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"I'm pleased that in our quest to reform the health care system, I have gained the support of the American Medical Association," Obama told the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner Friday night. "It proves true the old expression that it's easier to catch flies with honey. And if honey doesn't work, feel free to use an open palm and a swift, downward wrist motion." President Obama said he and Mika Brzezinski both had partners named "Joe" who "don't know when to stop talking."

Oops! Such a reaction would be adequate if you locked yourself out of your car. It happens to most of us at one time or another. However, it is woefully inadequate as a response when you blow nearly $800 billion of taxpayers money on a government program that failed completely. Such was the response of VP Joe Biden on Meet The Press yesterday when he said that "everyone guessed wrong" on the economic stimulus package.Oops!And now the DUmmies are upset that Biden said this out in the open where it is sure to hurt their Beloved Barack bigtime as...

The attempts to marginalize Sarah Palin with insults, false charges and crude jokes are clearly because they fear her and they hate her. Yes, some left-wing pundits like Katie Couric were able to trip her up due to her lack of experience in the big leagues of talking heads and vicious, left-wing blogs and journalists, but let no-one forget that it was Joe Biden who made a fool of himself in his debate with Palin. During the debate, Biden made 17 documented errors of fact on the Consitution and on recent history, particularly in foreign affairs, while Sarah made none.

The Record had a chance to ask about an environmental group’s complaint that Amtrak would not be able to use the new Hudson River tunnel – which is benefitting from a provision of the stimulus bill increasing the Federal Transit Administration’s debt limit -- because it doesn’t go to Penn Station.

Vice President gaff-o-matic strikes again. Construction finally began on the nation's largest transportation project in North Bergen, New Jersey this week. After much debate and planning an $8.7 billion tunnel that is supposed to double the number of train commuters that can travel between New Jersey and Manhattan broke ground at last. Vice President Joe Biden was so excited about the tunnel that he mentioned the project on a Monday conference call with various newspapers and interested parties in New Jersey. He was proud that the Obama administration had sent stimulus money to this new tunnel "designed to provide for...

That new tunnel? The one NJ Transit has been touting for years? That the Federal Transit Administration made a huge commitment to on Monday? It’s for cars. Or so Vice President Biden apparently thinks. Biden had just finished telling reporters on a conference call Monday that federal stimulus money might have gone out slower in the past few months than some people liked because, “We don’t end up with any major glitches.” Then The Record had a chance to ask about an environmental group’s complaint that Amtrak would not be able to use the new Hudson River tunnel – which...

Vice President Joe Biden, center, flanked by Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, left, and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, speaks at a roundtable discussion to discuss high speed rail, Wednesday, June 3, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a Recovery Act roundtable at Pace University's Lubin School of Business in New York June 2, 2009. New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine, right, waves to supporters as Vice President Joe Biden greets audience members at Corzine's primary election night victory rally in West Orange, N.J., Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The congressional cussing caucus is in need of new members. The Capitol lost its prince of profanity when Rahm Emanuel left for the White House five months ago. But it’s not just Emanuel’s departure that has turned Congress less blue. Gone, too, are Joe Biden — whose F-bombs are now largely confined to the Naval Observatory —and Tim Mahoney, the Florida Democrat who lost his reelection bid after admitting to “numerous” extramarital affairs. “He said f—- all the time,” recalls a former Mahoney senior aide. “He cursed people. He called Barney Frank names; he called everybody names. He called his...

“What am I going to tell the President, when I tell him that his teleprompter is broken. What will he do then?” TDC asks, might Obama go through withdrawal if they don’t get him his daily teleprompter fix?

After the wind blows down the teleprompter of Vice President Biden at the Air Force Academy graduation he joked "what am I going to tell the President when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?"

Biden takes dig at Obama over teleprompter use Posted: 04:32 PM ET From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney (CNN) — Joe Biden couldn't help but take a dig at his boss Wednesday when one of the vice president's teleprompter screens fell down during his commencement speech at the U.S. Air Force Academy. "What am I gonna tell the president?" Biden said as a gust of wind knocked down his left teleprompter. "I'm gonna tell him his teleprompter is broken. What will he do then?" The off-handed quip immediately drew laughter and some the loudest cheers of day from the graduates....

