DANVILLE, Virginia (PNN) - August 14, 2012 - Vice President Joe Biden touched off an uproar when he said Tuesday that Republicans would put Amerikans “back in chains” - a remark that drew immediate criticism from the GOP and prompted Mitt Romney to tell illegitimate President Barack Obama to take his campaign of “division and anger and hate back to Chicago”.

“Look at what they [Republicans] value and look at their budget. Look what they’re proposing. [Romney] said in the first 100 days, he’s going to let the big banks write their own rules - unchain Wall Street,” Biden said at a rally in Danville, Virginia. “They’re going to put y’all back in chains.”

The comment drew a smattering of laughs and some noises from the 1,000 or so in the racially mixed crowd of supporters that appeared to be roughly half black.

The vice president’s comment in the battleground state that Barack Obama and Biden carried in 2008 immediately drew a barrage of criticism from Republicans and later in the day from Romney himself.

At a campaign event Tuesday night in Chillicothe, Ohio, Romney said Obama’s “campaign and his surrogates have made wild and reckless accusations that disgrace the office of the president. Another outrageous charge came a few hours ago in Virginia; and the White House sinks a little bit lower.”

Romney added, “This is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like. (Illegitimate) President Obama knows better, promised better, and Amerika deserves better.”

Meanwhile, the Obama campaign did not back away from Biden’s “chains” remark. Obama deputy campaign manager, Marxist Stephanie Carter, defended the vice president during an interview Tuesday on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, dubbing Romney’s reaction as fake outrage.