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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,...

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.

BORN IN THE USA? Shocker! Judge orders trial on eligibility issue Arguments planned Jan. 11 for major Obama challenge The left cries it's a forgery but cry is all it can do. Let's see... the embossed seal os a forgery, the court stamp is a forgery, the attending Doctor's signature is a forgery, the Supervisor of Obstetics id a forgery and the recorder's signature is a forgery and nattrally the footpront won't match Barack H. Obama's because it's a forgery from a Ken Doll. So this is why Mr. Obama and his crew blew a million bucks trying to hide...

Ooohh... No, please... Not Joe Biden. Team Obama sent out Big-Dog Joe Biden to Republican Whip Eric Cantor's district in Virginia to bash the Minority Whip for attacking Obama's Stimulus bomb. ...140 supporters showed up.

This just in from Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, a frequent purveyor of political anecdotes. She bring us an enlightening one here regarding the (quote) undisclosed location (unquote) we heard lots about in the days after Sept. 11. Here's Eleanor: Ever wonder about that secure, undisclosed location where Dick Cheney secreted himself after the 9/11 attacks? Joe Biden reveals the bunker-like room is at the Naval Observatory in Washington, where Cheney lived for eight years and which is now home to Biden. The veep related the story to his head-table dinner mates when he filled in for President Obama at the Gridiron...

Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.

In the past I have made quite clear my admiration for former Vice President Dick Cheney. So it will come as no surprise that I think his speech today at the American Enterprise Institute was pitch perfect. But I will say something stronger: I think that if somebody came to the subject fresh, with no preconceived notions, and watched (as so many of us did) President Barack Obama and Cheney back to back today, dueling across town, that open-minded person would believe that Cheney made a far stronger case. And oddly enough, Cheney's very lack of "style points" served only...

Zero Hedge is always happy to discover something rotten in the state of capital markets. We are even happier when others dig independently and come up with their own startling conclusions. Tonight - we are very happy. 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.

Yikes! What is the implication? He doesn't like being called Vice President or that he doesn't like being Vice President? Maybe he feels just like I do; I said the exact same thing when Obama announced Biden as his running mate last summer! My man Jake Tapper reports: At an event at Union Station today where Vice President Joe Biden was heralding the $1.3 billion in investments in rebuilding train stations and passenger rails, a microphone picked up one of the former senator's myriad Senate colleagues addressing him, formally, as "Mr. Vice President." That met with Vice President Biden's standard...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Vice President-elect Joe Biden let it slip that her husband had a pick of two jobs in the Obama administration.

Gov. Sarah Palin's home church has been badly damaged in a suspicious fire. Larry Kroon, pastor of the Wasilla Bible Church, estimates damages at more than $1 million to the church. Kroon declined to say if the blaze was politically based or directed at Palin, the failed Republican vice presidential candidate. Kroon says the fire broke out Friday night while a small group of women were working on crafts. They were alerted to the blaze by a fire alarm. Kroon says he was called and by the time he got to the church, smoke was pouring out of the building....

The chasm between those who want President-elect Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate to verify his eligibility to hold the nation's highest office and those who simply support the Democrat is widening. "The Constitution means what we today decide it means," opined one participant on a new WND forum that offers readers an opportunity to express their opinion on the birth certificate dispute.

Vice-president elect Joe Biden Fargo, North Dakota, Nov 22, 2008 / 02:14 pm (CNA).- Following the Fall meeting of the U.S. Catholic bishops in Baltimore, where they pledged not to yield ground to the incoming Obama administration on the issue of abortion, Bishop Samuel Aquila has revealed that vice president-elect Joe Biden is struggling with his conscience over his support for abortion.Bishop Michael Hoeppner of Crookston, Minnesota and Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo, North Dakota are just two of the bishops who have increased their efforts to speak more forcefully and clearly on the issue of abortion over the...

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama achieved a historic breakthrough with his election as America’s first black president. But his running mate made a little history too. After a campaign featuring much talk of “Joe Sixpack” and “Joe the Plumber,” the Democratic victory in Tuesday’s presidential election ensured America will have its first “Joe the Vice President." When Joe Biden is sworn in as the 47th vice president on Jan. 20, he will follow in the footsteps of five Johns, three Georges, three Thomases and three Charles (including two in a row) who occupied America’s second-highest office. Among other vice presidential first...

Sarah Palin's interview with Chris Plante will be aired at 9:25 a.m. this morning...