Vice President Joe Biden is in Beirut today, hoping to boost the Lebanese moderates’ chances of holding off Hezbollah’s drive to seize power in the upcoming elections there. Best of luck, Joe. Of course, it’s an open question whether Biden’s appearance will help or hurt the American-backed coalition led by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, which opposes Hezbollah. Despite disclaimers of neutrality, Biden stated clearly that future American aid to the government would be affected by the elections’ outcome.

Thank goodness for Vice President Joe Biden. In one of the few amusing parts of the Wanda Sykes comedy routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, she said: "God forbid that Joe Biden falls into the hands of terrorists....We're done. Oh, they won't even have to torture him. All they have to do is go, 'How's it going, Joe?'" Indeed. It seems that all a reporter has to do to find out about the pickle Barack Obama's is really in over his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison is to ask the veep, who was talking to the press...

President Obama is so "distracted by his vice president's indiscipline" that he has been forced to rebuke privately Vice President Joe Biden, according to a new book by Newsweek journalist Richard Wolffe, who interviewed Obama a dozen times. "He can't keep his mouth shut," Wolffe quotes a "senior Obama aide" as saying of the gaffe-prone Biden in "Renegade: The Making of a President," set for release June 2. "Soon after Jarrett pulled out of consideration for the Senate seat, the senior transition team met to discuss cabinet picks," Wolffe writes. "Biden tried to compliment Jarrett after one contribution. 'You should...

I contacted the Vice President's office, asking about Biden's statement in his speech in Kosovo: During his speech, Mr. Biden recalled his trip to the country in 1993, and how, flying in at the time, his plane was fired upon, and bombed-out homes with snipers inside could be seen. Biden's office referred me to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee trip report from the 1993 trip. To Biden's credit, it does appear his delegation was passing through some dangerous territory on that trip. However, it doesn't quite line up with his statement that his plane was fired upon.

In his first quarterly report on the nation's stimulus package, Vice President Joe Biden uses anecdotes to paint a glowing picture of an economy on the rebound. In reality, the picture is incomplete and the colors far more muted. It is not disputed that Washington is spending historic amounts of money at a rate far faster than normal. Workers are getting tax breaks, Washington is picking up a greater share of state Medicaid costs and road construction projects are beginning.

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...

Joe Biden addresses students at Bellevue Elementary School in New York on May 10th: BIDEN: How many of you kids want to go to college? Well, guess what? Barack Obama and Joe Biden are going to make sure that every single one you who qualify are going to get to go to college even if you don't have the money in your family to go. We're going to make sure you get there.

WASHINGTON, Momentarily -- Thrown repeatedly off message by a series of poorly timed or ill-considered comments by the government's second-ranking official, the Obama White House is giving serious thought to putting Vice President Joe Biden on a perpetual seven-second sound delay. According to two senior administration sources who requested anonymity, the White House is weighing the benefits of implanting a computer chip just above the vice president's jawbone, where it would receive electronic impulses from Biden's brain and temporarily reroute them to a monitoring station within the West Wing for real-time review. Non-controversial statements would be relayed back to Biden's...

See why the veep thinks his dog is smarter than Obama's and check out our list of must-reads that will have you chatting at the lunch counter, over IM or wherever it is that people actually talk these days. Veep Joe Biden told a group of fifth-graders yesterday that his dog was much smarter than president Obama's. "I got one that lives with me," he said when one student asked whether he had ever petted a dog. "The smartest, coolest dog in the world. His name is Champ. I kid the president that my dog's smarter than Bo, his dog....

New York—Not to be outdone by the Republican Pizza Parlor, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have plans to fly to New York and have pizza for lunch. While stuffing their faces with one of Dominico DeMarco’s pizzas—at Di Fara Pizzas in Brooklyn, New York—they intend on listening to the voters of New York in order to pander to them properly. Obama feels it is time to spread his gospel to the voters of New York, as well as apologize for the photo opportunity taken with the Statue of Liberty. Voters have been asked to come from far and wide to...

