http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/littlejoe/ en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:05:11 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2365550/posts Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 2009 AT 1:21 PM Retrofitting and the Middle Class Posted by Terrell McSweeny With the leaves changing color, the air crisper, and the days shorter – fall is fully upon us (well, depending on where you live) - and many Americans are putting the heat back on in their homes. In that spirit, the Vice President is holding a Middle Class Task Force event at the White House on Monday morning to unveil our "Recovery through Retrofit" report. The report offers a plan that... WHITEHOUSE.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2365550/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:05:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343256/posts Why has the Obama administration decided to toss eastern Europe under the bus in order to make nice with Russia? According to CNN, Joe Biden says that a missile-defense system in Europe isn’t really necessary, because Iran isn’t much of a threat. No, really: Vice President Joe Biden earlier refused to confirm to CNN that the George W. Bush-era plan was being shelved. But he did explain the logic of doing so, saying Iran — a key concern for the United States — was not a threat. --------------------------------------------------------- “I think we are fully capable and secure dealing with any present... Hotair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343256/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:59:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294542/posts (CNSNews.com) – Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money. “And folks look, AARP knows and the people with me here today know, the president knows, and I know, that the status quo is simply not acceptable,” Biden said at the event on Thursday in Alexandria, Va. “It’s totally unacceptable. And it’s completely unsustainable. Even if we wanted to keep it the way we have... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294542/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:55:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283606/posts Wattsburg, Pa. — Vice President Joe Biden visited a small town on the outskirts of Erie today to talk to rural folks about federal stimulus money that can be used to expand broadband access to the Internet for rural areas that typically have poor connections. Apparently stimulus money and broadband are not all that interesting to the local folk here: Only around 100 or so people have showed up so far to hear Biden talk at noon at Seneca High School off Route 8 in Wattsburg. The room looked so sparse that about 30 or so chairs were removed by... Trib Live http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283606/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:52:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252556/posts <p>I only ask because of a couple of Joe Biden items today.</p> <p>In the first, the LA Times's Top of the Ticket notes that the Vice President has nothing at all on his schedule this weekend.</p> <p>In the second, Stephen Hayes of the Weely Standard picks up on an anecdote from Eleanor Clift on Newsweek about remarks Biden made at the Gridiron dinner in which he appeared to blow the gaffe on his predecessor Dick Cheney's undisclosed location.</p> Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252556/posts#comment Sun, 17 May 2009 07:39:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2250622/posts Note: Read the whole article and check out the hypertext-links in the article. # FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Where does the Obama administration stand on Israel? Although that vexed question is still open, the worrying signs are accumulating. On Sunday it was National Security Adviser James Jones telling ABC that “We understand Israel’s preoccupation with Iran as an existential threat. We agree with that”—and adding: “…by the same token, there are a lot of things that you can do to diminish that existential threat by working hard towards achieving a two-state solution.” With Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu slated... FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2250622/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 08:22:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249664/posts WEST HOLLYWOOD, California – Mark Landon, an actor and eldest son of "Little House on the Prairie" star Michael Landon, was found dead Monday at his home. He was 60. The cause of death was not immediately clear but there was no evidence of foul play, said Sgt. David Infante of the Los Angeles County sheriff's office. Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249664/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 00:02:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224668/posts Reporting from Washington -- Vice President Joe Biden issued a high-level admonishment to Israel's new government Tuesday that it would be "ill advised" to launch a military strike against Iran. Biden said in a CNN interview that he does not believe newly installed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would take such a step. Even so, his comment underscored a gap between the conservative new Israeli government and the Obama White House on a series of questions, including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and Iran. While the Obama administration has made a series of recent overtures to Tehran, the Israelis have grown... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224668/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:53:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224472/posts Have things gotten so bad in this administration that Joe Biden has to unwind gaffes? Janet Napolitano and Hillary Clinton announced that the US no longer would use “war on terror” to describe the fight against al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and other affiliated terrorist groups. Napolitano went so far as to eschew “terrorism” altogether in favor of “man-caused disasters”. CNN tried getting VP Biden to explain this, and while not accusing CNN of making it up, clearly he couldn’t believe anyone would be this stupid: Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224472/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 00:21:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204746/posts BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Beverly in East Texas, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: East Texas blessings to you, Mr. Limbaugh. RUSH: Thank you very much. CALLER: From a military mother of two, I'm wondering, sir, if I might shift your focus from the war on economy to the war that we are also fighting on another front. Might I do that, sir? RUSH: You mean the war that Joe Biden says we're losing? CALLER: Yes, sir. RUSH: That would be the war in Afghanistan? CALLER: On Saturday our president said we aren't winning which I would... Golden EIB Mic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204746/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:51:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200485/posts Vice President Joe Biden gave a warm and well-received speech to the AFL-CIO Executive Council at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida today. “And old joke…you go home with them that brung you to the dance,” the vice president said, according to remarks put out by the White House. “Well, you all brought me to the dance a long time ago. And it's time we start dancing, man. It's time we start dancing.” Biden noted that the National Labor Relations Act “explicitly says this nation's policy is to encourage -- encourage -- collective bargaining, encourage unions.” He said he... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200485/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:15:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199578/posts Last Friday, Vice President Joe Biden and seven White House cabinet members traveled to Philadelphia to kick off the inaugural gathering of President Obama's Middle Class Task Force. The task force will convene monthly in cities across the country to confront the problems faced by average Americans. It's an admirable goal; with rising costs, stagnant wages and job cuts, a Pew Research study found that 78% of self-described middle class Americans have trouble maintaining their current standard of living. Still, the middle class may have a better shot at making ends meet than at influencing the Middle Class Task Force.... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199578/posts#comment Thu, 5 Mar 2009 04:34:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190675/posts Joseph Biden is a prophet. On Oct. 19, 2008, the now-vice president said: "Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy." Forget about six months, the foreign affairs insults arrived within three weeks of Obama's presidency. And with the economy dominating the news cycle, very little attention has been paid. Let's take them one by one: By far the most important insult to the Obama administration came this week. Shortly after U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke visited Pakistan, the country surrendered to the Taliban and al-Qaida, putting the... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190675/posts#comment Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:43:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189786/posts The Biden Prophecy Charles Krauthammer February 20, 2009 WASHINGTON -- The Biden prophecy has come to pass. Our wacky veep, momentarily inspired, had predicted last October that "it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama." Biden probably had in mind an eve-of-the-apocalypse drama like the Cuban Missile Crisis. Instead, Obama's challenges have come in smaller bites. Some are deliberate threats to U.S. interests, others mere probes to ascertain whether the new president has any spine. Preliminary X-rays are not very encouraging. Consider the long list of brazen Russian provocations: (a) Pressuring Kyrgyzstan to shut down the... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189786/posts#comment Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:38:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185037/posts Associated Press/ Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185037/posts#comment Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:10:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2182184/posts In further confirmation that the Obama Administration has dropped the phrase "war on terror", Vice President Joe Biden completely left it out of his major foreign policy address at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. In a rather dull and weak-kneed speech, Biden spoke in soft terms of "a shared struggle against extremism", and of "a small number of violent extremists (who) are beyond the call of reason," as well as the need to seek with the Muslim world "a new way forward based on mutual interest and mutual respect." There was no indication given of the sheer scale of... Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2182184/posts#comment Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:40:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181381/posts What a start for Obama By Ralph R. ReilandMonday, February 9, 2009 "Well, That Certainly Didn't Take Long" was the headline on Maureen Dowd's column in The New York Times last Wednesday.Dowd, unswervingly a Bush-basher and pro-Obama over the past two years, was referring to Obama's success in knocking himself off his elevated pedestal within two weeks of his inauguration.Obama and his "arrogant attitude" went "SPLAT" (caps in Dowd's original) after a "cascade of appointments who 'forgot' to pay taxes" and the development of a "helter-skelter stimulus package." Rasmussen Reports survey on Feb. 2 found that only 37 percent of... pittsburghlive.com TribLIVE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181381/posts#comment Mon, 9 Feb 2009 06:57:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180829/posts MUNICH, Germany – Vice President Joe Biden promised a sharp break from the go-it-alone policies of the Bush era in a major speech on Saturday, saying it was time to "reset" Washington's ties with Russia and talk to Iran. