Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter defended Vice President Biden's remark that the middle class has been "buried' over the last four years on Wednesday.
Republicans have been hammering Biden over the remark, made during a campaign speech. On Tuesday during a stump speech in North Carolina, Biden said that "middle class has been buried the last four years." Mitt Romney's campaign quickly pounced on the statement. At a speech a few hours after Biden made the comment, Paul Ryan said the Romney-Ryan ticket agreed with him.
"Well if you look at what the vice president said and what he's been saying on the campaign trail is that the middle class has been buried by the exact same policies that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to go back to," Cutter said Wednesday on MSNBC.
Later on Tuesday, Biden modified his speech to say the middle class had been buried under policies pushed by Romney and Ryan.
Cutter repeated Biden's modified attack on Romney and Ryan.
"You shouldn't be cutting taxes for those at the top and asking the middle class to pay for it," Cutter said. "You shouldn't be undoing reforms on Wall Street that will prevent another taxpayer bailout. Those are the exact policies that crashed our economy in the first place and that's what Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are promising to take us back to. That's what the president — the vice president was communicating on the stump yesterday."
On Wednesday the Romney campaign
released a new Web video, "Couldn't Say It Better," featuring Biden's comment spliced together with statements by Romney and Ryan saying the middle class has suffered under the Obama administration.
