The White House continues to gear up for President Obama’s re-election campaign with Mitt Romney’s emergence as the presumptive Republican nominee. On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech in New York touting President Obama’s foreign policy while criticizing Romney as a throwback to the days of President George W. Bush.

Vice President Joe Biden: “If you’re looking for a bumper sticker to sum up how President Obama has handled what we inherited, it’s pretty simple: Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive. Governor Romney’s national security policies, in our view, would return us to a past we’ve worked so hard to move beyond. And in this regard, there is no difference in what Governor Romney says and what he’s proposed for our economy than he’s done in foreign policy. In every instance, in our view, he takes us back to the failed policies that got us into the mess that President Obama has dug us out of and the mess that we — got us into this in the first place.”

In a widely mocked gaffe, Biden tried to portray Obama as aggressive on Iran by saying, “Now is the time to heed the timeless advice from Teddy Roosevelt: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' End of quote. I promise you, the President has a big stick.”