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Party leaders who spoke at a weekend fundraising banquet urged Iowa Democrats to “stand up” against Republicans and “stick with” the president. Congressman Bruce Braley of Waterloo was among the first to speak at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner on Saturday night.“It’s not acceptable for Democrats to be walking around looking glum because now is not the time for doubt. Now is not the time for fear,” Braley began.  “And now is not the time for silence.” Braley brought the crowd of Iowa Democrats to its feet by the end of his six-minute speech.“I want, as she sits in her...

<p>Three unmarked police vehicles, with their lights and sirens on, were travelling 5 to 10 minutes ahead of the motorcade on Manhattan's West Side and were checking traffic before Biden passed en route to a television appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," chief police spokesman Paul Browne said.</p>

<p>Vice President Biden’s motorcade was involved in a West Side collision that sent three people to the hospital today, sources said.</p> <p>Biden, who was headed to an appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," was not hurt. It was the second accident for Biden’s motorcade in two days.</p>

VP Biden's Motorcade Involved In Midtown Crash Witness: Livery Cab Cut Off Unmarked Police Car Escorting Vice President To 'Daily Show With Jon Stewart' Taping Crash Is The Third Involving Vice President's Detail In Last Week NEW YORK (CBS) ― CBS 2 HD has learned three people, including two members of Vice President Joe Biden's advance team, suffered minor injuries in a Midtown car accident on Tuesday evening. The two-car crash happened at approximately 5:40 p.m. at 49th Street and 10th Avenue. The victims and a police officer were taken to Roosevelt and New York hospitals. Biden was unharmed. According...

Vice President Joe Biden was in midtown today for a taping of the John Stewart show, and his security detail hit a bit of a snag while paving his way to the show. Three advance vehicles belonging to the NYPD were moving down 49th Street near 10th Avenue when they slammed into the back of a livery cab, officials said. The cars apparently had lights and sirens on at the time, officials said. Four people -- two NYPD officers and two civilians -- were injured, NYPD spokeswoman Barbara Chen said. Mr. Biden wasn't in the trail of cars at the...

You know the old saying "while the cat's away, the mice will play." With Obama safely bowing his way through Asia, Sheriff Joe Biden sneaks into the Oval Office and plans to fix all Barack's problems. I saw this Saturday Night Live opener last night and thought there were parts that were very funny. The end tends to fall a bit flat but the Biden commentary on the "stimulus is working," and "we're going to cave like crazy on health care," make this clip worth a watch.

Vice President Biden made a surprise visit to a homeless shelter in Washington DC on Friday to help serve lunch to dozens of homeless men. Biden dropped by the Father McKenna Center, a homeless shelter a few blocks away from the U.S. Capitol building that serves around 100 men during the day. It also offers counseling for substance abuse and an HIV/AIDS initiative. Dressed casually in a black baseball cap, sweater and khakis, Biden put on rubber gloves and an apron to help distribute fish sticks. Biden said he was there because “you've got to remind yourself that but for...

Note: Video included. Quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/09/vice-president-biden-leads-discussion-middle-class-families-dc Vice President Biden Leads Discussion on Middle Class Families in D.C. Posted by Terrell McSweeny on November 09, 2009 at 04:09 PM EST On Thursday at the Center for American Progress in Washington D.C., Vice President Biden moderated an in-depth discussion focusing on the long-term, structural challenges facing middle class families in today’s economy. Joined by a panel of policy experts, the group focused on broader issues such as the overall labor market in recent decades; shifting gender roles and the need for work-life balance in today’s economy; economic inequality and mobility; the increased gap...

Vice President Biden released a statement today expressing sympathy to those affected by the shootings at Fort Hood that left 12 dead and 31 wounded. Here is the full text, as released by the White House: Jill and I join the President and Michelle in expressing our sympathies to the families of the brave soldiers who fell today. We are all praying for those who were wounded and hoping for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts and prayers are also with the entire Fort Hood community as they deal with this senseless tragedy.

