Obama Series

Vice Presidential Debate

03 October 08

Biden:

We're going to focus on the middle class, because it's -- when the middle class is growing, the economy grows and everybody does well, not just focus on the wealthy and corporate America.

We cannot slow up on education, because that's the engine that is going to give us the economic growth and competitiveness that we need.

Palin:

Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution. In fact, too often you're the problem so, government, lessen the tax burden and on our families and get out of the way and let the private sector and our families grow and thrive and prosper. An increased tax formula that Barack Obama is proposing in addition to nearly a trillion dollars in new spending that he's proposing is the backwards way of trying to grow our economy.

We can start putting more troops in Afghanistan as we also work with our NATO allies who are there strengthening us and we need to grow our military.