What happened was there were some people who said they felt like they were being held hostage by terrorists,” Biden said. “I never said that they were terrorists or weren’t terrorists, I just let them vent.”
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., one of the most outspoken Tea Party-aligned lawmakers in Congress,called the remarks “insulting.”
“With the president holding the American economy hostage, I would prefer to think of myself as a Freedom Fighter,” Paul said in a statement
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