Promise Me, Dad:, by Joe Biden: on Welfare & Poverty


Joe Biden: Defining issue as Obama VP: restoring the middle class

[During Obama's vetting for selecting Biden for V.P.], I remember exactly when it became clear to me that this would be the right thing to do. I already knew from the presidential primary debates and from working with him on the Foreign Relations Committee that we did not have substantive differences on issues. What differences there were, were tactical. But I asked him in Minneapolis if he really meant what he said: that he wanted me to help him govern, especially in foreign policy matters. He said he did. And I asked him if he meant what he said about the restoration of the middle class being a defining issue of his presidency.

"Yes," he said. "I really mean it." I believed him. I was convinced he was an honest and thoroughly honorable man who kept his word. I was also convinced that he could be a really good president.

Source: Promise Me, Dad,by Joe Biden, p. 63-4 Nov 14, 2017

  • The above quotations are from Promise Me, Dad
    A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose,
    by Joe Biden    .
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2020 Presidential contenders on Welfare & Poverty:
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Gov.John Kasich(OH)
V.P.Mike Pence(IN)
Pres.Donald Trump(NY)
Gov.Bill Weld(MA) 		Democrats:
V.P.Joe Biden(DE)
Sen.Bernie Sanders(VT)
Sen.Elizabeth Warren(MA)

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Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Howard Schultz(I-WA)
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