Ryan: I’d Be Treated Worse If I Made ‘Chains’ Gaffe (Cheese with that?)

[ProSense]

Ryan: I’d Be Treated Worse If I Made ‘Chains’ Gaffe

In an interview with the Tribune-Review on Friday, Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan said that he doesn't fear making gaffes, but that he would "have been treated much worse if he made the mistakes Biden has uttered."

Vice President Joe Biden was widely criticized by the Romney campaign this week after he told a North Carolina crowd that Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and the GOP would "put y'all back in chains." Biden and later Obama defended his remarks, saying they were taken out of context as he was referring to Wall Street.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ryan-id-be-treated-worse-if-i-made

Good grief. It's Mini Wimp!

[klook]

1. Welcome

to the fuckin' show.

[Johonny]

17. +1

[2pooped2pop]

2. was Ryan always a whiner

or is it rubbing off from the Mittster?

[chelsea0011]

3. 1. There are very few African Americans in any crowd you are in front of and 2.

that means no one would notice if you made any in chains references. The only reason Biden got into trouble is because Dems have diverse crowds. And, of course, Biden was taken out of context. I watched the speech and never thought oit had anything to do with his audience, but everything to do with what banks would like to do to all of us with no regs.

[sendero]

4. Biden didn't make a mistake..

... his comments, in context, are exactly correct.

[KansDem]

5. What "mistakes" did VP Biden make?

This?

I thought he was right on the money! The GOP is determined to put us all "back in chains."


J. J. Rousseau: Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains

Voltaire: It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere

Warren Buffett: Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken

Karl Marx: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

Charles Dickens: We forge the chains we wear in life

Indra Devi: Freedom is living without chains.


It's a manufactured "crisis" to sell "news."

[nc4bo]

6. FB friend said there were chants of: Obama! Obama! Obama! 4 more years! Along with

don't mess with our Medicare chants from seniors during or shortly after this circus show.

Good to know people are greeting him with proper southern hospitality where ever he shows up!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Difference between Ryan and Biden

is that Biden is VP to an actual African-American President and that said African-American President, Barack Obama, knew EXACTLY what Biden was talking about and what he meant. Some African-Americans might actually be offended to know that most CEO's- or at their Republican subordinates in Congress- view themselves as being "shackled" and that the Republicans have said that they want to "unshackle" the CEOs to be able to go back to what they've been doing whatever they want- like they did under the Bush (mis-)administration.

BTW is anybody outside of the GOP and MSM offended about this? I think that they're trying to get people worked up but coming from a group that has pitched the dog whistles and grabbed a bullhorn during this election so far, I'm not sure Biden's comments- in their actual context (not the "lie" context)- are offensive. But what the hell do I know?

[loyalsister]

8. I hate to say it, but I think he's correct here

Joe's comments were made in an insider context that softened the criticism.

Coming from an outsider we would all be up in arms about it.

Byrd was forgiven for being a member of the Klan but Trent Lott was run out of congress for supporting Strom Thurmond.

IMO He's right, but could never admit that's the way it should be.

[emulatorloo]

9. Ryan is a lying Republican Hypocrite. Every word out of his mouth is manipulative.

He is a disingenuous prick.

Even if he is "right", everything he says or does is to masquerade his own vile destructive agenda. There is nothing right about that.

He is not fit to even say the words "Joe Biden".

[loyalsister]

12. I was pointing out the irony

He is right on this one- and rightfully so.
The point he is probably incapable of grasping is that the reason he is right, is that the criticism would have been legitimate.
It's a stupid comment that I think people see through it.

[emulatorloo]

20. Yep!

[flamingdem]

13. I agree. This psychotic pissant is not fit to say Biden's name

Or Obama's. He's another one that should be in prison for intent to kill Americans with his policies.

[rbrnmw]

14. Paul Ryan and his ilk have gone against

The President of the United States because he knows his base is very racist VP Biden said nothing racist the GOP is racist to the core admitting to wanting this President to fail proves that to anyone with half a brain. The only reason they have gotten by with all they have is because of the President's skin color

[Curtland1015]

10. Translation: We really have nothing to attack Democrats on.

"We were praying like HELL that the public would be dumb enough to take Bidens statement out of context, but they didn't and it's infuriating that the people and MSM won't fall in line."

Sorry dummies.

[1-Old-Man]

11. He's right, it would be a lot worse if a racist asshole said it

but when Biden said it all we were seeing was truth from a man that no one in their right mind considers a racist. And that is the difference.

[gkhouston]

18. Some of Biden's "gaffes" are brain farts, but most of them are just plain speech.

Makes you wonder what sort of country we live in when truth-telling is considered a mistake.

[reflection]

15. And why is that, Mr. Ryan

Oh yeah, because your party has a history of that sort of dogwhistle. Oh well then.

[coalition_unwilling]

16. What a crock of hypothetical specious horseshit. Ryan would never and

could never have claimed that banks wanted to put anyone back in chains, because Ryan is in thrall to those very banks.

Ryan attacks Obama's stimulus program (ARRA) and then ABC News reveals that Ryan's office actually asked for stimulus funds. Is Ryan criticized for this blatant hypocrisy?

Give me a fucking break, you whiny fucking crybaby. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

[rbrnmw]

19. I'll 2nd that