Some bright researchers say they've created the world's smallest incandescent lamp, so teeny it's invisible except when lit. The lamp's filament is just 100 atoms wide. It is made from a single carbon nanotube. When lit, the itty-bitty bulb can be seen with the unaided eye as a point of light, the scientists say. Thomas Edison's light bulbs also used carbon filaments. But the new filament, created at UCLA, is 100,000 times narrower and 10,000 times shorter than those made by Edison. But why? The breakthrough comes at a time when inventors are moving away from incandescents, even looking beyond...

Joe Biden said during the runup to the elections that he is the “best friend Israel has in Congress.” He also claimed that after his years at the Capitol, he had already forgotten more about foreign policy than most of his colleagues ever knew. If his recent address to AIPAC is proof of how deep his knowledge and understanding of the realities of foreign affairs is, then he must indeed have forgotten everything he ever knew! It used to be that vice-presidents were seen but not heard, that was an American tradition. This was the case. especially in sensitive foreign...

As expected, Joe Biden is fast becoming the clown prince of Washington D.C. His never ending case of athlete's mouth resulting from his penchant for sticking his foot between his chompers is something that should be no surprise to any long-time Biden watcher. But, amusingly, UPI tries to re-center the Biden story, rescuing him from ridicule, to discuss the supposedly important things that President Obama has entrusted to the vice president. In "Biden soldiers on amid comedic jabs," we find UPI trying to tell us of all the important, important stuff our gabby VP is in charge of. But even...

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to workers and volunteers and then signs a banner at the National Domestic Violence Hotline Headquarters, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 in Austin, Texas. CEO Sheryl Cates looks on during the visit. Vice President Joe Biden, right, embraces Cindy Loper, a worker at the National Domestic Violence Hotline Center, and signs a book for Dominique Amescua, during his visit Tuesday, April 28, 2009, in Austin, Texas. He spoke later and said that curbing violence against women also helps tens of thousands of American children who witness the violence and may become homeless because of it. Vice...

<p>Vice President Joe Biden, who infamously advised Americans against entering confined transportation spaces during the current swine flu outbreak, will enter the Wilmington Amtrak train station in Delaware this morning.</p> <p>For all 36 years of his long Senate career, Biden used the Wilmington station daily on his commute to and from the Capitol. Which means that Biden was riding the rails as a U.S. senator way back when the current president was on an elementary school playground.</p>

A goodie from this morning’s Fox News Sunday courtesy of Greg Hengler. Think of this as a blunter — and therefore meaner and funnier — version of the question Tapper used to make Gibbs squirm. We all know what the correct answer is, and we all know that Sebelius can’t give that answer. The suspense mounts: Can she figure out a tactful way to avoid saying, “Yes, he’s a moron”? Incidentally, after warning Americans about the dangers of confined spaces during this time of non-epidemic, Vice President Crackpot hopped the Amtrak home to Delaware yesterday. A symbolic show of support...

Joe Biden’s not a loose cannon, an undisciplined, motor-mouthed gaffe-machine on wheels. Nope. He’s just “known for speaking freely.” Just ask the Associated Press. From AP’s story of today, After his flu warning, Biden takes the train home [emphasis added]: "One day after saying he wouldn’t travel in tight quarters because of the swine flu scare, Vice President Joe Biden rode a train Friday from Washington to Delaware. "Known for speaking freely, Biden told NBC’s “Today” show on Thursday that he had urged family members to avoid airplanes and subways for fear of contracting the H1N1 flu virus." Well, alright...

Vice President Joe Biden may also have some difficult questions to answer, according to John Hempton who blogs at Bronte Capital. Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge says: John Hempton, who writes the insightful blog Bronte Capital, has done some amazing dot connecting in what, if true, and not swept promptly under the carpet by the powers that be, could expose a hedge fund scandal that could rival the Madoff fiasco, for the simple reason that it implicates none other than Barack Obama’s right hand man: Joe Biden.... This is an intricate story. And it is my no means conclusive. But...

