Vice President Joe Biden and his Wife Campaign in lynchburg, virginia. Their son, delaware attorney general beau biden was scheduled to attend but did not because the Delaware National guard was called up to prepare for hurricane sandy. This is about 35 minutes. Hello. Thank you. Hello, everyone. It is great to be here in virginia. Most of all, i want to thank all of you for everything you are doing for this campaign. As i travel around the country, i see this campaign is connecting to people in a very real way. Isnt this about peoples lives . [applause] i feel the same way. Even if joe werent on this ticket, i would still be working hard for this election. I teach english and writing fulltime at a Community College right here in virginia. [applause] that is why i am so grateful that president obama and my husband are making Quality Investments to move us forward on education. Im also involved in this election as a woman who cares about the direction of our country. I have seen barack and joe said that for our rights and freedoms every single day. Stand up for our rights and freedoms every single day. The very first law put an obama signed with the lily ledbetter. The president and Vice President know how important it is for women to make our own decisions about our own bodies, our own health care. [applause] so many women of my generation have fought hard for roe versus wade, access to contraception and for equal rights. We dont want out daughters and granddaughters to have to go back and fight the same battles that we fought decades ago. [applause] we cannot forget about the importance of the Supreme Court in the direction this country could take. Finally, i care about this country. About this election as a military mom. Our son beau is a in the Delaware National army guard and he served in a rack for a year. Iraq for a year. I had the honor of meeting many of our troops and military families and i know how much they love our country. Sacrificed to protect it. I want to make sure that all of our veterans and their families get the benefits they have earned and the respect they deserve. We have come so far but we have to keep moving forward. Now it is my pleasure to turn the podium over to our Vice President , joe biden. [applause] hello it is great to be with you. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you very much. Crowd four more years thank you very muhc. Mr. Mayor, thank you for the passport to lynchburg. I appreciate it very much. As you have figured out by now, i am joe biden, jill bidens has been. Husband. And you think im kidding. I am not. I have always been known in delaware as jills has been. That may tell you what, jills husband. All around the world. Let me tell you what, i am potiphar. Our son was driving down from million 10 i am proud of her. Our son was driving down and said the government called up the national guard. I am going home. He apologizes. He wanted to be here with you. [applause] again, thanks for the hospitality. It is good to be represented in a state that will be represented by tim kane. What they add. What a guy. That has more integrity than most people have in their entire bodies. Im a big tom kaine fan. Also of tom pariello. Where are you . Thank you. Talk about a stand up back. Good to see. Thank you for all the help you have been in this campaign. Before it started, i want to make a Public Service announcement. In virginia, you have what is called absentee in person voting. If you work long hours, youre probably qualified to vote early. Next week through the third, you can go to the lot to your local registrar and vote. If you have any questions, we have folks in the back who are wearing the obama buttons and you are all wearing obama buttons. They can tell you exactly how to do it. I would like to win this thing earlier than later. So go out there. [applause] the president had his third and final debate with governor romney. And i had my one debate with congressman ryan. In that last debate, i wasor i was not sure whether other romney was there whether to endorse or debate obama. I was not sure whether romney was there to endorse or debate obama. It was kind of amazing. All those things i heard him say 04, i wasnt hurting heard him say before, i wasnt hearing him say them anymore. My grandfather from scranton used to say that beware of the converted. [laughter] he sure sounded converted, didnt he . I was wondering what happened to the mitt romney maybe casper, the family ghost of them. The friendly ghost took him. I dont know. As hard as they tried, they cannot run from the record. Here is the truth. They had made it very clear they do not have the same view on womens rights as we do. On womens health, they want to turn the power back to the insurance company. Back when they can charge wittman 50 more than men for the same policy. When they could label pregnancy preexisting conditions. When the governor was asked at the second debate about how he felt about equal pay for equal work, what did he do . He started talking about binders. Binders. Bindrs a qualified women he learned were out there. Binders of qualified women he learned were out there. We catholics call that an epiphany. He never did answer whether or not women were entitled equal pay for equal work. I will read i will. Barack obama and i are committed to equal pay, to making sure my daughter, his daughters and my granddaughters had the exact same rights as my son and grandson. [applause] the exact same rights. Just picture the Supreme Court after four years of president romney. Ladies and gentlemen, they have made it clear that they also have a different view on foreignpolicy. When we entered iraq, they said bishop of kept 30,000 troops when we ended the war in iraq, they said we should have kept 30,000 troops there. They refused to commit to