Biden in SC: Republicans are down on America

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http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/president/candidates/obama/2013/05/03/biden-republicans-are-down-america/h5uBfeQzTwrSdVA4zNb1wI/story.html

Vice President Joe Biden is scolding Republicans in Congress, telling Democrats in South Carolina that the new Republican Party is down on America.

Biden is questioning what Republicans don’t understand about the U.S. and the people who built the country and fought to defend it.

He says the one thing all Democrats have in common is an absolute commitment to the middle class.

Biden spoke Friday night at an annual fundraising dinner for the South Carolina Democratic Party.

South Carolina Already Becoming Big 2016 State
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/03/south-carolina-2016_n_3211071.html
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"As soon as I show up in South Carolina, the Washington press corps comes out and says, `Is Biden getting ready?'" the vice president said at an annual party dinner, insisting that he came at the request of another Democrat, South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn. "I've got to make clear: I would go anywhere Jim asked me to go."

At the Democratic confab, more than 1,000 packed a convention center ballroom for the $125-per-person dinner, where Biden laid in to House Republicans for "fighting like the devil" for a budget plan that he said slashes education, undercuts law enforcement and gets rid of Medicare.

"Where are they from? What don't they understand about this country?" Biden said, his voice rising to a roar. "What don't they understand about those decent Americans, who paid their whole lives, who built this country, who fought in wars?"

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1. You tell 'em, Joe!