Biden in Michigan: "If you're ready for four more years of George Bush, McCain is your guy"

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Palin vows to shake things up; Biden blasts GOP call for change

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/15/campaign.wrap/index.html

(CNN) -- In her first solo appearance on the campaign trail, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told voters Monday they need to send her and John McCain to the White House so they can "shake things up."

"In the next 50 days, Colorado, it's going to be a hard-fought contest here," Palin said in Golden, Colorado, one of the state's swing districts. "We're taking our case for reform to voters of every background, in every party or no party at all. And with your vote, we're going to Washington to shake things up."

She told voters that should she become vice president, she would focus on energy security, government reform and helping families that have children with special needs.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was also in Colorado on Monday, holding an event in Grand Junction.

Colorado is a key swing state, with nine electoral votes at stake.

As Palin addressed voters in Colorado, her Democratic counterpart, Sen. Joe Biden, was in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, arguing against McCain's claim for change.

Biden, one of McCain's decades-long Senate colleagues, accused the Arizona senator of being a "sequel" to President Bush's two terms.

"We've seen this movie before," Biden said. "And we know, the sequel is always worse than the original."

"If you're ready for four more years of George Bush, then John McCain is your guy," he said, adding that "McCain could easily become known as 'Bush 44,' " a reference to Bush being the 43rd U.S. president.