Biden: I don’t recognize Mitt Romney’s America
Joe Biden continued his criticism of Mitt Romney on Saturday, telling a 2,000-strong crowd in Florida that does not recognise Romney’s vision of America as a country dependent on government handouts.
The vice-president was campaigning in south-west Florida, a traditionally Republican part of the state, and said that Romney’s infamous “47%” remarks – where a leaked video showed Romney insist that 47% of Americans paid no federal income tax and thought of themselves as victims – showed a “profound misunderstanding” of the American people.
“When I hear this talk of a culture of dependency, not just from Romney and [Paul] Ryan, but from this new Republican party … I don’t recognize the country they’re talking about,” Biden said.
“The American people are so much better, so much stronger, take so much more responsibility than these guys give them credit for.”
Biden’s remarks come as Romney and Barack Obama prepare to square off in the first of three presidential debates in Denver on Wednesday night. Obama will be aiming to convince sceptical Americans that he can accomplish in a second term what he could not in his first, while Romney, anxious to keep the election race from slipping away, needs to that he is a credible and trusted alternative to the president.
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