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*Biden's son campaigns in
Derry*<http://www.eagletribune.com/newhampshire/x1618663120/Bidens-son-campaigns-in-Derry>

*Eagle Tribune // John Toole*

The younger Biden, campaigning at MaryAnn’s Diner, near Pinkerton Academy
where Ryan headlined a rally last weekend, said his dad’s mission is
foremost about taking the Democratic ticket’s case to voters. “What he’s
most prepared to do, though, is not just be prepared to debate Congressman
Ryan, but to speak directly to the American people,” Biden said.


*News 9 at Five*<http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=8e634174-73e2-46b4-8725-aeaaa020f1ef>

*WMUR-MAN (ABC) - Manchester, NH*

Well, the son of Vice-President Joe Biden was in New Hampshire today. Beau
Biden stopped at a couple of fire house ins Manchester and Exeter this
afternoon. He was asked about last night's debate, the former Delaware
Attorney General went right to the issue of Medicare. “Governor Romney
embraced fully his the voucherization of Medicare.


*Biden’s son says in Exeter, VP ready to debate
Ryan*<http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121005/GJNEWS_01/121009759>

*Foster's Daily Democrat // Jim Haddadin*

During a swing through the Granite State on Thursday, Delaware Attorney
General Beau Biden said his father is preparing methodically for a
nationally televised debate next week against Republican Congressman Paul
Ryan. Beau Biden said his father and their friends have lived a middle
class life, which will be reflected in his pitch to voters. “He’s a very
effective communicator to the middle class — a champion for and defender of
the middle class,” Beau Biden said.


*QUICK TAKES*<http://www.unionleader.com/article/20121004/NEWS0602/710049999/1010/NEWS06>

*Union Leader // John DiStaso*

Vice President Joe Biden's son, Beau, the attorney general of Delaware,
will campaign for his father and President Obama today at firefighters
events in Manchester and Exeter.


On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Molly Magarik <molly.magarik@gmail.com>wrote:

