the people need to hear are what are being done and what has to be done to bring our economy back on its feet which is what Ryan is doing - presenting the GOP economic plans.
Nicole L.
9 months ago
Unfortunately Biden's message is what the media is showing to the world. I am convinced that not everyone hear the response from Paul Ryan to Biden's remarks. recently Fox news was asking people about their opinions on the.in coming election many did not know what Romney stands for. I myself does not know much about Romney except what the democrats put out.The media is doing everything to phase out Romney,,to make sure that our american people only see Obama and Michelle.. Every time you get in any site of the internet Michelle or Obama's face jumped at you. Where is Romney? Where is his message to the people. We only heard his mistakes but nothing positive about him. It is hard to beatt the democrats when every single Tv stations carry their flags, at the exception of Fox. . .
abey
9 months ago
Fear & Envy are the orders of the Biblical Beast emitted even through Apostates which is more than to just chains, but to the Biblical "Mark of the Beast" to Hell, the truth that Biden seems to underscore through Obama's & not to forget Hillary's alternate lifestyles, nothing but to hell, the alternate of heaven.

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