Wednesday, November 18, 2009

11/18/09: Biden! Socialism! FAIL!

Screengrab: Huffington Post

Ladies and gentleman, the mask is off the Obama domestic agenda. And it is no surprise that the mask was pulled off by Joe Biden, unwittingly or not:

In an interview with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show Tuesday evening, Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged the anger and frustration many taxpayers feel over the way financial institutions seem to have favored status in Washington D.C.

Pointing to the hundreds of billions of government dollars that have been spent to keep banks from failing, he recalled a "great expression" of his grandfather, Ambrose Finnegan: "It's socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor," Biden said.

Source: Huffington Post

That's Joe Biden, doing his job... His job, of course, is to lob a bombshell into the public's psyche to soften the path for President Obama. You can bet that there will be denials from Robert Gibbs, to the effect of "Nobody's talking about socialism," or "What the Vice-President MEANT to say was..." but facts is facts:

The Vice President of the United States just proclaimed that socialism is being used to punish the most successful Americans.

God help us.