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WASHINGTON: Vice President-elect Joe Biden will not wait to be inaugurated before embarking on the new administration's first overseas fact-finding trip. Biden will fly to undisclosed destinations in Southwest Asia this week. Although Biden will travel in his capacity as a senator, a job he will vacate within days of returning, the trip effectively represents the incoming administration's first foray into foreign policy since the Nov. 4 election. While outspoken on economic matters, President-elect Barack Obama and Biden have avoided discussing most international issues publicly during the last two months, deferring to President George W. Bush.

National security team nominees are prepared to meet today's challenges and tomorrow's emerging threats, U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden said Monday. "I hope and believe that the American people will come to feel as I do that we brought together one of the most talented national security teams ever assembled," Biden said at a news conference in Chicago, during which President-elect Barack Obama introduced his national security team. "A team prepared to meet the serious challenges we face today and the emerging threats that will confront us tomorrow."Obama designated Sen. Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state and said he...

There are a thousand and one good reasons I call Joe Biden “the increasingly erratic, super-gaffetastic Joe Biden” (link). Here’s the 1,002nd reason, via FoxNews.com: “Hey folks, 37 more hours!” Joe Biden greeted a crowd primed for the home stretch of this long campaign with as much energy as he’s had in the last two months on the trail as well as some typical Bidenese. Telling voters in this swing state that “change is on the way,” the Democratic vice presidential candidate offered one of his now-expected random introductory tangents. The latest was about his sister, Val, his wife Jill,...

Steve Helber/Associated Press Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. speaks during a rally at the Woodbridge Community Center in Woodbridge, Va., yesterday. Republicans yesterday criticized Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. over an overheard comment at odds with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's campaign pledge to support the development of clean coal plants in the United States. In the remarks, circulated on YouTube, the Delaware senator seems to reject the idea of building new coal-fired plants domestically, while suggesting that clean-coal technology, a goal that both campaigns have promised billions of dollars to develop, should be used to...

Some great rope line video from Joe Biden's recent Ohio swing, where he was asked by an anti-pollution campaigner about clean coal -- a controversial approach in Democratic circles for which Obama has voiced support, particularly during the Kentucky primary. Biden's apparent answer: He supports clean coal for China, but not for the United States. "No coal plants here in America," he said. "Build them, if they're going to build them, over there. Make them clean." "We’re not supporting clean coal," he said of himself and Obama who do, on paper, support clean coal.

Millions and millions of Democrats heard the Clintons and Biden and other tell the truth about Obama during the primaries...and they believed it. Now, a not-insignificant percentage of them recognize the politics and shallowness of the "support" their former candidates are now giving the OBAMANATION. They are going to vote accordingly and it is going to make a difference. Please watch and spread this RNC video around. THE CLINTONS AND BIDEN ON OBAMA...IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, hugs his vice presidential running mate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., at a rally in Sunrise, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. U.S. Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) introduces Presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at a campaign rally in Sunrise, Florida, October 29, 2008. U.S. Democratic Presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) hands back a baby into the crowd following a campaign rally in Sunrise, Florida, October 29, 2008. The TelePrompTer shows the time left as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., with vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden,...

Ebay is auctioning Cabbage Patch dolls of all four candidates. I think they are hilarious! Some of the bidding is going quite high and the profits go to Toys for Tots. Many of you fellow ladies who like dolls may get a kick out of this. Sarah Palin doll: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200267359418

Just look at how they're muzzling the vice presidential candidate! No, not Sarah Palin: OCALA, Fla., Oct. 28 Joe Biden spoke to supporters here for 14 minutes and 25 seconds Tuesday morning -- and that's big news. Until he became Barack Obama's running mate in August, Biden could take that long just to say "good morning"; now the Democratic senator from Delaware has to give his entire stump speech in that span. On Capitol Hill he used to speak endlessly on any subject to anybody who asked for his view (and many who did not); now he has to read...

We just got off the phone with Channel 9 in Florida — the station that dared to ask substantive questions in an interview Joe Biden did with reporter Barbara West. It seems the station is being flooded with calls from Obama followers, coordinated on some level, angry Biden was questioned about Obama’s socialist agenda and his similarities to Karl Marx. Channel 9 needs our support! Throughout this election, Obama’s opponents are scrutinized and eviscerated by the media, while Obama’s been asked only softball questions. “Would you like another pillow?” comes to mind. The Obama campaign has informed Channel 9 it...

The conventional wisdom seems to be that, by selecting the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - a veteran of more than 35 years as a Washington insider - as his vice-presidential running mate, Sen. Barack Obama has more than adequately compensated for his own total lack of foreign policy and national security experience.