Despite His Own Flu Warning, Biden Takes Train Home Known for speaking freely, Biden told NBC's "Today" show on Thursday that he had urged family members to avoid airplanes and subways for fear of contracting the H1N1 flu virus FOXNews.com Friday, May 01, 2009 WASHINGTON -- One day after saying he wouldn't travel in tight quarters because of the swine flu scare, Vice President Joe Biden rode a train Friday from Washington to Delaware.

While network evening news broadcasts were covering for Joe Biden's swine flu gaffe, Fox News's Chris Wallace called the Vice President's advise that folks avoid getting on airplanes or riding subways "a serious mistake" and "reckless" leading the "Fox News Sunday" host to ask, "Is he nuts?" Appearing on WOR radio's "Steve Malzberg Show" Thursday, Wallace also discussed how "exquisitely sensitive to anything that's negative, any criticism" President Obama is, adding how the recent attacks of Tea Party attendees and Fox News commentators "doesn't strike me as very presidential." Wallace also said Obama's press conference Wednesday night wasn't "very newsy"...

Mere days after an Air Force One backup buzzed Lower Manhattan, panicking thousands and reviving memories of 9/11, VP Biden scared the bejabbers out of straphangers...."I would not be . . . suggesting [my family] ride the subway." Biden is famous for his dumb utterances.......but there's a real cost to fomenting panic -- if the consequence further depress NY's economy. Time to zip it joe.

Please pay no attention to what the Vice President actually says when it differs from the official White House line on swine flu

Surely one of the worst jobs in Washington is that of cleaning up after the Human Gaffe Machine, AKA Joe Biden . . . On shovel duty today at the White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs made a laughingstock of himself as he asserted what Biden “meant to say” regarding swine flu. The press corps didn’t merely titter at Gibbs’ travails. They outright laughed in his face at the press sec’s tortured attempt at vice-presidential revisionism. View video here.

<p>Was Joe Biden giving solid advice . . . or sewing the seeds of panic? Asked on Today this morning how he’d counsel family members in light of the swine flu, the Veep said he wouldn’t take a plane, a subway train, or be in any other confined space.</p>

In the Musical Chicago, the women in prison bemoan the lack of manners in 1930's Chicago, Whatever happened to fair dealing? And pure ethics And nice manners? Why is it everyone now is a pain in the ass? Whatever happened to class? Though the ladies in Chicago were talking about the US seventy years ago, they could have been singing about Vice President, Joe Biden, today well, yesterday. The Houston Chronicle reported that Biden visited Houston yesterday and bragged about persuading Arlen Specter to switch parties (I guess he did the voter intent polling). There he let out some classic...

Specter says that President Obama, his old friend Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have all agreed to campaign and raise cash for him -- and that he will welcome the fundraising help of Penn. Gov. Ed Rendell, another old friend. An unspecified group of national leaders will huddle together tomorrow to discuss those plans, he said.

... Of course, letting Joe [Biden] be Joe has been known to cause the occasional headache for Team Obama. Just over two weeks before Election Day, Biden uttered this unhelpful prediction at a Seattle fund-raiser: "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. ... Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." The day after the inauguration, the new vice president, while swearing in a batch of federal employees, joked about his memory being "not as good as Justice Roberts's"--a jab at...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ______________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 23, 2009 VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN ISSUES STATEMENT ON ACTING COMPTROLLER GENERAL GENE DODARO’S TESTIMONY AT HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS HEARING Vice President Biden issued this statement following the testimony of GAO Acting Comptroller General Gene Dodaro at this morning’s Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing: "From the beginning, we committed to not only work at record speed to provide immediate economic relief under the Recovery Act, but to do so with unprecedented accountability...

