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India's friend Biden gets Vice Prez nomination
Published on Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:31, Updated on Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:33 in World section
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Denver: Sen. Joe Biden went on the attack Wednesday night moments after he accepted the nomination for Democratic vice presidential candidate.
"The American dream is slowly slipping away," Biden told delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
But Biden said he and presidential nominee Barack Obama would turn the tide and pledged to serve "every American who was trying to do the right thing."
In an emotional address that left Michelle Obama wiping tears from her eyes, Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, introduced his father and spoke of personal hardships he endured while serving in the Senate.
The younger Biden survived a car accident that killed his mother and sister.
Earlier in the evening, former President Clinton said that Barack Obama was "ready to be president" and urged his wife's supporters to vote for the newly anointed Democratic presidential nominee.
"Barack Obama is ready to lead America and to restore American leadership in the world," Clinton told delegates at the Democratic National Convention.
Like Republicans, the Clintons had criticised Obama's lack of foreign policy experience when Sen. Hillary Clinton ran against Obama in the primary campaign.
But on Wednesday, the former president said Obama was "right for this job."
Clinton attacked the Bush administration for what many speakers have said are failed policies at home and abroad.
Clinton also criticised Sen. John McCain, the Republican candidate, as someone who would continue the failed policies of the Bush administration with more tax cuts that will "swell the deficit, increase inequality, and weaken the economy."
"Clearly, the job of the next president is to rebuild the American dream and to restore American leadership in the world," Clinton said. "Everything I learned in my eight years as president, and in the work I have done since in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job."
Clinton was one of the most anticipated speakers of the evening, themed "Securing America's Future." He was greeted by a rousing ovation when he appeared on stage to the tune of "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow," his 1992 campaign theme song.
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