> Transcript and video from the MSNBC interview, as well as clips from NH
> and MA are below--
>
>
>
> *11:45 AM ET: MSNBC Live *(Rough Transcript)
>
> Beau Biden, Attorney General for Delaware
>
> VIDEO:
> http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=1a2af894-2dfe-47ee-a8ea-e93fdcfa288e
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> THOMAS ROBERTS: so let's bring in beau biden, attorney general for the
> state of delaware. he is also a major in the delaware national guard
> having served a 12-month deployment in iraq. he's also the vice
> president's son. mitt romney has hammered president obama for the automatic
> military cuts that could take place as a result of congress failing to
> reach a debt deal. even the defense secretary said the cuts could be staef
> dating. does that hurt the president in the vet community?
>
>
>
> BEAU BIDEN: number one, congress must act and avoid sequestration op
> any of these defense cuts. number two, you know, governor romney seems to
> confuse the defense budget from the veterans budget. what i have spent the
> last several months talking about is the president's, not just
> his decisiveness as a what happeneder and chief and what a strong leader
> he's been and going after al qaeda around the world and eliminating osama
> bin laden from the face of the earth, but also honoring the commitment to
> veterans. you know, mitt romney, as you well know, spent his
> entire convention speech accepting his party's nomination to be commander
> in chief and didn't mention those serving in what will be america's longest
> war in afghanistan and didn't mention veterans once. his website didn't
> mention veterans until sometime this summer. the president has made
> sure we've honored our commitment to veterans, increased funding
> for veterans by more than any president has in 30 years. there's a very
> stark contrast just on the issues of veterans alone.
>
>
>
> ROBERTS: let's talk as you bring up this great distinction between a vet
> budget and the defense budget, something the defense -- the defense bth is
> something mitt romney wants to increase, something they're not even asking
> for.
>
>
>
> BIDEN: that's right. he's asking for $2 trillion beyond what the pentagon
> has asked for and as smart as he and paul ryan are, they act like that's
> the answer to making sure we take care of veterans. as you know, the
> veterans piece of the pie is over here, the defense budget is over
> here. and the paul ryan budget, the romney/ryan budget would cut veterans
> affairs funding by $11 billion in the first year. look, we're a nation that
> has been in war for ten years, one of which will be our longest war, only
> less than 1% of our population is serving in those two wars. it seems as
> though mitt romney and paul ryan are more interested in making sure
> that 0.1% of our population gets a massive tax cut than making sure we
> honor our commitment to those who served in iraq and afghanistan over the
> last decade representing less than 1% of our population. it's a matter of
> values and what you value. look, these are honorable, decent men, but they
> seem to value making sure that the wealthiest among us get a tax cut on the
> backs of veterans, 22 million strong in america, 1 million in ohio, many,
> many in iowa and new hampshire where i just was, and less than 1% of them
> having served over the last decade.
>
>
>
> ROBERTS: beau, you bring up the romney/ryan plan, specifically paul ryan's
> plan is what has gotten a lot of press over the last year, but when we
> speak about the preps that your dad is going through to get ready for the
> vice presidential debate against congressman ryan, what do you know? what
> insight can you give us about how your dad is getting ready for that?
>
>
>
> BIDEN: well, he's methodically preparing to understand and have a clear
> sense of what paul ryan's budget is about and it's been adopted by the
> united states house of representatives and been embraced by
> governor romney, understand his plan tom, by the way, with
> governor romney's plan to voucherize the va. he's studying very hard. paul
> ryan is a skilled debater, a skilled -- very -- he's very smart,
> encyclopedic knowledge of the budget he's proposed and the domestic issues
> that are out there, working hard to prepare methodically for the
> debate against sarah palin, so he's working very hard.
>
>
>
> ROBERTS: delaware attorney general Beau Biden, thanks for coming on today.
>
>
>
>
> <http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20121004-NEWS-121009855>
>
> *Recalling family tragedy, Beau Biden thanks firefighters in Exeter*<http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20121004-NEWS-121009855>
>
> *Aaron Davis//Seacoast Online//Exeter News Letter*
>
>
>
> EXETER — A campaign stop at the Exeter Fire Department was emotional for
> Beau Biden on Thursday.
>
> During a Firefighters for Obama event, the eldest son of Vice President
> Joe Biden recalled the tragic accident that took the life of his mother and
> sister 40 years ago.
>
>
>
> “Firefighters have been there for my family at every important moment of
> my life,” said Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden said to the assembled
> bucket brigade in the truck bay at the Exeter Fire Department.
>
> “When I was a young kid in '72, my dad had just got elected to the Senate,
> and we were out getting a Christmas tree when we were hit by a
> tractor-trailer,” he said. “I lost my mom and my sister, and my brother and
> I survived. The people that helped us, helped my family at that moment,
> were your brothers and sisters in yellow.”
>
>
>
> Biden, who serves as the attorney general of Delaware and is an Iraq war
> veteran, was first elected attorney general in 2006 and served a yearlong
> tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Iraq from 2008 to 2009.
>
> Rich Curtis, president of the International Association of Firefighters
