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April 27, 2012

Biden Slams Romney on Foreign Policy 
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The White House continues to gear up for President Obama's re-election
campaign with Mitt Romney's emergence as the presumptive Republican
nominee. On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech in New
York touting President Obama's foreign policy while criticizing Romney
as a throwback to the days of President George W. Bush.

Vice President Joe Biden: "If you are looking for a bumper sticker to
sum up how President Obama has handled what we inherited, it's pretty
simple: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Governor
Romney's national security policies in our view would return us to a
past we have worked so hard to move beyond, and in this regard, there is
no difference in what Governor Romney says and what he has proposed for
our economy than he has done in foreign policy. In every instance in our
view, he takes us back to the failed policies that got us into the mess
that President Obama has dug us out of and the mess that we, got us into
this in the first place."

In a widely mocked gaffe, Biden tried to portray Obama as aggressive on
Iran by saying: "Now is the time to heed the timeless advice from Teddy
Roosevelt: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' End of quote. I promise
you, the President has a big stick."

 

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