Joe Biden
October 11, 2012 — Steven Hayward
While we wait for the main event, let’s have a caption contest for this photo:
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October 10, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
The Obama campaign has responded to the defeat of its man in the first debate by accusing Romney of lying his way to victory. It thus becomes incumbent on Team Obama to make this assertion stick in a forum where the other side gets to participate. This task falls to Joe Biden in tomorrow’s vice presidential debate. His mission is not generally to reassure Americans that the country is in
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October 10, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
“Big stakes for Biden and Ryan in VP debate.” So reads the Washington Post’s headline to this story by Dan Balz. Actually, the debate of vice presidential candidates is almost always inconsequential in the end. The odds are that this will be the case once again. Vice presidential debates seem to take on a heightened importance when an incumbent president loses the first debate. In that event, the party in
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September 17, 2012 — Steven Hayward
Remember this infamous photo of the Elian Gonzalez raid in April 2000? It may well have cost Al Gore the election because of its effect on Cuban voters in Florida: Well, this equally infamous photo ought to cost Obama this election: But if you really want a Monday-morning fright, ponder this early start on the next time round:
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August 26, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
So Vice President Biden won’t be going to Tampa after all. Team Obama planned to dispatch him there to make sure the Dems and their talking points receive exposure during the Republican Convention. But the Obama campaign has cancelled the trip due to Tropical Storm Issac. Traditionally, presidential campaigns have stepped aside while the opposing party holds its national convention. This courtesy allows each party four days in which to
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August 19, 2012 — Steven Hayward
I’m sure many of you have seen the “Hey Girl, It’s Paul Ryan” tumblr site, which has been around for a long while now–long before Ryan became the VP pick. Well, it had to happen: the “Hey Girl, It’s Joe Biden” site is up and running, and it has just what you’d expect:
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August 18, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Even the Boston Globe is sick of Joe Biden. Its editorial board recounts Biden’s unfortunate history of bigoted statements and urges the Vice President to apologize for his claim that Republican efforts to loosen bank regulations means “they’re going to put y’all back in chains.” (Actually, I think Biden said “they,” not “they’re”). The Globe despairingly notes that President Obama has said, through his spokesperson, that he has no problem
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August 17, 2012 — Steven Hayward
The Washington Examiner is reporting right now that Obama’s consigliere Valerie Jarrett approached Hillary Clinton recently about replacing Joe Biden as Obama’s running mate, but that Hillary turned it down: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pressed by her husband and a top Obama aide to consider replacing Vice President Joe Biden just a couple of weeks ago, claims the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Amateur.” But
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August 17, 2012 — Scott Johnson
American Crossroads has posted the following advertisement on Barack Obama’s running mate. The video is titled “Run, Joe. Run.” Now this really isn’t a laughing matter, but the ad salvages humor from the mix. It puts me in mind of the Dude’s account of his recreational activities in The Big Lebowski. Mr. Vice President, what do you do for fun? “Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid
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August 17, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I predicted that Barack Obama would dump Joe Biden from the ticket if his internal polling showed that it would help him in the general election. It only took one news cycle for my supposition to be undermined, as the White House announced that the Dude abides. Perhaps the internal polling shows no bounce from possible replacements for Biden. Perhaps the Dude is performing his assigned tasks capably as
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August 16, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
While much attention has been paid, deservedly, to Joe Biden’s “put y’all back in chains” riff, his remarks (the same day) about Social Security received little notice. But they too show the Vice President of the United States to be a demagogue and a fool. According to the White House pool report, during a visit to a restaurant in southern Virginia, Clueless Joe told diners: Hey, by the way, let’s
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August 15, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Douglas Wilder, Virginia’s first and only African-American governor, took Vice President Biden to task for his claim that Mitt Romney will put “y’all back in chains.” Wilder called Biden’s remark “divisive” and “uncalled for.” Slavery, he added, “is nothing to joke about.” Wilder also focused on something I missed. By saying that “y’all” would be back in chains, Biden implied that the bad stuff Romney supposedly would rain down isn’t
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August 14, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Earlier today, as John noted, Joe Biden said the following to a predominantly black audience in Danville, Virginia: We got a real clear picture of what they all value. Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the — he said in the first hundred days he’s going to let the big banks once again
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April 26, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Vice President Biden has attacked Mitt Romney as “fundamentally wrong” and “totally out of touch” on foreign policy. That’s rich coming for Biden, who has been wrong on virtually every important foreign policy issue as far back as anyone can remember. Biden had the wrong line on the Cold War, as we’ll see below. He also opposed the successful Gulf War, while supporting (at the time of decision) the much
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