> Local 3491, was appreciative of Biden's support and that of President
> Barack Obama.
>
>
>
> “All the guys here, Shane, Mike, Lee, Jason, firefighting is in our blood,
> it's a family,” Curtis said. “We work hard and make life and death
> decisions every day. We don't want medals or accolades, but we want to know
> our future is secure and to be treated like the professionals we are.”
>
>
>
> <http://exeter.patch.com/articles/beau-biden-campaigns-tor-obama-in-exeter> Beau
> Biden Campaigns for Obama in Exeter
> <http://exeter.patch.com/articles/beau-biden-campaigns-tor-obama-in-exeter>
>
> Joe Biden's son stressed the importance of public employees like cops and
> firefighters.
>
> *Jason Claffey//Exeter Patch*
>
>
>
> Vice President Joe Biden's son, Beau, stressed the importance of public
> employees like cops and firefighters during a campaign rally in Exeter
> today.
>
>
>
> Beau Biden <http://attorneygeneral.delaware.gov/office/biography.shtml>,
> Delaware's Attorney General and an Iraq War veteran, was accompanied by
> local firefighters at the Exeter Fire Station. Earlier in the day, he
> attended a similar rally in Manchester.
>
> Much of his talk focused on how his father and President Obama are
> fighting for the middle class, people like the firefighters who were on
> hand, while Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are focused on cutting taxes for the
> "0.1 percent."
>
>
>
> Biden called firefighters "essential elements of the fabric of our
> community," and urged the 50 or so people in attendance to work hard to get
> his father and Obama elected.
>
> If Romney is elected, he said, it will result in "massive, massive cuts in
> our ability and your ability to do your jobs."
>
>
>
> During a brief interview after his remarks, Biden rejected the narrative
> that Romney won Wednesday's debate with Obama, and said his father is hard
> at work preparing for next week's debate with Ryan.
>
>
> "I thought the president did a great job articulating his vision," he said.
>
>
>
> Biden said he expects his father to continue to focus on the message that
> the current administration is fighting for the middle class.
>
>
>
> "That's what my Dad's been talking about, and I anticipate you'll be
> hearing a lot about that on Thursday," he said.
>
>
>
> Beau Biden Blasts GOP Position on Veterans* *<http://londonderry.patch.com/articles/beau-biden-blasts-gop-position-on-veterans> (video
> included in the link)
>
> *The eldest son of vice president Joe Biden stopped in Derry on Oct. 4. *
>
> *Michael Ryan//Londerry Patch *
>
>
>
> Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the eldest son of vice president Joe
> Biden, slammed the GOP ticket on Oct. 4 for what he called a "different set
> of priorities" for the country's veterans.
>
>
>
> Speaking to media at MaryAnn's Diner in Derry, Biden, an Iraq veteran,
> criticized Ryan's budget plan, which he said calls for a "20 percent ax" on
> everything other than defense, which would include Veteran Affairs.
>
>
>
> "If you apply a 20 percent cut as Paul Ryan wants to do and I believe his
> math on it, it amounts to an $11 billion cut in year one to the VA, 85
> percent of which goes to meet the healthcare needs of our veterans, who are
> 22 million (people) in America," Biden said.
>
>
> Biden clarified that it's not about his father exploiting Ryan on foreign
> policy in next week's vice presidential debate in Kentucky, but rather
> laying out his plan as well as President Obama's plan for the next four
> years.
>
>
> Four years ago, when the vice president debated Sarah Palin on the
> national stage, it was one day before that Beau Biden was deployed overseas.
>
>
>
> He explained that veteran issues are extremely important to him, and are
> much of what he is campaigning on in New Hampshire and in other
> battleground states around the country.
>
>
> Biden criticized Romney's plan to increase the defense budget by $2
> trillion, something that was also attacked by President Obama during the
> first presidential debate, which Biden watched with his wife.
>
>
> "That's $2 trillion dollars more than they have asked for," Biden said.
>
>
>
> He accused Romney of not mentioning veterans during both the debate and
> the Republican National Convention speech. Biden also said that the
> 59-point plan that Romney has been pushing does not mention veterans at all.
>
>
>
> Asked why Romney's "47 percent of Americans" comments from a private
> fundraiser earlier this year were not brought up by President Obama last
> night, Biden said that a lot depends on the moderator and the opportunities
> that he or she provides for the candidates.
>
>
>
> But Biden didn't hesitate to blast the surreptitiously taped comments,
> which he said shows Romney calling those 47 percent "entitled."
>
>
>
> "I know those people, they don't consider themselves victims (and) they
> don't consider themselves entitled," he said. "In fact, the veterans, the
> disabled veterans, they don't feel as though they are entitled to making
> sure that the VA provides benefits and provides for their healthcare. They
> are actually entitlements that they earned, that they in many cases shed
> blood for."
>
>
>
>
>
>
> <http://attleboro.patch.com/articles/vice-president-s-son-campaigns-for-kennedy>
>
> *Vice President's Son Campaigns for Kennedy *<http://attleboro.patch.com/articles/vice-president-s-son-campaigns-for-kennedy>
>
> *Democratic congressional candidate Joe Kennedy III celebrates his 32nd
> birthday in Attleboro speaking about support for military veterans.*
>
> *Jonathan Friedman//Attleboro-Seekonk Patch*
>
>
>
> Republican congressional candidate Sean Bielat<http://attleboro.patch.com/articles/sean-bielat-republican-candidate-for-us-congress-in-mass-4th-district>has military experience, but the son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told
> an audience in South Attleboro on Thursday that Bielat's Democratic
