Biden and Harris will be the first presidential team without am ivy league degree between them in almost 50 years.
2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden got snippy at political pundits for pointing that out.
“Who the hell thinks you need an Ivy League degree to be president?” Biden told CNN in Pennsylvania during his first televised town hall as his party's standard-bearer.
"Guys like me, the first people in their family to go to college," he said. "We are as good as anybody else.”
Not only did Biden not go to an Ivy League school, but while a Senator he never did the fancy party scene in DC. He had a two hour commute to Delaware in front of him and wanted to be home in time to tuck the boys in. It cost him some in terms of connections with people but it was worth it for him. Hobnobbing with the elite has never been high on Biden’s list of things he wanted to do.
Biden’s parents raised him like this:
.@JoeBiden is a man who learned to treat every person he meets with respect and dignity, living by the words his parents taught him: “No one’s better than you, Joe, but you’re better than nobody.” That empathy, that decency, the belief that everybody counts—that’s who Joe is. pic.twitter.com/RW8o39zQJL— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 2, 2020
.@JoeBiden is a man who learned to treat every person he meets with respect and dignity, living by the words his parents taught him: “No one’s better than you, Joe, but you’re better than nobody.” That empathy, that decency, the belief that everybody counts—that’s who Joe is. pic.twitter.com/RW8o39zQJL
“No one’s better than you, Joe, but you’re better than nobody.”
Biden doesn’t think people are better than others because they have money and power. That just isn’t who he is.
Here is Biden talking about it himself:
I’ve dealt with guys like Donald Trump my whole life.Guys who look down on you because they’ve got a lot of money.Guys who think they’re better than you.Guys who inherited everything they ever got in life — and then squandered it. pic.twitter.com/o4q5M6VuJC— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 23, 2020
I’ve dealt with guys like Donald Trump my whole life.Guys who look down on you because they’ve got a lot of money.Guys who think they’re better than you.Guys who inherited everything they ever got in life — and then squandered it. pic.twitter.com/o4q5M6VuJC
Joe Biden doesn’t value people with money and connections more than people without. That may seem like an obvious statement, but it actually excludes a lot of politicians — on both sides of the aisle.
Joe Biden will be a great president.
This is Day 75 in my series 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden
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