On Today's Show... November 2, 2009 Stop Nationalized Health Care! Join Michelle Bachman and Mark Levin on Thursday in DC   El Rushbo Goes to News Church, FNS Interview Shakes Up Beltway It's nothing that Rush hasn't said on his show. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » Interview Transcript and Video: Rush on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace   David Axelrod and Joe Biden Campaign Against Rush They don't know what we're for? They know, and it terrifies them. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » Here's What We're For, Mr. Biden: Rush's WSJ Op-Ed on Harriet Miers   Dede Scozzafava...

Palin's Latest Facebook Note As the vice president knows, I have always advocated an all-of-the-above approach to American energy independence. Among other things, my alternative energy goal for Alaska sits at 50 percent because Alaska reached more than 20 percent during my term in office. The Obama-Biden administration, on the other hand, recently announced a renewable goal of only 25 percent. However, domestic drilling should remain a top priority in order to meet America’s consumption and security needs. The vice president’s extreme opposition to domestic energy development goes all the way back to 1973 when he opposed the Alaska pipeline...

'I don't care what Dick Cheney thinks,' Biden says Posted: October 30th, 2009 02:40 PM ET From CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry Washington (CNN) – Vice President Biden on Friday fired back at criticism from his predecessor, former Vice President Cheney, that President Obama is "dithering" over his decision about whether to send up to 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. "I like Dick Cheney personally but I really don't care what Dick Cheney thinks and I'm not sure a lot of Americans do," Biden said in an exclusive interview with CNN. "Look at the policy they left...

Super Gaff-O-Matic! Biden Reveals Entire Fisker LineupBy Marty Padgett October 27th, 2009 Auto Show picture of concept Fisker Karma S Vice President Joe Biden, known for repeated instances of foot-in-mouth disease, unwittingly spilled the beans on Fisker Automotive's plan for a Delaware-built, three-vehicle family of plug-in hybrids. Fox News reports that Biden told press gathered in Wilmington, Del., that Fisker would eventually build 100,000 plug-in hybrid sedans, coupes and crossovers "every single year." In a follow-up interview, founder Henrik Fisker told Fox that Biden "definitely told what our product plans are." Fisker's gambit in the government's full-court press for electrified...

Vice President Joe Biden's favorable rating has fallen to 42 percent in a new Gallup poll, down from a high of 59 percent just after last year's election. Biden's unfavorable rating in the new poll is 40 percent, up from 29 percent last November. (Eighteen percent of those surveyed say they have no opinion of Biden.) Biden's average favorable rating during his time in office so far is 45 percent -- well below the average 65 percent favorable rating for Vice President Dick Cheney during Cheney's first year in office. Vice President Al Gore's favorable rating during his first year,...

Biden’s Response to Cheney Criticism: ‘Who Cares?’ By PETER BAKER PRAGUE — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a blunt response Friday to the latest broadsides from former Vice President Dick Cheney: “Who cares?” In the latest exchange between old and new administrations, Mr. Biden rebuffed his predecessor’s criticism about President Obama’s handling of Afghanistan as “absolutely wrong.” And Mr. Biden rejected the last review of the war conducted by the White House under former President George W. Bush and Mr. Cheney as “irrelevant.” The dismissive reply came during in an interview here at the end of Mr. Biden’s...

What a shame. The state-run media was trying so hard to lift this buffoon up… Then he drops the d-word: “The US is in a depression. The US is in a depression.” Joe must have missed the memo- “Obama rescued the economy.”

Joe Biden: The Worrying Rise of Barack Obama’s Mr Wrong Vice-President Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of history on all the big questions, argues Toby Harnden Toby Harnden 17 Oct 2009 Want to know how to deal with a momentous issue of war or grand strategy? You could do a lot worse than check out what Vice-President Joe Biden thinks – and plump for the opposite. Mr Biden was chosen as Barack Obama's running mate last August because he was old, white and supposedly knew a lot about foreign policy. I say "supposedly" because really Mr Biden's...

Vice-President Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of history on all the big questions Want to know how to deal with a momentous issue of war or grand strategy? You could do a lot worse than check out what Vice-President Joe Biden thinks – and plump for the opposite. Mr Biden was chosen as Barack Obama's running mate last August because he was old, white and supposedly knew a lot about foreign policy. I say "supposedly" because really Mr Biden's overseas expertise amounted to having spent a long time as chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee, knowing...