> opponent Joe Kennedy III<http://attleboro.patch.com/articles/joe-kennedy-iii-democratic-candidate-for-us-congress-in-mass-4th-district>was the best person to represent veterans in Washington.
>
>
>
> After spending the day in New Hampshire campaiging for his father and
> President Barack Obama<http://londonderry.patch.com/articles/beau-biden-blasts-gop-position-on-veterans>, Delaware
> Attorney General Beau Biden came to the American Legion Post 312 in South
> Attleboro for the nighttime event called "Veterans for Joe Kennedy."
> Kennedy is running against Bielat for the seat in the U.S. House
> representing Massachusett's 4th District, which includes Attleboro and
> Seekonk.
>
>
>
> Biden, who served in Iraq from 2008 to 2009 as a member of the Delaware
> Army National Guard's Judge Advocate General's Corps, said the Republicans
> running for the White House and the 4th Congressional District seat are
> "patriotic" and "honorable, decent men," who have "a different set of
> values" from the Democrats in those contests.
>
>
>
> He claimed a federal budget proposed earlier this year by vice
> presidential candidate Paul Ryan would cut the U.S. Department of Veterans
> Affairs' annual budget by $11 billion, 85 percent of which goes to medical
> care.
>
>
>
> "We have a very, very stark choice to make in this election, in this
> congressional district … and nationally with Joe Kennedy and Barack
> Obama," Biden said.
>
>
>
> Kennedy, who was celebrating his 32nd birthday, made various promises on
> what he would do for veterans if elected.
>
>
>
> "I will fight to make sure that those returning vets have the employment
> they have fought for and deserve when they come home, that when they return
> home, those veterans will not have to wait months or even years to get the
> benefits they have earned and deserved, that our ... country makes the
> investments we need in order to address the wounds of war—both physical and
> unseen," the candidate said.
>
>
>
> Kennedy said he would also make sure female veterans "get equal levels of
> benefits, care and respect as well."
>
>
>
> Biden and Kennedy were introduced by state Sen. James Vallee (D-Franklin),
> who is a lieutenant colonel in the Army National Guard. Vallee said there
> would be no better friend for veterans in Washington than Kennedy.
>
>
>
> "Joe has been an incredibly thoughtful and hard-working candidate," Vallee
> said. "He has earned the right to be our congressman. Not only has Joe been
> right on the issues, Joe has shown that he understands this district … and
> he'll be a great advocate for us in D.C., particularly on veterans issues."
>
>
>
>
> Vice president's son stumps for Kennedy in Attleboro<http://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/vice-president-s-son-stumps-for-kennedy-in-attleboro/article_84f7319e-6fcc-505a-9f17-b158f6db3948.html> Jim
> Hand//Attleboro Sun Chronicle
>
> *ATTLEBORO* - The son of Vice President Joe Biden came to Attleboro
> Thursday to ask military veterans to get behind the election of his father,
> President Barack Obama and congressional candidate Joseph Kennedy III so
> they can fight to protect veterans services.
>
>
>
> Beau Biden, the attorney general of Delaware, spoke in favor of Kennedy to
> a full house at the American Legion Post in South Attleboro after
> campaigning in New Hampshire for the presidential ticket.
>
>
>
> A major in the Delaware National Guard who served in Iraq, the younger
> Biden said 50,000 servicemen and women have been wounded in the wars in
> Afghanistan and Iraq, and they deserve the best medical care the United
> States can provide.
>
>
>
> He said Republicans want to cut $11 billion per year from the Veterans
> Administration, 85 percent of which would come out of health care for
> veterans, while supporting tax cuts for the wealthiest.
>
>
>
> The cuts would come as a result of the budget proposed by Mitt Romney's
> running mate, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, he said.
>
>
>
> Romney and Ryan also want to turn medical care for veterans into a voucher
> system, Biden said.
>
> Obama, Joe Biden and Kennedy all oppose the cuts, the younger Biden said.
>
>
>
> The Obama administration, he said, has instead increased funding for
> veterans by 10 percent and added more claims processors to handle the crush
> of returning wounded veterans applying for benefits.
>
>
>
> "We have a very stark choice to make in this district," he said of race
> between Kennedy and Republican Sean Bielat.
>
>
>
> The Republicans are "honorable, decent men, but they have a different
> value set," he said.
> Congressionalhopeful Joe Kennedy III enlists Beau Biden to kick off
> 'Veterans for Joe' campaign initiative<http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/10/congressional_hopeful_joe_kenn_2.html>
>
> *Robert Rizzuto//The Republican*
>
>
>
> Delaware Attorney General and Iraq war veteran Beau Biden joined
> congressional candidate Joseph Kennedy III<http://topics.masslive.com/tag/joseph-kennedy-iii/index.html>on Thursday for the campaign's "Veterans for Joe" kickoff in Attleboro.
>
>
>
> Kennedy, the son of former U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy II and a grandson of
> the late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is aiming to win the seat to be left
> behind when U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Newton, retires at the end of his
> term. He is facing Republican competition from Marine and businessman Sean
> Bielat <http://topics.masslive.com/tag/sean-bielat/index.html>.
>
>
>
> Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, talked up Kennedy's commitment to
> veterans and public service.
>
>
>
> “Veterans across the district, the Commonwealth and the country have a
> friend and advocate in Joe Kennedy,” Biden said in a statement. “Joe is the
> real deal—he understands the challenges our brave servicemen and women face
> when they come home and will work tirelessly to ensure they have the
> benefits and care they have earned and deserve.”