Vice President Joe Biden?s reason for hope in an American economic recovery: authoritarian regimes like China that repress innovation.
?Their students are either not allowed or not trained to challenge orthodoxy,? Biden said, pressing the administration?s economic record in an appearance at Iowa State University Thursday.
Continue ReadingQuoting the old ?Think Different? slogan of Apple ? and Apple founder Steve Jobs ? Biden said that summed up his vision of American innovation.
?It?s impossible to think different in a country where you can?t speak freely. It?s impossible to think different when you have to worry what you put on the Internet will either be confiscated or you will be arrested,? Biden said. ?It?s impossible to think different where orthodoxy reigns. That?s why, that?s why we remain the most innovative country in the world.?
Appearing with Agriculture Secretary and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack in Ames, Biden picked up the president?s message of growth in the manufacturing sector and said companies are realizing that bringing jobs home from overseas is good business, in part because of the country?s commitment to innovation.
?It?s an invaluable, invaluable commodity, and businesses know it,? Biden said.
He took some time to hit Republicans for obstructing some of the president?s proposals to spur more innovation through investments in education, part of the administration?s jobs agenda, and to spur further manufacturing growth through tax credits for companies who bring jobs back from overseas, part of Obama?s tax reform framework.
?These are the same folks that told the president and me that going out and rescuing the automobile industry would be a disaster,? Biden said.
The Obama-Biden ticket carried Iowa in 2008, but the state is not looking as good for Obama these days, with a recent Des Moines Register poll showing him trailing three of four GOP candidates. The only matchup he won was against Newt Gingrich, 51 percent to 37 percent. Against Ron Paul, Obama trailed 42 percent to 49 percent; Rick Santorum led him 48 to 44; and Mitt Romney beat him 46 to to 44 percent.
Democratic strategists told The Register that millions of dollars in GOP ads ahead of the state?s caucuses at the beginning of January and months of attacks on the trail have driven down Obama?s standing in Iowa.
The state Republican Party seized on the president?s flagging numbers ahead of Biden?s visit Thursday.
?An overwhelming majority of Iowans agree that this administration?s policies have not made them better off,? Iowa GOP Chairman A.J. Spiker said in a statement. ?The administration is clearly concerned about winning Iowa in the fall, but no number of campaign stops can distract voters from its disastrous record.?
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