The University of Southern California likes broadcast journalist Katie Couric's pitches, provided that the CBS anchor lobs hardballs at conservatives and softballs at liberals. Specifically, Couric baited Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on her foreign policy experience when the Republican was John McCain's running mate in his unsuccessful quest for the U. S. presidency. Couric's colleagues lionized her for the exchange when they had previously dismissed the former Today anchor as a lightweight. Still, none questioned her failure, in an interview with Palin's opposite number, then-U. S. Senator Joe Biden, D-Delaware, to question him about his inability to correctly name the...

If only Vice President Joe Biden had stuck to plagiarism. But he apparently hasn’t learned. In 1987, he copied and used a large chunk of a speech given by British labor leader Neil Kinnock, even though some of the facts (related to family history) didn’t match his own. Since then, he’s gone from plagiarism to smashmouth rhetorician. Last week, Biden was called out by former Bush advisor Karl Rove because Biden repeatedly said he’d chastised President Bush in person. And Biden came out of the ensuing discussion with a lot of mud on his face. On April 6, 2009, Biden...

Last night I couldn't sleep, so I went down to the White House residence kitchen, and there was Joey B. It's not clear why he was down there rummaging through the fridge, but we ended up sitting down with warm milk and cookies, and he told me about the last time, as majority leader of the U.S. Senate, that he faced down a vicious crew of pirates. He and his family had gone on a cruise and the pirates attacked the boat with small arms fire, antiquated rocket launchers, and knives. They boarded, chased the women into the cabins, and...

Free national advertising. It's a thing that most business people hope for in their dearest dreams. What could be better than a national spotlight on your business without having to spend money on advertising? Well, dog breeder Linda Brown found out what could make that dream worse: Democrats. In December of 2008, Brown felt what she thought was the "honor" of being picked by Vice President elect Joe Biden as his source for a new German Shepherd puppy. "Out of millions of breeders in the country, in the world, he picked me," she gushed... at first. Then came the death...

Fifteen minutes of fame turned into four months of bitter remorse for the Chester County woman who sold the Bidens their adorable little German shepherd puppy. Linda Brown's been investigated, scorned and had her life threatened. "I thought when Joe Biden bought a puppy from me, what an honor," Brown told the Daily Local News. "Out of millions of breeders in the country, in the world, he picked me." That was December. When the story got out, Brown faced backlash from pet lovers who thought the Bidens should have opted for a shelter over a breeder to find their new...

Biden Brags: I Beat George W. Bush in Arm Wrestling by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace · No Comments (2009-04-10) — Vice President Joe Biden, under fire from Karl Rove and other former Bush administration officials for bragging that he ridiculed George W. Bush face to face in the White House, today claimed he had also once defeated President Bush in arm wrestling. “We were all alone in the Oval Office, as we often were,” said Mr. Biden, then a U.S. Senator. “I had just dissed old Georgie with another of my famous presidential put-downs, when he challenged me to arm...

With regards to Israel, the attention has been on President Obama, questions have arisen like, "is he anti-Israel?" or "How will he change US/Israel relations?" There has been very little attention on Vice-President Joe Biden, who frankly is not a friend of Israel either. Especially when it comes to Israel's self defense. During the recent Presidential campaign season, Biden exclaimed that Israel would have to get used to a nuclear Iran. Yesterday on CNN he warned Israel not to attack Iranian Nukes:

How sleazy and rock-bottom was Maggie Rodriguez’s interview of Levi Johnston and his family, aired on The Early Show this morning? At one point Rodriguez asked Levi’s sister whether she thought the Palins were “snobby.” Consider that. CBS thought it was good journalism to ask and appropriate to air the opinion of: the sister of the former boyfriend of the daughter of a former vice-presidential candidate whether she thought that former vice-presidential candidate’s family was “snobby.” View video here.

Wow, I just saw on Sportscenter some video of Biden throwing out the first pitch of the Orioles/Yankees game, and I am here to tell you the booing was thunderous. They showed pictures of fans in the stands, and they were not happy at all. The announcer even commented that they don't usually boo like that in Baltimore. I wonder if this is a bit of a barometer of the current feelings of apple pie and baseball Americans?