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Biden: Democrats have lost faith in the American people

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Posted by Steve White 2007-11-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 When has Biden leveled with the American people?

Posted by mhw 2007-11-11 00:05|| 2007-11-11 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Dirty Nasty filthy traitors democrats. All of them.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-11-11 02:04|| 2007-11-11 02:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like a certain segment of the population has forgotten who's the boss. On both sides of the aisle. I believe that a public servant taking their position for granted is both a huge part and indicator of the problem.

Posted by gorb 2007-11-11 03:24|| 2007-11-11 03:24|| Front Page Top

#4 The converse?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-11-11 06:44|| 2007-11-11 06:44|| Front Page Top

#5 who'd he steal that quote from?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-11 07:06|| 2007-11-11 07:06|| Front Page Top

#6 When he asks groups of Democrats if they think the American people are stupid because they elected George W. Bush twice, most respond that, yes, they do, he said. He said he thinks that attitude is a real problem for the Democrats, who fail to understand how smart and pragmatic the American people really are.

Which just might make Joe the smartest Democrat alive.

Posted by Bobby 2007-11-11 07:27|| 2007-11-11 07:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Which just might make Joe the smartest Democrat alive

there goes Mr. Bobby, damning with faint praise. Rascal

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-11 07:39|| 2007-11-11 07:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Democrats have lost faith in the American people.

It's mutual.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-11 07:42|| 2007-11-11 07:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Weve got to trust the American people more, Biden said.

That's a pretty tall order, when your entire political philosophy is based on the belief that most people are too damn stupid to run their own lives without your "help," and that those who are smart enough to make it on their own need to be punished by being taxed to death.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-11-11 07:57|| 2007-11-11 07:57|| Front Page Top

#10 And they wonder whey we call them 'elites' or 'ruling class'?

Here's very old hint Senator -

Vox populi, vox dei

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-11 08:57|| 2007-11-11 08:57|| Front Page Top

#11 "Democrats...fail to understand how smart and pragmatic the American people really are."

I told a liberal sister largely the same thing a few years ago. But it's not about "leveling with" Americans, Joe. It's about faith in their moral compass.

Posted by Jules 2007-11-11 09:05|| 2007-11-11 09:05|| Front Page Top

#12 The donks are pissing away the gift the trunks handed them...and faster than I would have ever thought. The left wing donks have pushed the agenda far to the left, and the people (like it or not) are rejecting them.

I am hoping the trunks figure out hot button issues like immigration, NAFTA, tax increases, etc., when the pendulum swings back knocking pelosireid back to minority status.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-11-11 11:01|| 2007-11-11 11:01|| Front Page Top

#13 This is like Ted Kennedy saying he's lost faith in Mary Jo Kopechne's ability to swim...

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-11 11:13|| 2007-11-11 11:13|| Front Page Top

#14 When he asks groups of Democrats if they think the American people are stupid because they elected George W. Bush twice, most respond that, yes, they do, he said.

This sort of general contempt for the electorate hasn't been seen since Richard Nixon. It goes beyond ingratitude andas P2k capably notessmacks of elitism. When I was in high school, it was already quite clear to me that you should run like hell from anyone who tells you, "It's for your own good!" Hillary's recent socialistic quotes are stark evidence that "she knows better than we do". I can only hope she is prepared to realize that Americans know better than to elect her.

If the democrats are not "leveling" with the American people, it is because they have ulterior motives and hidden agendas. The immigration issue made it pretty clear that both sides of the aisle possess such flawed intentions. It's just that the democrats compound their error by being weak on national security while we are at war and pushing their multiculturalist platform during a time when the flood of immigrationespecially in the form of illegal entryneeds to be curtailed rather dramatically.

For democrats to mistrust the electorate represents a fundamental abrogation of leadership skills. It is akin to calling all of your closest personal friends idiots yet continuing to seek their approval.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-11 13:13|| 2007-11-11 13:13|| Front Page Top

#15 The donks are pissing away the gift the trunks handed them...and faster than I would have ever thought.

That is what donks do...and it's going at about the speed I would have expected. The astonishing thing is that this cycle has been repeated SO MANY times, and still almost half the country never learns.

Posted by Varmint Hupavinter2750 2007-11-11 15:55|| 2007-11-11 15:55|| Front Page Top

#16 Democrats have lost faith in the American people buying their malarkey.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-11-11 18:19|| 2007-11-11 18:19|| Front Page Top

#17 Has anyone seen the video?

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