Vice President Biden raised eyebrows today when he referred to the Republican party as wanting to put voters in chains.
Specifically, the vice president said to the Danville, Virginia, crowd that the House GOP budget, partly written by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., gives an indication of the Republican presidential ticket's values.
"We got a real clear picture of what they all value," Biden said. "Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, 'unchain Wall Street.' They're going to put y'all back in chains."
An Obama campaign official tells ABC News that "as the full quote makes obvious, the Vice President was clearly using a metaphor to describe the devastating impact of deregulating Wall Street and the financial industry, as well as how Governor Romney's policies would take us back to the same failed formula that led to the 2008 financial crisis - the same failed formula that benefitted a few, but crashed our economy and hurt the middle class."
Defenders of the vice president suggest that he inartfully was attempting to play off language Republicans have used about President Obama needing to "unshackle" small businesses and the economy.
Mr. Biden also told the crowd that if they get out the vote, "we can win North Carolina again." Danville is close to the North Carolina border, but it is in fact in Virginia.
-Jake Tapper
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