Biden Back on the Campaign Trail

After being out of the news since the VP debate due to the death of his mother, Biden spoke at the University of South Florida and at Ft. Myers' Florida Gulf Coast University. In both speeches he attacked McCain and Palin's performances in their debates and attacked McCain's health care plan. Biden also consistently compared McCain to Bush calling McCain "Bush 44." Biden demonized McCain and Palin's personal and irrelevant attacks on Obama as taking "the low road to the highest office in the land." Biden asserted that McCain and Palin have chosen to use "fear" tactics instead of intellectualism as their campaign the past couple of weeks. Biden believes that Americans can see through this and that Americans will not be distracted by McCain's attempts to take the focus off of the real issues and place them on Obama as a person.

Biden focused on McCain's health care plan and how it could threaten the benefits of 175 million Americans who receive their health care insurance through their companies. Biden acknowledged that McCain's plan isn't even popular with much of his own party.

Biden also pointed out that in last night's debate Obama proved that he understands that the debates and the election aren't about McCain, Palin, Obama, or Biden, rather they are about the American people. Biden asserted that the American people want "An optimist. Not an angry man lurching from one position to another." Biden described the economy as an "economic hell" that Americans have been living in for the past eight years. Biden argued that Obama will not just rescue the American economy but he will change the whole economic philosophy of America.

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