Barack Obama, clarifying Joe Biden's statement that he will face an international crisis if elected, says his running mate "sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes." The next administration will face international challenges regardless of who is elected president, Barack Obama said Wednesday, rebutting criticism of Joe Biden's statement over the weekend that the Democratic candidate will face a "generated crisis" if elected. Obama said the key reason the next president will face such threats is because of the damaging policies of the past eight years, and he said he's confident his administration will meet such a test. "Whoever is the next...

Joe Biden spoke directly to John McCain during a speech Tuesday afternoon, demanding that his campaign end robo-calls that attack Barack Obamas character. “You've heard a lot of scurrilous ads and phone calls lately which lie about Barack Obama and also raise unfair questions about his character,” said Biden to a crowd of several thousand in rural Colorado. “A lot of Democrats are angry. But folks: if, God willing, we win this, when we win, we have to reach out. We have to isolate those extremes. We have to reach out to Democrats and Republicans and Independents.” “And I say...

On today’s episode of “Ellen,” Joe Biden told Ellen DeGeneres “that if I lived in California, I would vote against Proposition 8.” This initiative reads, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” Yet in his debate with Sarah Palin on October 2, Biden said that “Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage.” Catholic League president Bill Donohue weighed in on this today: “Proposition 8 is a civil initiative that would secure marriage as an institution that is exclusively between a man and a woman, and Joe Biden...

Here before us is a Soviet archival document,* a top secret report by a communist apparatchik who had received a delegation of US Senators led by Joseph Biden in 1979. After describing routine arms control discussions, it quotes Biden as telling the Soviets off-record that he did not really care about the persecution of Russian dissidents. He and other Senators might raise human rights issues with their Soviet counterparts, but only to be seen by the public as defenders of human rights, not to have those problems really solved. They would happily take no for an answer. Vadim V. Zagladin,...

TAMPA -- Hundreds of people are filing into the Sun Dome at University of South Florida where Democratic nominee Sen. Joe Biden is expected to give a speech on the economy in about an hour. Two McCain supporters paced the line and waved a big blue McCain-Palin sign, drawing heckles like this one, from a woman in an Obama t-shirt: "You probably have a job! A lot of people here don't." And, "You must have good health care!" Joseph Flita, from Tampa, said he used to be a McCain supporter but the selection of Sarah Palin as a running mate...

<p>Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican rival Sarah Palin is injecting fear and loathing into their campaign with her criticism that Barack Obama is friends with a terrorist. He called the effort "mildly dangerous."</p> <p>Palin began last weekend telling supporters that Obama is close to '60s-era radical William Ayers, a founder of the violent group the WeatherUnderground. After first claiming that Obama had been "palling around with terrorists," she changed the thrust of the attack to say that Obama's ties to Ayers showed bad judgment.</p>

Great lines from a good piece: ---------------------------------- Then there's the Senator's astonishing claim that Mr. Obama "did not say he'd sit down with Ahmadinejad" without preconditions. Yet Mr. Biden himself criticized Mr. Obama on this point in 2007 at the National Press Club: "Would I make a blanket commitment to meet unconditionally with the leaders of each of those countries within the first year I was elected President? Absolutely, positively no." ... Closer to home, the Delaware blarney stone also invited Americans to join him at "Katie's restaurant" in Wilmington to witness middle-class struggles. Just one problem: Katie's closed in...

Has Joe Biden had some work done? A top Manhattan plastic surgeon thinks so, after comparing some shots from Thursday night's debate with earlier photos of the Delaware senator. "Yes, absolutely, and I would bet my next paycheck on this assessment," said Dr. Oleh Slupchynskyj, of the Aesthetic Institute. After being shown the shots by The Post, the doctor concluded that most of the work was around Biden's eyes. "It appears that he had some sort 'Lateral Brow/Eyelid Lift,' " he told The Post. "Whether it be a string lift or a formal surgical lift, [it's] hard to say. But...

It wasn’t the trash-talking you see before a football game, but Sarah Palin showed some spunk today at a rally in Ohio. With a new poll showing Barack Obama the decisive winner in the first presidential debate, all eyes are on Thursday night’s vice presidential debate. Let’s just move forward After a week that provided plenty of fodder for Saturday Night Live material, the Republican nominee for vice president was a crowd pleaser today and seemed eager to talk about the upcoming debate. “I guess it’s my turn now,” she said. “And I do look forward to Thursday night.” “I’m...

It seems that Senator Joe Biden wants to question other people’s patriotism. In order to manage this remarkable volte-face, The Good Senator has redefined the term in an interesting fashion. It seems paying income taxes is the highest form of patriotism. I always have abided by the law. Doing so is good citizenship and smart self-preservation. But is it patriotism? Not so much. This is particularly true in the case of taxation. However, Biden just can’t help flapping his gums and burning through the CO2 offsets. The man is a menace to the art of public speaking."We want to take...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Someone should break the bad news to Sen. Joe Biden: As a vice presidential candidate he's doing far worse than Dan Quayle. In 1988 Quayle became a national laughingstock to the liberal American mainstream media. But he did succeed in helping rally an even-then somewhat dubious Reaganite-conservative GOP base behind Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush, who coasted to an easy victory over Democratic nominee Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. It is far better for vice presidential candidates to be lightning rods who are despised by the national media but who are good at rallying the...