an end date. And they openly opposed a signing of an arms control treaty with russia that other republicans urged that we ratified. Now the governor is running away from everything he said in the last year and a half. The congressmen is running away from everything he voted for. I am not making this up. This is real. Ladies and gentlemen, they are now abandoning the central tenet of their partys agenda. The accounting on the American People to have an overwhelming case of amnesia on november 6. All of a sudden romney claims he does not hea 5 trillion tax cut that will raise taxes for the middleclass to the president has a new term for it, he calls a what . Romnesia. it is the most accurate term i have heard in a while. And it is contagious because of a sudden, congressman ryan, the guy picked because of his new ideas about how to drastically cut spending, the guy whose budget passed cutting everything 19 acrosstheboard, his budget voucherizes medicare. Not cut those programs. All the sudden, he says now he does not cut those programs. He just slowed their growth. He slows your growth. He limited to 2,500 tax cut that you middleclass parents used to keep your kids in school. Taking thousands of the pell grants and knocking people out of college. It is like mitt romney try to convince the guy in the employment line that he did not outsourcing is job offshored his job. The result is the same. Job is gone, you have a voucher and instead of a guaranteed medical benefit. Now mitt romney is running ads across the country about getting tough on china. The same guy that Washington Post called the pioneer on outsourcing. The same guy who is criticized the president taking action against china, saving thousands of that of jobs and steel and the rubber industry. The same guy who invest in chinese companies. The same guy calling for what they now call a territorial tax which creates 800,000 jobs abroad according to experts. All of them overseas. This is the guy who was governor of massachusetts who literally youre going that think i am making this up, but literally outsourced the call service that people would call into massachusetts to see the qualify for unemployment. He said it overseas. Sent it overseas. When you see mitt romney, about getting tough on china, i have one word for it malarkey. Its a bunch of malarkey. Mitt romney has shown he is very good at sending jobs overseas. But i have news for the governor, a president s job is different. The president s job is to create jobs in america. Bring jobs home to america. Keep jobs from leaving america. That is the president job. At the president said in the second debate, he said mitt romneys plans are sketchy. I did not like to correct the president but in this case, i will. They are not sketchy, they are etchasketchy. They are changing the whole deal. But you cannot erase libya already done, but you have already voted for erase what you have already done. What you said you would support had been president. But you have already voted for. Extending tax cuts for the very wealthy. A 500 billion tax cuts while cutting essential programs. Cutting essential programs. Turning medicare from guaranteed plan into a voucher program. Which will cost seniors thousands of dollars over time. Not in 19 Million People off the program. Knocking 19 Million People off the problem. Off medicare. Promising another 250,000 for the top 1 which require raising taxes for the middle class are 2,000 a year. All of these cuts in vital programs are in the service of new massive tax cuts for the wealthy. Instead of signing a pledge to Grover Norquist to cut taxes for the wealthy, they should be signing a pledge to middle class people of america. [applause] to level the Playing Field. To give them a fair shot again. That is the pledge to president and i have signed from the start. We understand how badly the republican policies they want to reinstate heard the middle class. We understand that my dad was right when he used to say your job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It is about your dignity. Respect. Your place in the community. So that is why we will continue to focus our second term plans for jobs because we believe for americans to succeed, the middle class has to succeed. That is the only way the poor have a way up and the wealthy do very well, i might add. Giving the middle class a fighting chance is what this is all about. That is why we maintain tax cuts for College Tuition. That is why we commit to cut College Tuition in half for the next decade. 100,000 math and science teachers in the next 10 years. [applause] we talk about jobs, we talk about a decent job, a job you can raise a family on. Own a home, not red. Have a Decent School to send your child to. Own a home, not rent. Have a Decent School to send your child to. Helps send them to college. Help your parents when they get older. That is why we are creating new manufacturing jobs, ted double exports. Change the tax code, of four companies that come home, not those that go abroad. Reward companies that come home, not those that go abroad. Trained to Million People over the next three years at Community Colleges. Working with businesses to make sure students can finish school and go into jobs that are now open. On energy, we will continue to cut oil imports. In half by 2020, producing more American Made energy. Oil, clean coal, natural gas. Those will create 600,000 new jobs. Wind, biofuel, solar. We are already requiring automobiles to double their mileage by 2025. That alone will save 1. 70 trillion at the pump and 12 million gallons barrels of oil over that time. 12 Million Barrels of oil over that time. The will level the Playing Field for the middleclass. Because whenever the middle class is given a chance, they have never ever let their country down. Were going to do it by allowing 14 million americans, many of you in virginia who have never missed a mortgage payment, who are paying 7. 