Vice-president Joe Biden will mark his re-nomination as the Democratic party's vice-presidential candidate with a visceral attack on Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney.
Taking up the traditional attack-dog role of the ticket's number two, Biden was to tell the party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina that "the two men seeking to lead this country over the next four years have fundamentally different visions, and a completely different value set."
"Governor Romney believes that in the global economy, it doesn't much matter where American companies put their money or where they create jobs."
"I found it fascinating last week – when Governor Romney said, that as president, he'd take a jobs tour, well with all his support for outsourcing – it's going to have to be a foreign trip."
With the November 6 election still on a knife-edge, Biden was to give his trademark gritty defence of Obama's first term and try to frame the choice that Americans face when they enter the voting booth.
"Look, President Obama knows that creating jobs in America – keeping jobs in America – and bringing jobs back to America -- is what being President is all about," he will say.
"My fellow Americans, we now find ourselves at the hinge of history."
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