The Vice-Presidential Debate: Sen. Biden

You’ve heard a lot about John McCain and Barack Obama, and last night you continued to hear about them, except this time it was from their running mates. Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin took to the stage to appear before America and do their best to convince them why their candidate needs to be the next leader of the free world.

The Vice-Presidential Debate: Sen. Biden

Responding to the first question, Sen. Biden said, “I think it's neither the best or worst of Washington, but its evidence of the fact that the economic policies of the last eight years have been the worst economic policies we've ever had.”

Obama/Biden Rescue Plan

1. “Oversight. We're not going to write any check to anybody unless there's oversight for the -- of the secretary of Treasury.”
2. “Focus on homeowners and folks on Main Street.”
3. “Treat the taxpayers like investors in this case.”
4. “Make sure that CEOs don't benefit from this, because this could end up, in the long run, people making money off of this rescue plan.”

Says Biden, “We're (Obama & Biden) going to fundamentally change the focus of the economic policy. We're going to focus on the middle class, because it's -- when the middle class is growing, the economy grows and everybody does well, not just focus on the wealthy and corporate America.”

• John McCain is out of touch.
• We let Wall Street run wild.
• John McCain called for more deregulation.
• The middle class needs relief.
• 95% of small business owners make less than 250,000 a year.
• Obama did not vote to raise taxes.
• Eliminate wasteful spending in the budget.
• John McCain has voted 20 times in the past decade against funding alternative energies.
• Does not support gay marriage.
• Shift responsibilities to Iraqis.
• You’ve got to have a timeline to withdrawal troops and shift responsibilities to Iraqis.
• We will end this war.
• John McCain voted against funding the troops.
• John McCain has been dead wrong on the fundamental issues’ in Iraq.
• An attack will come from the hills of Afghanistan, not Iraq.
• John continues to tell us that the central front on the war on terror is in Iraq.
• McCain wouldn’t sit down with the government of Spain.
• How are McCain’s policies going to be different than George Bush’s?
• John McCain has been no maverick on the issues that make a difference in people’s lives.
• Last 8 years we’ve been dug into a very deep whole.
• It’s time for America to get up together.