Seldom has there been a larger contrast between the style of a candidate and the strategy of his campaign. Barack Obama is cool, firm and permanently unruffled. It is precisely this quality of steadiness that has made him seem a credible prospective president with the thinnest of résumés. But Obama's campaign is rootless, reactive and panicky. At every stage since securing the nomination, it has seemed fearful of missteps and unsure of its own organizing principle. So it has invariably adopted the Democratic conventional wisdom of the moment. Obama's first major decision was his running mate. He could have reinforced...

Joe Biden will deliver a high-profile first attack in a sustained anti-McCain offensive in a speech called "Bush 44" Monday in the key battleground state of Michigan. While the lines of attack have long been drawn, Biden will assert — as the title indicates — that a McCain presidency would amount to a third Bush term and will focus, in a detailed, comprehensive and aggressive way, on John McCain's domestic policies and harsh campaign tactics, a campaign aide told Politico. Biden will deliver the speech in St. Clair Shores, Mich., in Macomb County, the area whose voters inspired Democratic pollster...

(AP) Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager. Officials with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign released Biden's Selective Service records at the request of The Associated Press. Less detailed records were available from a National Archives facility in Philadelphia. According to the documents, Biden, 65, received several deferments while he was an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University. A...

Joe Biden - who despite representing Delaware in the Senate likes to make a big deal about being born in Scranton Pennsylvania because, let’s face it, the latter is more important on the election map - introduced Obama in Beaver Pennsylvania in what has to be one of the most awkwardly-worded introductions of all time "Bob Casey was twelve years older than me, and Bobby Casey was twelve years younger than me. And I knew somebody famous was going to come out of Scranton, and I sure a’ hell knew it wadn’t gonna be me." Uh, yeah Anyway, what’s interesting...

The Biz Flog for Aug. 27, 2008 looks at Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) and his statements on regulation, health care, climate change and campaign finance reform. ...more (w/video)...

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday night that the challenges America faces require ``more than a good soldier'' in the White House and called Barack Obama a wise leader who can deliver the change the nation needs. In a single sentence, Obama's new running mate complimented John McCain's years of military service and slapped his claim on the presidency. The Delaware senator told the Democratic National Convention he'd learned a lot about Obama by campaigning against him for his party's presidential nomination. Biden was an early dropout in that campaign, quitting after he managed only 1 percent of...

After the Barack Obama campaign announced early Saturday morning that Delaware senator Joseph Biden would fill out the Democratic presidential ticket, an army of merry rightwing photoshoppers went to work. One well-circulated manipulation of an Obama campaign graphic placed the two pols, both with broad smiles, in front of a cut-and-paste crowd. The headline: "Joe Biden: Old. White. Boring."

Analysis: Biden fills attack role By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press WriterSat Aug 23, 5:59 PM ET Barack Obama says Joe Biden is ready to step in as president. He's not bad in the role of attack dog, either, wasting no time gnawing at GOP rival John McCain......... But that was then. And this, call it Target McCain, is now.

With the choice of Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to be his running mate, Sen. Barack Obama shored up what many perceive to be his own glaring weaknesses. Biden is experienced in the ways of Washington, while Obama is relatively new to the nation's capital. Biden is an expert on foreign affairs as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, while Obama is a novice. And Biden comes from working class roots and boasts an ease in communicating with blue-collar workers that Obama has struggled to develop. To many voters, Biden is likely to be seen as someone who could...

BIDEN: "This election year the choice is clear. One man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need. A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States...BARACK AMERICA!!!"

It's hard for Obama supporters to play the age card any longer, as their potential veep is all of six years younger than McCain. His mouth will be an absolute time bomb. Will he refer to Delaware as a "slave state" again? Will he discuss who's behind the counter at 7-11s? I'm reminded of a Rudy Giuliani response when Biden took a shot at him - "Joe's a good guy, we all criticize each other during this time... But for Joe Biden to talk about qualifications - he's never run a city, he's never run a state, he's never run...

In choosing Senator Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate, Barack Obama has acknowledged his own shortcomings while recognizing that the election he and his people thought a cakewalk a few months ago is now a battle royale along the lines of the 2000 and 2004 contests. Republicans would do well not to celebrate too much over this choice. On the surface, it may appear to be a mistake - an almost comically bad selection by Obama due to Biden's well known (and well documented) verbal gaffes. And, as Politico points out, this should worry the Obama camp: But...

