"When a woman got raped, blame her because she was wearing a skirt too short, she looked the wrong way or she wasn't home in time to make dinner," he said. "We've gotten by that."
Then Biden turned his focus to the current spending debate in which Democrats and Republicans are fighting over how much to cut from the federal budget.
"But it's amazing how these Republicans, the right wing of this party – whose philosophy threw us into this godawful hole we're in, gave us the tremendous deficit we've inherited – that they're now using the very economic condition they have created to blame the victim – whether it's organized labor or ordinary middle-class working men and women," he said.
"It's bizarre," he added.
I don't think a rape-analogy is anywhere appropriate in our national dialogue but I think the president just alienated a huge chunk of the women's vote on this one - never mind the Democrats are the ones in power who are responsible for the current debt and financial crisis - this is spinning soooooooo hard and who's going to believe them anyways? Who out here believes the republicans are the ones responsible for the deficit and spending the democrats passed with the stimulus bills and obamacare? Yeah....didn't think so.