If President Barack Obama escalates the “disastrous” war in Afghanistan, Arianna Huffington has some advice for Vice President Joe Biden: resign. Planting The Huffington Post, her popular news and aggregation site, in an ever firmer place to the left of the Obama administration, Huffington cited the arguments Biden has made in private against Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for 40,000 additional troops in Afghanistan, and wrote that “if the president does decide to escalate, Biden, for the good of the country, should escalate his willingness to act on those reservations.” Huffington’s attack on the escalation plans under consideration by the White...

Fronting the pews at this morning's Red Mass in DC's St Matthew's Cathedral: the nation's First Catholic -- Vice-President Joe Biden -- joined by six Supreme Court Justices, including the bench's Chief John Roberts and newest member Sonia Sotomayor, both likewise of the fold. While the fulltext has yet to emerge, the wire's running a snip from the day's visiting preacher: The specialized, formal knowledge of the law "frequently becomes semi-mechanical, even distancing," [Cardinal Daniel] DiNardo [of Galveston-Houston] told the congregation. "The law and lawyers are around because justice among human beings will always be an issue." "Even sophisticated,...

Vice President Biden, eight days ago, explaining why the diminished threat from Iran justified the administration's decision to betray our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic by discarding a previously agreed upon missile defense system in Eastern Europe: "[Biden said] Iran — a key concern for the United States — was not a threat."I think we are fully capable and secure dealing with any present or future potential Iranian threat," he told CNN's Chris Lawrence in Baghdad, where he is on a brief trip."The whole purpose of this exercise we are undertaking is to diminish the prospect of the...

Vice President Joe Biden told the nation's governors Thursday that if the $787 billion stimulus fails, "I'm dead." Biden, who holds regular calls with governors and mayors to chart the progress of the stimulus package, said he was pushing accountability standards purely out of "self-interest." "If it fails, I'm dead," he said.

SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Vice President Joe Biden sought to reassure nervous seniors Wednesday that they won't see cuts in their Medicare benefits if the nation's health care system is revamped. "Nobody is going to mess with your benefits. All we do is make it better for people on Medicare," Biden told about 150 people at Leisure World in suburban Maryland. President Barack Obama and the White House contend that Medicare benefits won't be affected even though legislation in Congress would cut payments to Medicare Advantage plans by more than $100 billion over 10 years.

Joe Biden. The favorite son of Scranton, Pennsylvania currently serving in Wilmington, Delaware in the role of Village Idiot - too much competition for that role in Washington, but the President won't let him play in the federal playground, anyway - has snuck out to talk to the press again. And his words are ominous.

So it is. Thanks for the campaign commercial, sucka. Vice President Joe Biden said today that if Democrats were to lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts, it would mean doomsday for President Obama’s agenda. Biden said Republicans are pinning their political strategy on flipping these seats. “If they take them back, this the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do,” the vice president said at a fundraiser for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) today in Greenville, Delaware… Biden said these House seats are Republicans “one shot” at breaking the Obama...

Biden: GOP wins would be "end of the road" By Reid Wilson - 09/21/09 07:25 PM ET Vice President Joe Biden on Monday said if Republicans succeed in winning back the House in 2010, it would be the "end of the road" for the White House's agenda. At a fundraiser for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), Biden said the prospects for change rest with about 35 Democrats who sit in districts Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won in the 2008 election. It is those seats, Biden said, that are the GOP's leading targets. "They're going to put their chips on movement in...

Michelle Obama put the final nail in the coffin in the idea of Hillary Clinton becoming her husband's vice-presidential nominee, according to a new book. Author Christopher Andersen reported that Mrs Obama favoured Joe Biden, the president's eventual choice. "Do you really want Bill and Hillary just down the hall from you in the White House?" she reportedly told her husband. "Could you live with that?" Mr Obama later thought of the masterstroke of appointing the woman he narrowly defeated as his secretary of state. According to the New York Daily News , Mrs Obama was "fascinated" by the choice...

