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Biden quotes Brooks on “invisible moral fabric that holds up society” being torn by Trump. “We’ve got to put it back together, and we can’t wait a long, long time on this,” he says. Biden adds: “Whoever the nominee is, I’m going to break my neck to make sure they get elected."
Biden talks Medicare-for-all, saying proponents “mean well.” But: “I don’t want to start over. How many of you out there have had someone you’ve lost to cancer? Or cancer yourself? No time, man. We cannot have a hiatus of six months, a year, two, three, to get something done."
Biden was introduced by George Maglaris, a county commissioner who said, “I hope that you will join me in putting an adult back in the White House.” That echoes a theme Biden has hit lately, warning that the next president has one shot to undo Trump's damage on the world stage.
Biden brings up climate change, directs attendees to his website and -- implying that other Democratic proposals are politically untenable -- says: “I think I have the most far-reaching plan that is within reach.”
Biden on Democratic criticism: “There’s a lot of good people running. But we should be talking about the future, not the past.” “The good news about being a front-runner is you’re a front-runner. The bad news about being a front-runner is everybody’s behind you, and looking.”
Biden says he'll get involved in #KYSen: "I’m going to make sure that I do everything in my power to beat Mitch McConnell in the state of Kentucky. We can win Kentucky."
"I don’t say that with animus, but he’s on the wrong side of every major issue affecting the public."
After his event wrapped, Biden was surrounded by about 20 protesters with the @NHYouthMovement who held signs critical of the Obama administration’s deportations. (They had a kayaker with a sign, too.)pic.twitter.com/E7Ic59db1D
What is he babbling about
Wait, is he saying implementing Medicare-for-all would mean abolishing the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. as they currently exist and only THEN trying to pass a Medicare-for-all bill? Either something's happened to him since 2008 or he thinks the rubes are especially stupid.
It’s the 2016 Hillary defense. As dishonest now as it was then.
He’s such a liar. People defending Mitt Romney’s health care plan (aka. ACA) have to be. Millions of people transition to Medicare every year. It’s not disruptive, except to the profits of the bloodsucking private health insurance industry.
No matter who is elected president in 2020, there will be no Medicare-for-all in the near future. And yes, such a massive transition would be disruptive.
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