During a visit to the Rotary Club in Columbia, SC, he blamed Mexico for illegal immigration.
From Yahoo! News:
Mexico is a country that is an erstwhile democracy where they have the greatest disparity of wealth," Biden said. "It is one of the wealthiest countries in the hemisphere and because of a corrupt system that exists in Mexico, there is the 1 percent of the population at the top, a very small middle class and the rest is abject poverty.
Let's see..."erstwhile democracy", great "disparity of wealth", "wealthiest" country in the hemisphere, "corrupt system", etc.
Sen. Biden has never seemed like an economic populist to me (though I have to admit, I've never paid much attention to him) so I have to wonder:
Is he really serious with his statement, or is it the opening salvo of a populist, grassroots-based campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination for President?
If, with his statement, he intends to use Mexico as a rhetorical stand-in for the U.S., he's being way too subtle for the American political scene.
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