Here is video of conservative Gary Bauer hammering liberals for their selective outrage on "race." Bauer reminded everyone how liberal Democrats treated Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court. Bauer said the liberals are not "pro-Black." They are "pro-liberal blacks," as long as "they stay on the plantation." Below is video of Clarence Thomas firing back at his liberal inquisitors during the hearings . . . (VIDEOS)

Friday, September 11, 2009 VP Biden hits town for VIP fundraiser It will be at least a few more weeks before President Obama makes his first post-election visit to San Francisco, but Vice President Joe Biden will be in town this weekend on a fundraising mission for U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. Biden is slated to join Boxer and fellow Democrats at back-to-back events on Saturday: a $500-a-head cocktail affair at the Fairmont, followed by a $5,000-a-head dinner at the home of Lydia and Doug Shorenstein. With ex-Hewlett Packard CEO and Republican Carly Fiorina is revving up to challenge Boxer, you...

The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will travel to New York on Friday to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Spokesman Robert Gibbs says Biden will take part in the memorial service honoring the victims. The vice president's wife, Jill Biden, will also attend. President Barack Obama will be at the Pentagon Friday to visit the memorial to those who died there in the 2001 attacks and meet victims' families.

Controversial legislation that would make it easier to organize unions will pass this year, Vice President Joe Biden said today. Appearing at a Labor Day rally in Pittsburgh, Biden praised the role of unions in building the middle class and said the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will make it through Congress before the end of the year, the Associated Press reports. That's a very optimistic timeline, considering that Democrats are already putting all their legislative muscle behind healthcare reform.

Under a rainy sky, Vice President Joe Biden appeared at today's annual Pittsburgh Labor Day parade, joined by U.S. Sen Arlen Specter and Jack Shea, president of the Allegheny County Labor Council. Mr. Biden joked that the parade organizers would never invite him back, noting that his appearance last year was also weather-challenged -- then with the threat to the Gulf Coast of Hurricane Gustav, which prompted him to cancel his visit. While noting that "people are hurting" across the country, he boasted of the effects of the administration's economic stimulus package. Mr. Biden praised Mr. Specter's role in supporting...

Here is video from this morning where guest Roger Stone told Fox News' Megyn Kelly that punishment for children skipping school tomorrow in Broward County, Florida because of President Obama's "School Speech" will be to have to "listen to a speech by Vice-President Joe Biden." On a serious note, Kelly did say someone called a school and was told if their child skipped the speech, there would be a punishment of some kind. NOTE: The other Fox host said listening to a Biden Speech might violate the 8th Amendment - meaning the prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment." (VIDEO)

Just seen on Fox. Congressman Pallone now on with Cavuto trying to agree with Biden. Cavuto is having none of it, remarking that the Libs are using a New Math that simply lies by labeling such things as impossible future green jobs as "new jobs." Says Cavuto, if either Nixon or Bush had said we were creating a million jobs during previous recessions, they would have been laughed out of the country. But the press brothel -- silent in the face of such lies -- is still running interference for Obama. Pallone just said that the hope of creating a...

Vice President Joe Biden tried to blunt lingering skepticism of the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus plan Thursday. “I believe this was the right thing to do morally,” Biden said in a speech the White House billed as a major address. “It was also the smart thing to do economically.” Biden’s 35-minute speech included a look back at the state of the economy when President Barack Obama took office, a detailed defense of the stimulus package’s effectiveness in its second 100 days and a plea for patience as it continues to make more of an impact. The vice president touched...

(Father) "Thomas Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, released this statement concerning Senator Kennedy. "We must, as a matter of precept, pray for the salvation of heretical Catholics like Senator Edward Kennedy, but we do not have to praise him, let alone extol him with the full honors of a public Catholic funeral and all the adulation that attends such an event." He adds that while Senator Kennedy called himself Catholic, like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Joe Biden, they are actually wolves in sheep's clothing. "They do not hold to the teaching of the church....

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Vice President Joe Biden plans to attend the Little League World Series on Sunday, when he is enshrined into Little League's Hall of Excellence. The White House gave Little League the heads-up Friday night. Little League announced before the series started that they were honoring Biden. The vice president grew up in Scranton, where he played in the Green Ridge Little League, about 100 miles east of Little League's South Williamsport headquarters. New York Rangers center Chris Drury will also be enshrined into the Little League hall. Drury was the winning pitcher in the title game...

