Come Together, Right Now, Over Me
WINSTON-SALEM, NC - If the Democrats carry the Tar Heel State this fall, it will be proof of Barack Obama's ability to bring the nation together, Joe Biden argued this afternoon.
"It will send a very important message to the nation that we are no longer just divided blue and red, we are no longer north and south," Biden said on the campus of Wake Forest University. "We [will] once again have a president who's been able to reach out in a general election and unite the country going into his administration."
Bringing the nation together is critical, the Delaware senator said, to move beyond the "product of this politics of division and diversion," as evidenced by the McCain campaign's robo-calls.
"It's done again to appeal to the strategy of Karl Rove and company that has worked so well over the last eight years for apolitical party, but worked so badly for America," he said.
Whoever becomes president will be faced with "a heavy load economically and internationally."
"The decisions are going to be too tough," he said. "But ladies and gentlemen, what have great presidents always done, great presidents have always, always turned difficult circumstances into genuine opportunities for change. ... And they've done it by appealing to our better angels."
Biden today has updated his economic appeals to include criticism of McCain's defense of "President Bush's position on outsourcing jobs."
"We refuse to accept John's assertion that this is, as he recently said, simple, fundamental economics," Biden said. "It is not simple fundamental economics. It is Bush-McCain economics that has got us into this very deep hole."
(NBC/NJ's MIKE MEMOLI)
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