So Biden is not allowed to talk about the effect poverty can have on crime according to the GOP?

[applegrove]

Why? My guess is the GOP see themselves a TOUGH ON CRIME and if they let inequality, and poverty grow, while police are cut, they are in fact increasing the crime rate. Clinton increased the police by 100,000 and the crime rate went way down. This is why the GOP reacted so strongly to what Biden said. Biden pointing this out goes to the heart of the traditional GOP platform.

[msongs]

1. it is biden's job to point out this stuff...as VP and as party leader nt

[applegrove]

2. Yup. This is the traditional role for the vp. I hope Obama hits back with that.

[gateley]

3. What did he say -- and what did THEY say? (I missed something, here.) nt

[Ken Burch]

4. Then again, OUR party's leaders haven't been willing for years now

to seriously discuss the connection between poverty and crime. If Biden can even get that conversation restarted in THIS party, that's a good thing.

We've got to let go of the fetish for "toughness".

[butterfly77]

5. They continually complain about...

how,when or where this administration campaign when the republiCONS have been campaigning, every since Obama took office.

[Riftaxe]

6. Poverty is not the only factor in crime

sure it is a contributing factor, but not all people in poverty are criminals, try to avoid group think.

[Mass]

7. Well, most Democrats would not talk about poverty anyway.

All they can talk about is the middle class.

So, good for Biden to talk about that.

[applegrove]

8. He wasn't talking about poverty per se. He was talking about a lack of police.

I wonder what the crime stats are.

[malaise]

9. Fugg the ReTHUGS

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