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WASHINGTON--A prominent Senate Democrat on Wednesday said federal and local police should use custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal activity, and he wants to spend $1 billion in tax dollars to help make that happen. At an afternoon Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about child exploitation on the Internet, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) said he was under the impression it's "pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation" simply by looking at file names. He urged use of those techniques by investigators to help nab the most egregious offenders....

Excerpt - PORTSMOUTH — Presidential hopeful Delaware Sen. Joe Biden stated unequivocally that he will move to impeach President Bush if he bombs Iran without Congressional approval. Biden spoke in front of a crowd of approximately 100 at a Seacoast Media Group forum Thursday, which focused on the Iraq War and foreign policy. When an audience member expressed fear of another war with Iran, he said he does not typically engage in threats, but had no qualms about issuing a direct warning to the oval office. “The President has no authority to unilaterally attack Iran and if he does, as...

In an interview with The Washington Post's editorial board, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) asserted that he is more prepared to be president than any other candidate, disputed the notion that governors are better suited for the White House than senators and warned that Pakistan is a potentially bigger threat than Iran. Biden also stumbled through a discourse on race and education, leaving the impression that he believes one reason that so many District of Columbia schools fail is the city's high minority population. His campaign quickly issued a statement saying he meant to indicate that the disadvantages were based on...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Top Democratic Senator Joseph Biden Tuesday told the US war commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, that his military "surge" was failing to translate into political peace in Baghdad. "We should stop the surge and start bringing our troops home," the Senate's foreign relations committee chairman said at the start of a second day of hearings with Petraeus in Congress. After a moment of silence on the sixth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, Biden assailed President George W. Bush's strategy launched in February of surging another 28,500 US troops into Iraq. "The one thing virtually...

A coworker of mine was at New York Penn Station on Tuesday night at 8:45 PM waiting on a train to New Jersey after arriving from Boston. As this person was looking at the departure board in the concourse, there stood Joe Biden, on the phone, with a blonde haired woman next to him. "I just spoke to Hillary. Yeah, I'm in the top 3 for VP." Biden then looked over at my coworker and said, "I'll call you back in a minute when I'm not in public," and then made a bee-line for the platform of the departing DC...

DES MOINES — Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat running for president, is a man of strong opinions. During a campaign event in a Des Moines backyard today, Mr. Biden had some choice words for President Bush and two of the Republicans running for the White House. “This guy is brain dead,” Mr. Biden said to surprised applause and laughter from the crowd. “I know I’ll be quoted, I’ll be killed for that.” “This is a guy who is on the balls of his heels, here’s a guy who is lower off in the polls than any president in modern history...

Blunt talk from Joe Biden, picked up by C-SPAN answering a man's question at Jim Clyburn's fish fry April 27 in Columbia, SC. Biden is asked what he'll do when Bush, as is expected, vetoes the Iraq funding bill. First, he talks about his son, and the equipment soldiers need -- "The idea that we're not building new Humvees with the V-shaped things is just crap. Kids are dying that don't have to die." And: "Second thing is, we're going to shove it down his throat."

Biden Vows to Narrow Bush's Iraq Mandate Feb 15 1:22 PM US/Eastern By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday he would move to repeal the authority Congress gave President Bush in 2002 to send U.S. troops into Iraq and replace it with a narrower mandate. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the legislation was based on the idea that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was designed to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "The WMDs were not there," Biden said in prepared remarks at the Brookings Institution,...

Biden Camp Dismisses 'Clean' Remark By JAKE TAPPER January 31, 2007— Senator Joe Biden, D-Dela., the loquacious chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who launched his presidential campaign on Wednesday may be experiencing an ailment not entirely unknown to him: foot in mouth disease. Instead of media attention for his experience or expertise on Iraq, Biden is today taking some heat for comments he made to the New York Observer, in which he says of a rival for the nomination Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean...

SEN. BIDEN SHOCK INTERVIEW: OBAMA FIRST 'CLEAN' BLACK IN MAINSTREAM... 'I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy'...

Delaware Sen. Joe Biden officially launched his presidential campaign and has come out of the gate swinging — not at President Bush and the Republicans, but at fellow Democrats seeking their party's nomination.

Biden: 'Failed policy' emboldens enemy By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer 34 minutes ago The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman on Sunday dismissed criticism that a resolution opposing a troop buildup in Iraq would embolden the enemy and estimated perhaps only 20 senators believe President Bush "is headed in the right direction." "It's not the American people or the U.S. Congress who are emboldening the enemy," said Democratic Sen. Joe Biden, a White House hopeful in 2008. "It's the failed policy of this president — going to war without a strategy, going to war prematurely." The Democratic-controlled Senate plans to...