Joe Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
admitted that the 2012 election would be a "referendum" on their performance on the economy.
"Right now, understandably, totally legitimate, this is a referendum on Obama and Biden, and the nature of the state of the economy. It's soon going to be a choice."
Biden said Americans have "good reason to be upset" because they lost jobs because of the recession, "something they didn't have a thing to do with creating."
Biden said he understood Americans are unhappy about high unemployment and the sluggish economy nearly three years after Barack
B.O.Obama was elected president in the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s.
"Even though 50-some percent of the American people think the economy tanked because of the last administration, that's not relevant," said the vice president. "What's relevant is we're in charge."