Joe Biden In Toledo Today

Joe Biden took to the stage in Toledo about an hour ago, the first stop in a series of campaign events he’ll be doing over the coming days. While I didn’t have time to watch it, here are excerpts from the speech I received this morning.

Ours is a philosophy that values the role of workers in the success of a business, and values the middle class in the success of the economy.

Stated simply, we’re about promoting the private sector.  They’re about protecting the privileged sector.

We’re a fair shot, and a fair shake.  They’re about no rules, no risk.   And no  accountability.   

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The President didn’t flinch.

This man has a spine of steel.

He knew rescuing the industry wasn’t popular.  He knew he was taking a chance.   But he believed.

He said, we are not going to give up on a million jobs, and the iconic industry America invented.  Not without a fight.

We all want a president with the courage of his convictions. 

Well folks, we have one. 

He made the tough call.

And the verdict is in: President Obama was right and his critics were dead wrong.

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The President and I have a fundamental commitment to dealing the middle class back in to the American economy.

And ultimately that’s what this election is all about.  It’s about a choice.

A choice between a system that’s rigged, and one that’s fair. 

A system that holds someone who misleads investors as accountable as someone who misses a payment on a mortgage. 

A system that trusts the workers on the line, instead of just listening to the folks in the suites.

That’s a stark choice. To my mind it isn’t a choice at all.