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highplainsdem

(62,646 posts) Thu Jan 9, 2020, 09:02 PM Jan 2020

PolitiFact nails Sanders campaign's claim that Biden backed Paul Ryan on SS cuts as FALSE [View all]

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2020/jan/09/bernie-sanders/did-biden-laud-paul-ryan-proposal-cut-social-secur/

A Sanders campaign newsletter said, "In 2018, Biden lauded Paul Ryan for proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare."

That stems from a speech Biden gave in 2018 in which he spoke about Ryan. Biden appeared to be mocking Ryan, not praising him.

The Sanders campaign omitted what Biden said next: the importance of protecting Social Security and Medicare and to change the tax code, which he said benefitted the mega rich. Overall, the point of Biden’s speech was to criticize tax cuts for the rich and call for more help to the middle class.

The Sanders campaign plucked out part of what Biden said but omitted the full context of his comments.

We rate this statement False.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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PolitiFact nails Sanders campaign's claim that Biden backed Paul Ryan on SS cuts as FALSE [View all] highplainsdem Jan 2020 OP

Good. Facts. Kurt V. Jan 2020 #1

Putting out a newsletter with lies...is just disgusting. Demsrule86 Jan 2020 #2

Way disgusting. Eko Jan 2020 #3

Yes it is...I don't want to see this sort of thing in Democratic primaries...and no one else acts Demsrule86 Jan 2020 #35

+1 uponit7771 Jan 2020 #7

Thank you! Demsrule86 Jan 2020 #36

When you got nothing else. grantcart Jan 2020 #28

True and I thought the wine cave crap was disgusting too...and posted it too. Demsrule86 Jan 2020 #34

The suggestion about Biden and SS was FALSE, the wine cave was TRUE, My Pet Orangutan Jan 2020 #46

I don't object to Pete fund raising...everyone needs money to win...otherwise only the super Demsrule86 Jan 2020 #47

David Sirota strikes again, I presume. TwilightZone Jan 2020 #4

This is no surprise to me based on people he hired such as David Sirota. Nothing is beneath them, still_one Jan 2020 #5

This calls for repeating: George II Jan 2020 #6

Why is Sanders going scorched Earth now? tia uponit7771 Jan 2020 #8

Because he's desperate. Haggis for Breakfast Jan 2020 #17

I just remember this from him last year, this is only going to bring people down. He'd get more ... uponit7771 Jan 2020 #20

The fault dear Brutus is not in Sanders staff but in Sanders himself... comradebillyboy Jan 2020 #30

This is his normal mode of many years. Hortensis Jan 2020 #49

It's his last run. SaschaHM Jan 2020 #25

Joe has been a persistent advocate ritapria Jan 2020 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author marble falls Jan 2020 #14

While Biden was being a full time dem your guy was supporting dangerous dictators Thekaspervote Jan 2020 #18

Saying it won't make it true...Obama wanted the grand bargain remember. Demsrule86 Jan 2020 #37

Well said. Context matters. nt. MH1 Jan 2020 #40

Sanders campaign is all false innuendo and blatantly false narrative NYMinute Jan 2020 #10

A campaign willing to tell blatant lies about the opposition Progressive dog Jan 2020 #11

Yes wiley Jan 2020 #19

Whoever is responsible for this in the Sanders campaign should be fired. SunSeeker Jan 2020 #12

Sanders won't fire himself. comradebillyboy Jan 2020 #31

The buck stops with Sanders himself Blaukraut Jan 2020 #42

And if the buck doesn't stop with him now, I wonder when it will. nt GemDigger Jan 2020 #52

Dems attacking other Dems, especially about social security cuts, really angers me. Pepsidog Jan 2020 #13

Bernie's a Dem? Southern Blueneck Jan 2020 #21

How stupid do you have to be to Cha Jan 2020 #15

P.T. Barnum had a Pertinent Quote Southern Blueneck Jan 2020 #22

Yeah, I know.. Cha Jan 2020 #29

I really wish they would stop using "false" and use "a lie" instead. nt Blue_true Jan 2020 #16

And Yet. . . Stargleamer Jan 2020 #23

The words of a hack who was once fired for spreading racist lies about an opponent. RandySF Jan 2020 #27

The part of ". . .freezing Social Security. . ." Stargleamer Jan 2020 #39

He is combining two different things...decades apart....Biden did not advocate a freeze Demsrule86 Jan 2020 #48

Thought Sanders Rebl2 Jan 2020 #24

Repubicans do this all the time...although I don't want our candidates to have an elevated level of Demsrule86 Jan 2020 #38

If a candidate needs to lie about Joe RandySF Jan 2020 #26

Yup, Skidmore Jan 2020 #32

LOL NurseJackie Jan 2020 #43

K&R betsuni Jan 2020 #33

Kick! ehrnst Jan 2020 #41

K&R Tarheel_Dem Jan 2020 #44

Time for Sanders to exit. The Valley Below Jan 2020 #45

Post removed Post removed Jan 2020 #50

Kick! Cha Jan 2020 #51

K&R RandySF Jan 2020 #53