Biden Draws on Obama’s ‘Sketchy’ Romney Barb in Greeley
Biden Draws on Obama’s ‘Sketchy’ Romney Barb in Greeley - the Denver Post
Vice President Joe Biden clobbered Mitt Romney’s debate performance Wednesday in this working class Republican stronghold, saying the GOP presidential hopeful is out of touch, elitist and has a budget plan that will only hurt “average” Americans.
Borrowing from President Barack Obama’s line at the presidential debate Tuesday, Biden called Romney’s budget plan “sketchy” and said it wasn’t just the “Swiss bank accounts and the Cayman Islands” that made Romney out of touch, but that he was in a “1950s time warp.”
Biden said the budget plans slashes Medicaid spending, money for Pell Grants and turns Medicare into a “voucher” system.
“This was real,” he said. “If it weren’t so tragic, it would almost be funny.”
This was the vice president’s first stop in Colorado this campaign season. Obama has traveled to Colorado 13 times in his presidency — ten of those times were this year.
Much of his Biden’s 26-minute speech was devoted to propping up Obama after last night’s second presidential debate, after which his campaign claimed victory.
“How about … last night?” Biden said to the crowd of 1,100 gathered. “You all saw the man that I have sat with every day on an average of four to six hours a day. A man of principle, a man of gumption, a man of steady hand.”