Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden got Columbia Democrats on his feet this morning, taking jabs at “his friend” Sen. John McCain and telling the standing-room-only crowd of several hundred that providing health care for every American is a “moral obligation.”

Standing behind the now familiar blue “change” banner, Biden, Sen. Barack Obama’s running mate, suggested that it was ironic that McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are also talking about change.

“John must have been the last man in American politics to know this election is about change,” Biden said.

Repeating a theme that has been common since the end of the Republican convention, Biden suggested the GOP ticket wasn’t talking about important issues.

“The silence of those two speeches (at the convention) was deafening when it came to the things that matter to Americans.”

Biden got perhaps his biggest roar when talking about jobs that have been outsourced to China. He spoke specifically at length about a tax loophole that he said gives American companies an incentive to ship jobs overseas. And he pointed at the crowd, which roared and cheered when he said he and Obama want jobs to be “Made in America, sold in America, by Americans, for Americans.”

UPDATE: Chris Taylor of the Republican National Committee responded to Biden’s remarks today by suggesting that the Obama/Biden plan would raise taxes on small businesses. During his speech, Biden contended that the Democrats will seek to cut taxes to 95 percent of Americans who have a job.

Says Taylor:

“Obama and Biden’s plan for the economy involves raising taxes on small businesses and increasing taxes on the working families of Missouri, which is not the right prescription for our ailing economy. John McCain understands that negative criticisms and tax hikes will not turn this economy around. That is why John McCain continues to push for tax cuts, push for increased investments into our economy and push for real change here in America.”