BC News' Sunlen Miller reports: An emotional Vice President Biden, today mourned the loss of Sen. Ted Kennedy – calling the late Senator his “friend” and “anchor” – at times wiping away tears in his eyes and pausing for moments to collect his thoughts. During an event at the Department of Energy intended to announce $300 million in grants to cities supporting clean fuels, infrastructure and vehicles, as part of the Recovery Act – Biden spent most of his time on stage – 8 minutes total – speaking about Kennedy. He apologized that the intention of the event would not...

Just wondering where they are keeping the VP locked up during this run towards fascism? Shackled in the basement of the super secret VP bunker? Betty Ford Clinic? It's mysterious that we aren't hearing uncle Joe's thoughts on nationalized health care.

Joe Biden knows who wears the pants in the White House — and apparently it isn't him. The vice president was joking about the former administration during a fundraising dinner Wednesday in Florida, when he responded to a suggestion that President Bush leaned heavily on Vice President Cheney for guidance. That's not how the Obama administration works, Biden reportedly told about 150 political donors at the Orlando event. "He's the president, I'm the vice president. We've got the pecking order in this administration right," Biden said. "I know George Bush, and he's no Barack Obama." Biden, known for his often...

WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden plans to announce Thursday nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals transition to electronic medical records.

Joe Biden knows who wears the pants in the White House — and apparently it isn't him. The vice president was joking about the former administration during a fundraising dinner Wednesday in Florida, when he responded to a suggestion that President Bush leaned heavily on Vice President Cheney for guidance. That's not how the Obama administration works, Biden reportedly told about 150 political donors at the Orlando event. "He's the president, I'm the vice president. We've got the pecking order in this administration right," Biden said. "I know George Bush, and he's no Barack Obama."

Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan praised the federal economic recovery package Wednesday, saying it had saved more than 1,600 jobs in Orange County's public school system alone and 26,000 education jobs across Florida. Speaking at Jackson Middle in Orlando, the two called public school teachers the key to improving the country's economic situation and said many already do excellent work. But they also said that President Barack Obama's administration isn't interested in maintaining the status quo but instead wants to use the unprecedented resources now available as part of the recovery act -- some...

Wonder where in the world is Joe B.? Is he too much of a liability to have out there campaigning for healthcare? Hmm...would ANY honest comments about this attempted abortion of a bill emit from his mouth?

oining Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cambridge cop Sgt. James Crowley and President Obama was a fourth "surprise guest" at last week's "beer summit": Vice President Biden. Given that the scheduled attendees looked more awkward than Sen. Robert Byrd at the NAACP Image Awards, Biden's presence made lots of sense. If you were Obama, wouldn't you want an oxygen-sucker such as Joltin' Joe to Hoover through all those painful silences with a vomit of words? No doubt, Obama figured: It doesn't matter what he has to say, so long as he keeps talking long enough for the press to...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden cited more positive economic data on Tuesday, using it to buttress the Obama administration's argument that its $787 billion stimulus program is doing its job and revving up the economy. "I can tell you today, without reservation, the Recovery Act is working," Biden told reporters after a White House meeting about the stimulus program with members of the administration's economic team. President Barack Obama was not present. Nearly six months after Obama signed the stimulus program into law, the administration is trying to counter criticism, as well as perceptions, that the program has failed...

"U.S. Defense Department official said Georgia was not ready for weapons acquisition, the issue pushed by President Saakashvili before the Vice President Biden’s visit to Tbilisi. Celeste A. Wallander, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, however, also told a congressional panel on July 28, that the issue was “not off the table” in the future. She made the remarks at the hearing of U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe after she was asked to comment about President Saakashvili’s statement made in an interview with The Washington Post asking the U.S. to provide Georgia with defensive...

First, let me say a very big THANK YOU!!! to Uncle Sham, who made what I consider a major catch about the whole certifigate deal. His original post is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2306118/posts?page=156#156 I will quote the relevant parts and then try to do some analysis. -------------------------------------------------------- Exhibit A, The Twentieth Amendment, Section 3 reads as follows: " ”3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of...