August 28, 2008
Posted: 01:20 PM ET
From CNN Political Producer Alexander Marquardt DENVER (CNN) — In his first remarks since accepting the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nomination, Joe Biden told the Pennsylvania delegation Thursday morning “we cannot win without winning Pennsylvania.” “Ya brung me up,” the Pennsylvania-born Biden also told the ballroom in a hotel on the outskirts of Denver. “Scranton never leaves you, and Pennsylvania never leaves you,” said the Delaware senator, who is sometimes called Pennsylvania’s third senator. “I probably campaigned in Pennsylvania I can’t tell you how many times, literally hundreds of times, hundreds of times, because part of my heart has always been there.” He stumbled trying to say “the Obama-Biden campaign” but once he got it out, quipped, “I’m getting used to this.” Read more: Take a look at the electoral map
Biden called the ticket a natural fit, saying the campaign is about trusting the people who are “a hell of a lot smarter you think they are.” After reading a quote from his speech announcing his 1972 run for the U.S. Senate, Biden joked that Obama could have delivered it “were he alive in 1972.” “No, he was alive, he was alive,” Biden laughed. “By the way, if I hear one more time he was 11 years old when I went to the Senate, I’m going to smack somebody.” Biden, who regularly tells crowds he doesn’t use hyperbole, lived up to his reputation for occasionally adding color to his accounts. “There was somewhere between six and 10 busloads of people from Scranton who just spontaneously got on a bus and came down to Wilmington, Delaware to the train station,” said Biden of his 1972 speech. “There were hundreds of thousands of people.” Barack Obama and Biden head to Pennsylvania on Friday, where Biden says they paln to devote an “inordinate amount of resources.” “You’re going to have all the resources this campaign has available to us. That’s the good news. And the bad news is you’re going to have a whole hell of a lot of me, because I’m coming home.” Filed under: Battleground: Pennsylvania Democratic National Convention Senator Joe Biden
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