On Friday, Vice President Joe Biden told the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Florida that the "great" cities of the world are in China, not the United States.
“I wish you could travel around the world with me, 600,000 miles so far just as Vice President,” he said, adding that he wished he could show them cities in China, Charlie Spiering reported at the Washington Examiner.
“If I blindfolded Americans and took them into some of the airports or ports in China, and then took one of them to any of your cities in the middle of the night just so that they could see it,” Biden said. “And then said, ‘which one is... your city in America and which one is in China,’ most Americans would say, ‘That great one is in America.’”
“It’s not.” Biden said.
"But why he felt the need to state his opinion publicly (in front of an audience of American mayors, mind you) is beyond me," Daniel Doherty wrote at Townhall.
"Both Obama and Biden really don’t think much of the United States, do they?" Bryan Preston asked at PJ Media.
The Vice President spoke for a little over a half hour after arriving at Orlando shortly before 11 a.m., just a few minutes before his scheduled speech.
While the Orlando Sentinel reported on Biden's visit, no mention was made of the comment.
A Google search using the term "Biden great cities" returned no results from the so-called mainstream media as of this writing.
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