Just over an hour ago, Joe Biden suggested to students at New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University that the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street share common ground, stating that what both movements say at their core is, “Hey, the deal is not fair anymore.”
Biden then got poetic, quoting from Irish poet William Butler Yeats' "Easter 1916":
All changed, changed utterly
A terrible beauty is born
As the name implies, the poem was Yeats' torn tribute to Irish nationalists failed uprising against British rule on Easter Day, 1916.
The Vice President commented briefly on today’s events in Libya. Regarding the alleged capture and killing of Muammar Qaddafi, Biden could only say, “I don’t know. I can’t confirm that right now.”
Biden did go to some lengths to portray the victory of Libyan rebels over Qaddafi’s forces as proof that the U.S. and NATO were right to intervene.
He also made a pitch for the America Jobs Act at the event, which was live streamed on the White House website.
“Our jobs bill will support 400,000 education jobs,” he claimed, noting that an equivalent number of educators have recently been put out of work.
“The goal of the America Jobs Act is to put people back to work now. Today.”
Joe Biden is scheduled to appear at the State House in Concord between 3:30 and 4:30 PM today, where he will officially kick-off President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign in New Hampshire by signing paperwork with Secretary of State William Gardner.
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