. >> why am i the first kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get the university? why is gladys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations? >> biden saw the kinnock commercial and evidently loved it. >> was it because they were weak? those people who worked eight hours underground and then come up and play football weak? >> my ancestors who worked in the coal mines in pennsylvania don't come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours. >> biden had told other audiences he admired kinnock. not this one. this one he later said he had listening in hushed silence. >> no, it's not because they weren't smart. it's not because they didn't work as hard. it's because they didn't have a platform upon which to stand. >> anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment, of course not. it was because there was no platform upon which they could stand. >> aides to biden say another democratic campaign is passing out the kinnock commercial to discredit biden. that's true