It was one of my first stories for the City Paper. Biden’s attacks on McCain in Saturday’s speech wasn’t his first time at the hardball rodeo. Here’s some of his thoughts on Republicans in 2006:
The national surplus. “Well, they fixed that.”
Government spending. “There’s nothing conservative in a fiscal sense about this party and they know it.”
The response to Katrina. “It blew away any hope and prayer that this administration was competent.”
Insert easy-to-find gaffe here. “The American public has figured out this administration has dug us in a very deep hole.”
But Biden didn’t neglect criticizing his own party, noting two reasons for the party’s failure to beat President Bush twice.
“We are so timid,” he says. “It’s about being assertive. We have to say what we think.”
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