COCONUT CREEK, Florida (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden joked about his age with Florida retirees on Friday and portrayed Republican attempts to cut Social Security and Medicare as an attack on the dignity of aging Americans.
"I don't like that word 'elderly' anymore," the silver-haired and balding 69-year-old vice president joked at a packed retirement community recreation center in Florida. He said he preferred the phrase "more mature."
President Barack Obama dispatched Biden to Florida, an electoral battleground with the nation's largest concentration of people 65 and older, in an effort to paint a stark contrast between his approach to Social Security and Medicare and that of his Republican rivals.
"Look us over, look into your heart and ask ... who do you believe is genuinely committed to preserving the dignity of people in terms of their healthcare and their basic, basic ability to live?" Biden said.
4 comments:
Hold on a minute. Part of paying for Obamacare is 500 billion taken from Medicare. And to say that the republicans are attacking Medicare is a flat out lie.
can someone please shut the "vice president of lying" up ??
this man is a creep. foot in mouth is his disease coupled with clueless so as you can see, he doesn't have credibility. again; just shut him up !!
Biden is an idiot.
let him talk! His mouth is a great asset to the GOP
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