VP Debate - Policy Agenda: How would your policies differ...

SEN. BIDEN: God forbid that it would ever happen. It would be a

national tragedy of historic proportions, if it were to happen. But

if it did, I would carry out Barack Obama's policies: his policies of

reinstating the middle class, making sure that they get a fair break;

making sure that they have access to affordable health insurance;

making sure they get serious tax breaks; making sure that we can help

their children to get to college; making sure we have an energy policy

that leads us in the direction of -- not only toward independence and

a cleaner environment, but an energy policy that creates 5 million new

jobs; a foreign policy that ends this war in Iraq; a foreign policy

that goes after the one mission the American public gave the president

after 9/11, to get and capture or kill bin Laden and to eliminate al

Qaeda; a policy that would, in fact, engage our allies in making sure

that we knew we were acting on the same page and not dictating, and a

policy that would reject the Bush doctrine of preemption and regime

change and replace it with a doctrine of prevention and cooperation.

And ladies and gentlemen, this is the biggest-ticket item that we

have in this election. This is the most important election you will

ever, ever have voted in, any of you, since 1932, and where such stark

differences -- I would follow through on Barack's policies because in

essence I agree with every major initiative he is suggesting.

MS. IFILL: Governor.

GOV. PALIN: And heaven forbid, yes, that that would ever happen,

no matter how this ends up, that that would ever happen with eith