Biden blasts 'uncertain' McCain team
Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 2:38 PM by Domenico Montanaro
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From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. --
Biden turned talk about the candidates’ associations back against
McCain, saying that one of the choices voters have is not just between
Obama and McCain, but between those who they’d enlist to help right the nation’s economy.
Obama, the Democratic veep candidate said, is “backed up by the finest economic advisers this country has ever seen.” McCain, however, has an “uncertain” team “backed up by some of the very same economic advisers that got us into this place in the first place.”
“Our administration will have the capacity to pull together, not only the leaders of both parties that Barack has in terms of economic advisers, but the leaders of both parties in Washington,” he said. “But even as important, call together world leaders, because this is a world economic problem. You've got to have the respect of leaders world leaders to get them to follow.”
Speaking for the second consecutive day before a small-town audience in the Show-Me State, Biden focused his remarks more on the economy and less so on the tactics of the McCain campaign, which had been a bigger focus yesterday. He echoed a familiar line from Hillary Clinton during her campaign, saying the backbone of a resurgent economy would be “jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs.”
“That’s why our plan, all of our plan, from infrastructure to energy to education to tax cuts to healthcare, they focus on one thing -- creating good paying jobs that give dignity and respect to the middle class,” he said.
Biden again said that McCain is “lurching back and forth” as he tried to show the country that he’d have a “steady hand,” but what he’s actually done is announce a mortgage plan that’s “bad for the American taxpayer, bad for the homeowners and bad for this economy.”
The Delaware senator’s stint in Missouri ends here, as he now flies to Chicago for a fundraiser involving Oprah Winfrey. After a down day this Saturday, he’ll head back to his boyhood home of Scranton, Pennsylvania, for a rally with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
