Biden: 'Abuse of power' is 'most serious' abuse Nick Cargo and David Edwards

Published: Sunday October 12, 2008





Print This Email This A vote for Obama/Biden is a vote for your interests, Senators Clinton and Biden told the audience at a Scranton, Pennsylvania rally alongside former President Bill Clinton. Also, Biden called the upcoming election literally the most important in one's lifetime.



"I'm deputizing every one of you to make the that has to be made" to undecided family and friends, Sen. Clinton told the audience, "because Barack and Joe are not asking you to marry them... they're asking you to vote for them and vote for yourselves."



"This election is too important to sit on the sidelines of history," she added.



"There is the one most serious abuse a man or a woman, or a government, can engage in...is to abuse power," Biden noted in a segue to the economy. While no particular person was named, Biden's opponent, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, was found in a report released on Friday related to the "Troopergate" investigation to have abused her power in violation of Alaska's state ethics law. Gov. Palin, her husband Todd and their aides were accused of a campaign of pressure on state officials aiming to get their ex-brother-in-law, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, fired during his divorce battle with the Governor's sister. Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was believed to have been let go because he refused to dismiss Wooten.



"Right now, all across Pennsylvania, folks are trying to figure out what all this tough economic news means for them and for their families.



"But [for too many] Americans, the economy didn't start collapsing a week ago, it didn't start collapsing a month ago, it didn't start collapsing a year ago... it started collapsing eight years ago. For too long, families have been asking questions as simple as they are profound...'Will I have a job next month?' 'Can I afford to go to the doctor's?' 'Can I fill the gas tank?' 'Is my house worth what I paid for it?' 'Will I be able to send Mary back to college next semester?' 'Will I be able to retire now that my 401(k) and the value of my home has (sic) evaporated?'



"Ladies and gentlemen, they're asking simple questions; simple and profound questions; that this administration and John McCain and Sarah Palin have been unwilling, unable, and apparently, it seems like [they] sometimes don't know how to even begin to answer."



This video is from CNN's Newsroom, broadcast October 12, 2008.









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