Biden’s Speech to the AFL-CIO Executive Conference
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 6th, 2009 5:37 am by HL
Biden’s Speech to the AFL-CIO Executive Conference
Fontainebleau Hotel Miami Beach, Florida 11:10 A.M. EST THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. (Applause.) Hey, thanks for the welcome. You make it believable. (Laughter.) I tell you what, it’s like visiting Jimmy Williams in Philadelphia. (Laughter.) Hey, it’s good to be — at least in my best comfort zone, man. The best place for me to be my whole career is surrounded by organized labor. And I know how to say “union.” (Applause.) And old joke, Mr. President, you know, you go home with them that brung you to the dance. Well, you all brought me to the dance a long time ago. And it’s time we start dancing, man. It’s time we start dancing. (Applause.)
Chipper on the Hill
WASHINGTON — For a politician who is caricatured as a San Francisco liberal and who is the target of increasing Republican ire, Nancy Pelosi is preternaturally chipper. Her eyes are animated, her ideas tumble forth. The House speaker clearly does not heed the warnings from the pundit chorus that says President Barack Obama has overloaded his agenda with too many big and contentious proposals, or that he risks failure in a Congress that likes to do things its own way, on its own timetable.