Network coverage of Palin has moved beyond criticism to outright ridicule. Strikingly, all three networks have repeatedly aired clips of Palin being parodied by a comedy show, NBC’s Saturday Night Live, leading to concerns that many Americans are confusing the real Palin with SNL’s figure of fun. When have comic impressions of a political figure ever qualified as hard news? CMI reviewed network news coverage of Palin for the two weeks beginning September 29 and ending October 12, the period before and after the October 2 vice-presidential debate. We found that ABC, NBC and CBS have been stridently critical of...

The familiar refrain of "Drill, baby, drill" has become a rallying cheer at all John McCain and Sarah Palin campaign events. It puts an exclamation mark on the GOP ticket's all-of-the-above energy policy. That policy calls for tapping all of America's bountiful energy resources, including renewables and other alternatives. When McCain and Palin make appearances in the coal belt of the eastern states, the mantra is expanded to include, "and mine, baby, mine." Due credit: The chorus of "Drill, baby, drill" was first heard at the GOP convention when former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele took his turn at the...

“Like the Republican candidate, I am a native of the American West who lives outside the continental 48. I drop my G’s. I can see my enemy from my front porch. I love the United States of America. I have a familiarity with and, I confess, a fondness for firearms. I believe in God. “So when Sarah Palin runs for president, as many pundits and, for that matter, plumbers, believe she someday will, I want to ask her a favor. “Speak to me. “I promise to listen.” This man speaks reality. Regardless of what the scores of liberal feeds tell...

Crowd Packs Stadium for Palin posted 5:34 pm Mon October 27, 2008 reporter: Matt Dreyer A record-breaking crowd is at Salem Stadium waiting to hear from Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. This is thought to be the largest crowd ever to gather at the stadium. Palin is scheduled to take the stage at about 6:45 for this rally in Battleground Virginia. They are getting anxious, plenty of anticipation as they await Sarah Palin's arrival. For Republicans in our area, this is their first chance to see someone from the presidential ticket, and it was an opportunity they would not...

About that $150,000 that the RNC spent for campaign appearances sake on Clan Palin... The liberals and their captive media outlets, MSDNC in particular, have been howling like lonesome coyotes over it. They don't seem to think that the $5 Million and change that was spent to move Barack Obama's acceptance speech from Denver's Pepsi Center to Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium is in any way as audacious as dropping a mere $150K on Gov. Palin and her family. Okay, we can play that game. Forget the Night of The Greek Columns. By the strangest of political coincidences, $150,000...

The Green County GOP has announced that because of overwhelming demand, the location of the Friday 11:00 a.m. Sarah Palin Road to Victory Rally in Springfield, MO has been moved from Missouri State University's McDonald Arena to the Bass Pro Shop Parking lot at 1935 S. Campbell (corner of Campbell and Sunshine). McDonald Arena only seats 4,000 people, and all of the available tickets were gone shortly after they were made available this morning at 9:00 a.m. Many who stood in long lines at GOP headquarters in both Green and Christian counties hoping to get tickets were not able to...

As the race in Missouri heats up and the polls tighten, Governor Sarah Palin is returning to Missouri on Friday for a Road to Victory Rally. Governor Palin will discuss John McCain's plans to strengthen the economy, protect America's workers and entrepreneurs and keep our nation secure by putting country first. The rally will be held at: McDonald Arena Missouri State University 850 S Kings Springfield MO 65804 Doors open for the event at 9 a.m. with the program beginning at 11 a.m. For additional information please call the McCain-Palin Hotline at 314-667-4728 or visit the Missouri page at www.johnmccain.com...

Sarah Palin is facing fresh allegations that she abused her power as governor of Alaska. An investigation has revealed she charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later changed expense reports to indicate that they were on official business. The charges, which totalled more than £10,000, included costs for hotel stays and commercial flights for three daughters to watch their father in a snowmobile race.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

VP candidate Palin introduces 'Ed the Dairyman' ROSWELL, N.M.—Joe the Plumber, meet Ed the Dairyman. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke to a crowd of about 10,000 supporters Sunday in a Roswell airplane hangar, not only making a reference to Joe the Plumber, but alluding several times to "Ed the Dairyman" after seeing someone in the crowd holding a sign identifying himself that way. She warned voters about Democratic plans to raise taxes "on America's hard-working families and our small businesses and a lot of folks just like Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairyman out there." Joe Wurzelbacher,...

At a fundraiser in North Carolina last night, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she sometimes gets "depressed" watching the media coverage of this race, and also suggested she didn't particularly want to discuss Joe the Plumber, unlike the man at the top of the ticket. Palin talked about "those times on the campaign trail when sometimes it’s easy to get a little bit discouraged, when, you know, when you happen to turn on the news when your campaign staffers will let you turn on the news. Usually they’re like, 'Oh, my gosh, don’t watch, you’re going to, you know, you’re...