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, an annual gathering of leaders and defense experts, Biden said the new U.S. administration of President Barack Obama was determined to "set a new tone" in Washington and with its allies. In the wide-ranging 25-minute address, Biden focused on relations with Moscow, badly strained by Russia's brief war last year with Georgia and... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180829/posts#comment Sun, 8 Feb 2009 05:52:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2173277/posts In his first trip as Vice President, Joe “Stand up Chuck!” Biden is off to embarrass himself in front of the Germans…a challenge, but we know Joe is up to it. After issuing his first Vice Presidential apology for insulting the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing a lot of apologies from this guy), Biden will board the Vice-Presidential short bus to attend a conference of like-minded Euro-trash. I’m sure he will be well received, especially among the “few” Germans who keep shrines to the era of National Socialism in their... CRLF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2173277/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:16:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169965/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52778 Administration Calls on Other Branches to Help Combat Threats By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2009 – Top administration officials are calling on other branches of government to do their part in the fight against terrorism and extremism. “For too long we put the bulk of the burden, in my view, on our military,” Vice President Joe Biden said during a State Department event today. “That's a view not only shared by me, but by your secretary of defense, as well.” Biden said the military is “absolutely necessary,... AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE via DEFENSElink.mil http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169965/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:01:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159452/posts Vice-president-elect Joe Biden likened the country’s economic crisis to the attacks of 9/11 Monday in a private meeting on Capitol Hill. “We’re at war,” Biden told congressional leaders of both parties during their sit-down with Barack Obama in the Capitol, according to two sources familiar with the exchange. It’s not the first time the vice-president-elect has used stark language to underscore the perilous state of the economy. In an interview last month on ABC’s “This Week,” Biden said that a stimulus package was needed to keep the economy from “absolutely tanking.” Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said Biden “was speaking of... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159452/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:46:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158844/posts US Vice President-elect Joseph Biden will travel to Pakistan this week to defuse regional tensions in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, according to a media report. A high-level Congressional delegation will accompany Biden during the two-day visit, diplomatic sources were quoted as saying by a TV channel. The sources said the delegation is likely to arrive in Pakistan on January 9. The delegation is expected to meet President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to discuss Pakistan-India relations, the war on terror and a 15-billion dollar aid package for Islamabad. Hindustan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158844/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:39:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142009/posts ARTICLE SNIPPET: "During Barack Obama’s presidential run, Eric Holder, Bill Clinton’s Deputy Attorney General from 1997 to 2001, campaigned heavily for the then-Illinois senator. This past summer, Obama tapped Holder to serve on the vice presidential selection team that ultimately chose Joe Biden to be Obama’s running mate. Now Holder may receive his own position in the Obama administration, which he has been nominated to serve as Attorney General." ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Nearly ten years after the FALN pardons, Holder is once again set to enter the Attorney General’s office – this time as its head. But before assuming that important... FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142009/posts#comment Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133175/posts Joe Biden: The Already Invisible Man November 15, 5:45 PM by Tony Campbell, Politics Examiner In another stroke of the change we can expect, it seems that the role of Vice-President in the Obama administration may only consist of being a sounding board for the President, unlike the dominant policy role that Dick Cheney possessed over the last eight years. During the campaign, we heard that Joe Biden was on the ticket to provide experience in leadership regarding foreign policy. Now, it seems that President-elect Obama may choose Senator Hillary Clinton for the top post at the Department of State.... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133175/posts#comment Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:19:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123470/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqR0Ui0g3wI&eurl= The Leader of the Don't Drill Democrats in the Senate declaims against two giant and productive industries that employ hundreds of thousands of Americans. His full statement: "The one thing we fail to talk about is those costs that you don't see on the bottom line. That is coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick; it's global warming. It's ruining our country, it’s ruining our world. We’ve got to stop using fossil fuel.” Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123470/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 14:45:10 GMT