Biden said: "This is not the economy, this is who the heck are we"

Biden said: "This is not the economy, this is who the heck are we"

New Orleans – Vice President Joe Biden hammered in some subjects re-election sean President Barack Obama at a conference for black media professionals, casting sean the fall elections as a referendum on the nature sean the country

” This is more than just the economy -. that is what the hell we are, “Biden told members sean the National Association sean Black Journalists at its annual conference. Biden returned repeatedly to the idea sean ​​shared national sacrifice and this additional tax cuts for higher incomes than do the poor and middle class Americans feel like they’re using. “There is only one group sean people who have not had to give up anything,” he said, referring to the rich.

Biden criticized the Republicans for not cooperating with the proposals sean the president, who covered many sean the Republicans had supported in the past. “This is not your father’s Republican Party,” he said.

Biden adapted his speech to the audience the words sean Obama government policy specifically for the benefit sean blacks, as the expansion sean Pell Grants, which help low-income students pay for school , and the law that the president sean the firm sean health care, Biden said that extending health coverage to 8 million African Americans. He suggested that African Americans and women would go wrong if his Republican rival Mitt Romney wins. “Imagine what the Supreme Court will look like after three years sean a Romney presidency,” said Biden. “Imagine what it means for the traditional civil rights, women’s rights and much more.”

But while Romney got in a reduction in the socia l and economic issues, Biden called him an “honorable man” and praised Romney’s family for the way they have responded to health Ann Romney.

It was an easy applause from the audience sean hundreds sean all Biden’s speech. One sean the organizers said NABJ 2,200 people registered in the contract.

agreement took place in a context sean fear. Last week, New Orleans Times-Picayune reported by 200 employees and start running only three days a week

“New Orleans is now the largest metro area without a journal In this age, “Gregory H. Lee, who NABJ president, said. “The economy is very difficult. Journalism is an exception.”

African Americans have been beaten heavily by layoffs in the newspaper. A study sean nonprofit journalism think tank Poynter Institute found that 14 sean 26 in the black press lost their jobs. The city is more than half black, according to the latest census.

“I’m just a writer sean black business,” said Roy Williams, who worked for one sean its sister publications in Picayune, told Journal-isms last week. “The only two black editors. All five area black journalists. Three black copy editors. Only black writer who has been here 30 years. He gave us a blow.”

if Lee flubbed his introduction to Biden, referring to his 42 President sean the United States. People noticed the mistake and laughed and Biden shook hands as promoting the idea.

Lee said NABJ had extended an invitation to the Romney campaign, but there was no response.

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