Biden Pitches For Obama In Ohio 

From npr news this is all things considered i'm robert siegel and i'm melissa block to the campaign trail now and with republicans still wrestling over presidential nominee the obama campaign this framing its arguments for the fall vice president joe biden took the new message to a union hall in toledo today he gave the first in a series of reelection campaign speeches then stop by an auto factory to shake hands at the shift change and dear scott horsley went with biden to ohio the speech had all the trappings of a general election campaign browsing springsteen music waving placards and chance for the incumbents for four years i i i i i i vice president biden told members of the real uaw local twelve there is no better example of the choice facing voters in the way the two parties approach the auto rescue in two thousand nine faced with a likely collapse of general motors and chrysler just months after taking office biden says president obama didn't flinch a new resurrecting the industry wasn't going to be popular was actually cleared every bit of following that a new he was taking a chance but he believe he wasn't going to give up a million jobs and i and the iconic industry of america invented at least he wasn't really given up without a real fight the decision to prop up the two companies with taxpayer dollars remains controversial even though gm and chrysler are profitable again selling cars and hiring workers the leading republican presidential candidate say the federal government should have left the companies alone biden defends the presence decision is the right one for american workers and all is a will was right and they were dead wrong him and the auto industries added more than two hundred thousand workers since gm and chrysler emerged from bankruptcy in auto intensive states like ohio and michigan have seen some of the countries biggest job gains ohio 's unemployment rate fell to seven seven percent in january more than half a point better than the national average marsha young say she owes her job on toledo 's jeep assembly line to the government 's willingness to step in and she's not the only one and i and i and and is now an active and i had my evening i arrived in write-downs in the rush i felt feeling in my legality of the night and i wasn't working out lovingly in her will that biden tried to spin the order rescue into a larger story about the proper role for government in the economy middle-class families were getting squeezed long before the great recession and the obama ministration strategy to address that includes greater access to health care or help paying for college and efforts to promote good paying jobs in manufacturing the average auto industry job in ohio pays about fifty four thousand dollars republican presidential hopefuls want a smaller role for government and lower taxes argues that's the wrong course if there is a one of these guys the keys of the white house they will bankrupt the middle class again the president and i have a fundamental commitment to dealing the middle class back into the american economy that they been dealt out of for so long and ultimately that's what this election is all about it's a choice of clear choice it's no accident binds giving this first big campaign speech in ohio a perennial battleground four years ago he and mister obama won the state by five points but they will working-class white voters by ten points part of biden 's job is to limit further erosion in those numbers with his blue-collar background in awe shucks manner biden sometimes a more effective union hall campaigner than the president himself introduced this morning is the son of an auto dealer biden made it clear his dad merely manage the dealership he didn't know what he said his family proudly drive the jeeps made here in toledo and earned the company jeeps are selling fast these days and chrysler employees working sixty hour weeks to keep up with demand scott horsley npr news toledo