Vice President Biden to visit campus on Friday

By The Dartmouth Staff

Published on Wednesday, September 19, 2012

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Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden will visit Dartmouth on Friday to deliver speeches at a "grassroots event" on the lawn of Cutter-Shabazz Hall, according to a press release from the campaign to reelect President Barack Obama.

The event, which will begin at 1:15 p.m. and for which the doors will open at 11 a.m., is free and open to the public, but tickets are required to attend.

Biden will discuss the upcoming presidential election's effect on middle-class families and Obama's plan for reducing the national debt "in a balanced way that ensures everyone pays their fair share and still invests in the things we need to create jobs and grow our economy over the long term, like education, energy, innovation and infrastructure," according to the release.

Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 5 p.m. today in room 222 in the Collis Center. Tickets will also be available at Obama for America offices throughout New Hampshire.

The Bidens will also attend an event in Concord on Friday, as well as events in Merrimack and Manchester on Saturday.

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I look forward to Veep and Veepess Biden’s visit to Cutter-Shabazz Hall. I will bet that he’ll talk about the Republicans and Romney “Puttin' y'all back in chains,” as he screamed out, with what he thought was his best rendition of someone talking like a black person, to a mostly black audience. This happened just recently. Joe Biden is an extreme leftist, in fact the 3rd most left Senator in the U.S. Senate, one to the left of Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who calls himself a socialist. However Biden isn’t as extreme as President Obama, who was 3 Senators to the left of the socialist Sanders and two to the left of the extreme leftist Joe Biden. A fake “grass-roots” event on the grass-lawn of Cutter-Shabazz, where the Bidens will astro-turf their as—s off. “They’ll put y'all back in government chains.”

By on Sep 19 | 3:51 pm

What are you talking about? You clearly didn’t major in Political science otherwise you’d know that Obama is moderate, very much so. I don’t know enough about Biden but I’d say he’s not as left as you say he is. Furthermore America in general is actually to the right of the spectrum. A strong conservative in Europe would still be to the left of most of our American spectrum. And we’re very far from socialism. If you asked a European is America socialist they’d laugh to your face. Our taxes are some of the lowest taxes in the modern world, our safety net is extremely minor compared to other wealthy countries, and we are, by every definition of the words: free enterprise and capitalist dominated. Anyways leave your misinformed political comments off this site.

By on Sep 19 | 6:24 pm

Ever heard of “National Journal”? If not look it up on your computer. National Journal ranks every Senator and House member at least every two years, based on their ACTUAL VOTING RECORD IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. (This shows how completely clueless your post is.) Do you know more about who Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator (D-VT) than he does? He calls himself a Socialist knowing full well what that means. The man may live in his own delusion but he is not stupid. National Journal ranked Obama #1 most leftist idiot politician in the U.S. Senate for the years 2007-2008…the only years he was in the U.S. Senate, he took top leftwing honors. He was 25 Senators to the left of Teddy Kennedy for God’s sakes. The Socialist Bernie Sanders, only made it to #4 most left wing nut, Joe Biden was just to the left of the socialist Sanders, Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator of Rhode Island was number #2 and Barack Obama was number one. Don’t give me the BS about the U.S. and Europe. The Communist Party U.S.A. didn’t run a national ticket for the first time since the 1930’s in 2008. Why? Because they heartily endorsed Senator Barack Obama and they do not have a national presidential, vice presidential ticket in 2012 either. Want to guess why? Because they have endorsed Barack Obama. “We are very far from socialism.” That isn’t the question. The question is how far are Obama and Biden from socialism. Ask Bernie Sanders how far from socialist he is. He says he is one. And then look up National Journal’s respected and conclusive rankings of the ideology of U.S. politicians according to their actual votes on real legislation. You clearly didn’t major in the truth or having an interest in it. Our taxes in total are not among the lowest in the “modern” world, I guess you mean “developed” world. Are you sure you majored in anything? Our corporate tax rate, federal and state together are the highest in the “modern” world. Really they are the highest in the world and the combination of Social Security, Medicare, medicaid, and Income tax on the federal level combined with state income and sales taxes, local sales taxes and property taxes, put this country right up with the top taxing and spending nations in the world. Our “extremely minor” safety net pays 100 million of our 300 million people to do nothing but go out and buy stuff to eat and more stuff to sit on and other stuff to watch…this extremely minor safety net transfer payment, theft, is enough to put these poor people in the top 15% in terms of standard of living of all people on the face of the earth. “Anyways” isn’t a word and I should leave my misinformed political comments off this site? Where did you attend school prior to Dartmouth College? Romper Room Day Care?

By on Sep 19 | 7:12 pm

Joe Biden is the best thing since Dan Quayle. He is a real hoot. Go see Joe. It is well worth the price of admission. (Yeah, I know it’s free.)

By on Sep 20 | 1:53 am

If you want to learn the truth about what President Obama’s plans are for the future, don’t waste your time on the Cutter-Shabazz Lawn on Friday. Go see Dinesh D'Souza’s “2016 – Obama’s America.” D'Souza is a great American scholar and a Dartmouth (‘83) grad (though, obviously, not to be confused with D'Suess).

By on Sep 20 | 2:03 am

So according to the National Journal’s made-up criteria Obama was more liberal than all other Senators during one year, someone who is not Barack Obama called himself a socialist, and a moribund political party didn’t field a presidential candidate in 2008. Therefore, Barack Obama is a socialist. The logic is simply irresistible!

And, yes, go see Great American Scholar ™ Dinesh D'Souza’s film about how Dodd-Frank is part of an anti-colonialist scheme to get revenge on whitey.

By on Sep 20 | 6:38 pm

How about posting my response to K.?

By on Sep 22 | 1:30 am

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