Biden: U.S. ready for 'collaboration'

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Biden: U.S. ready for 'collaboration'
Posted March 28, 2009 5:00 PM

by Mark Silva

The world doesn't have the United States to kick around anymore - or at least, to us, that's what it would appear that Vice President Joe Biden was saying in Chile today.-- with Biden suggesting that the U.S. is now willng to collaborate with the rest of the world, but will also insist that everyone follow "the rules of the road.''

Biden, addressing the opening of The Progressive Governance Conference in Vina del Mar, Chile, today, spoke of the Obama administration's wide-ranging agenda.

"We are aggressively attacking a full set of challenges that are facing our economy,'' Biden told his international audience. "We expect the recession to end later this year. But .. employment will lag far behind. We're still going to have a very, very difficult circumstance in our country -- and most of our countries -- even when the GDP begins to grow again, as it hasn't in our country. We're technically in -- not technically, in fact, in recession. So unemployment is likely to continue rising.

"At the same time, the most important thing we can do during this whole process -- and it's going to begin at the G-20 (summit of major economic powers next week) -- is to reset the rules of the road, to have common sense oversight that keeps us from getting back into the same spot we're in 10 years from now,'' Biden said.

"President Obama and I sought these offices because we had a fundamental disagreement with the policies of the last administration,'' Biden said. "We don't question the motive of the last administration -- we question seriously their policies. And it's a little bit like that old metaphor -- it takes a while to turn around a super-tanker. We are moving as rapidly as we can to change the direction of our country and our policies, but we're going to have to ask -- and we don't expect to get it, but we have to ask for a little bit of patience as we move forward....

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[BlooInBloo]

1. Argh. I like Biden generally, but Mr. Bankruptcy Bill is not the person i would go to...

for "commonsense oversight" - at least not such as would help Main Street.

Of course, it isn't like the congresscritters are any better.

Sigh.

More and better Democrats. We've got the former, we REALLY need the latter.