5 on their payments to refinance it. No government saving them 3,000 a year. Where i come from, theres 400,000 of you that would qualify. 3,000 a year is the difference between paying your automobile insurance and keeping your kid and comment in Community College. Instead of another ipod billion dollar tax cut 500 billion dollar tax cut gives it to 120,000 families. Instead of that, reposed cutting taxes for 98 of the American People instead of doing that, we propose cutting taxes for 98 of the American People. In making those permanent, those tax cuts. And we will end this war in afghanistan as we did in iraq. Saving hundreds of billions of dollars and using that money here to reduce our debt. To reduce the longterm debt and cut those taxes eliminate that tax break for the very wealthy. That will let us get halfway to the 4 trillion target in reducing the debt. Ladies and gentlemen, the rest of the money we will invest in america, creating good jobs here in america. Bill the american road, american bridge is, american and for structure, american school. S it is time to invest in america. What im about to sit will be controversial but i think it is fair to say. There is not a single idea that has been offered by governor romney are congressman ryan that is different from the policies that got us at the trouble in the first place. Really. The governor said first thing he will do is eliminate dodd frank, the reasonable regulations put back on banks and wall street. Let banks write their own rules again. But wall street go unregulated. Add trillions of dollars in new tax cuts to people making more than 1 million a year. These are decent people, folks. They are patriotic americans but the lasting a need is another tax cut. The last thing they need is another tax cut. We know how this and spirit 16 trillion in home equity and evaporated. How this ends. 9 million lost jobs. 16 trillion in home equity evaporated. Retirement accounts up in flames. The Great Recession of 2008. The American People will not go back. Folks, crowd four more years you have to ask yourself. Both of these guys are decent man. You have to ask about with a push the return of these economic and tax policies from the Bush Administration . Or as president clinton said, why would they go back to the bush policies on steroids . I have come to one conclusion. The only one i can figure out is about their attitude about america and their attitude about half the American People. You heard his insulting comments that 47 of the American People are heres the part that bothers me. When he said they are not willing to take responsibility for the allies. For their own lives. These people are our neighbors. He is talking about my parents when they were alive. The people i grew up with. The people here in lynchburg. They include seniors to afford their whole lives to pay for a social security. And did not pay taxes on that. Nor should they pay taxes on that. 60,000alking about the warriors risking their lives in afghanistan, pay no income taxes on their salaries. Nor should it. Speaking of those warriors, how many of you know someone who was been deployed to afghanistan or iraq over the last two decades . We know you. We owe their families. I checked every single day and this morning again with the defense department, how many have lost . I have been in and out of iraq and afghanistan 20 times. There refer to someone killed in action as a fallen agent. Fallen angel. There have been 6,502 fallen angels. 5054 wounded. Thousands of them require care for the rest of their lives. Understand one thing barack and i believe as i believe you do that we only have one sacred obligation as americans to equip those we sent to war and care for them and their families when they come home. The believe as i think you do, the American People are so much better stronger and takes a muchi have never seen two candis for the highest office of the land be more negative about the state of our country, about americas prospects for the future. More negative about the willingness of the American People to take responsibility for their own lives. Congressman ryan writes about the culture of dependency. I did not recognize the country they are talking about. That is not the country i live in. I am here to tell you, we are better positioned than any nation in the world to lead the 21st century. They say we are in decline. 5. 2 million new jobs instead of losing 800,000 per month 800,00 jobs per month. But the and implement rate when the Unemployment Rate dropped to the lowest since we took office, they did not say implement it was declining, this america is declining. Export is up 41 . Housing starts were at the highest level since 2008. When they heard that, they said america is in decline. More americans for the first time feeling theyre better off and will be better off than any time in the last five years. What is their answer . America is in decline. Romney and ryan are in denial. That is whats wrong. You folks in virginia get it. There is no quit in america. The American People have fought their way back and they are not going back. The entire history of this great nation as only known one direction forward. That is the only direction it has known. Folks, i got news governor romney, congressman ryan, it is never ever been a good bet to bet against the American People. Never. Virginia, we need you. We win virginia, we win this election. So got there, bring it home. God bless you all and make god protect our troops. Thank you. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] on thursday and the Romney Campaign for her husband in st. Augustine, florida. This is about 15 minutes. [applause] wow. Thank yo