Robert Gibbs: Biden's "chains" remark was no more racial than Boehner saying "unshackle Wall Street"

Gibbs was asked by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace if the remark, made by Biden at a campaign stop in Virginia before a racially-mixed audience last week, was “race baiting.”

“No more race baiting than when John Boehner says ‘let’s unshackle Wall Street, let’s unshackle big business,’” said Gibbs.

“I think the vice president was correct in exactly how he explained what happens when we unshackle Wall Street and let Wall Street go back to writing its own rules.“

Asked if Biden was a “drag on the ticket,” Gibbs said “absolutely not.”