ELON - Resplendent in GOP red heels, Sarah Palin toed the platform above home plate at Latham Park at Elon University and hammered home a low-taxes, small-government, pro-family, pro-America message to the delight of a large crowd. Palin, the first female GOP vice-presidential candidate, came to the university Thursday and touted her record and that of her presidential running mate, Arizona Sen. John McCain. She painted her opponents, Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as tax-happy and tainted by ties to a terrorist and voter fraud. Palin said Obama and Biden "think that government is the solution. "I disagree with...

Republican_vice-presidential_candidate Sarah Palin said Thursday that God blessed the country with oil and gas resources and other forms of energy that should be tapped to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign suppliers. The Alaska governor told supporters at Elon University that she and Republican presidential nominee John McCain will develop new energy sources. "God has so richly blessed this land, not just with the oil and the gas, but with wind and the hydro, the geothermal and the biomass," Palin said. "We’ll tap into those." Palin said some of the countries the U.S. relies on for energy use their resources "as...

Is Sarah Palin Qualified to be Vice President?

Playing the race card against Sarah Palin is just the kind of tactic you would expect from the nutroots Left, and just days after John McCain announced that Alaska's popular governor would be his running mate, the nutroots Left lowered itself to meet those expectations. LA Progressive, one of the more unhinged blogs in the Leftosphere, was quick to post a hit piece by Charley James. By way of hearsay from a waitress named "Lucille" who allegedly works in a restaurant which isn't named in an undisclosed location in Alaska, James tosses out a disgusting quote which he expects us...

Here is your chance to speak up for Sarah Palin - Takes 5 seconds. Let's turn this around!!! PBS has a short video on Sarah Palin on their website. Also included is a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP? I logged on a few minutes ago and 49% percent had voted YES, 49% NO. Let's turn this around..... You don't have to give your name or email address in order to vote. It's very simple. This is a liberal network with a liberal audience. Let's surprise them! Here's the link: PBS Sarah Palin Poll

Landing At Capacity As 5,000 Await Sarah Palin's Speech Police say the Jacksonville Landing reached capacity by 8:30 a.m. as at least 5,000 people wait for Republican running mate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to speak at a rally. More

At 8:34 a.m., the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said The Jacksonville Landing is at capacity for the visit by Gov. Sarah Palin and that no one else will be admitted to the venue for her campaign rally.

“Candygram for Sarah!” That supersized box of chocolates – oh, and roses, too? – in Governor Palin’s dressing room just arrived courtesy of Gwen Ifill. What book on Obama? Because the great whooshing sound you heard was the air being sucked out of any other issue in the presidential race by the supernova that is the GOP veep nominee. As the First Hockey Mom might have put it, didya notice the helpless grin that kept appearing on Joe Biden’s face? Hmmm. I’d seen that telltale look before. Oh, yeah. 1984. When Fritz Mondale was watching his presidential ambitions being knocked...

A gem of unfortunate truth seems to have permeated the Obama campaign: If a political candidate states a blatant lie with enough confidence, he will probably win over just enough people to accomplish his mission, if his mission is only winning an election. We have seen this theory applied repeatedly by The One Himself, and last Thursday, a record-breaking number of people saw his mentor do the same. Now if you think their goal should be to win the election and nothing else, then of course they are doing the right thing. It’s not like members of the mainstream media,...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin clearly and convincingly won last Thursday night's vice presidential forum with U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware. How do we know? Because the next morning most of the liberal talking heads were dismissing the event and, indeed, the vice presidency itself as of no consequence. Had Gov. Palin been anything less than stellar, these same windbags would be, as they were before the event, emphasizing how absolutely vital is the veep's role and how crucial it was for Palin to excel. The fact that she did excel is extraordinary, given the extremely immense pressure that she...

Here's the list as the McCain Camp put forth: Joe Biden's 14 Lies 1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY. 2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it. 3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping”...

TRANSCRIPT OF VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The vice presidential candidates, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are debating in St. Louis, Missouri, Thursday night. Gwen Ifill of PBS is the debate moderator. Here is a transcript of that debate, which is still going on: Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin debate the issues Thursday night. IFILL: Good evening from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. I'm Gwen Ifill of "The NewsHour" and "Washington Week" on PBS. Welcome to the first and the only 2008 vice presidential debate between the Republican nominee, Gov. Sarah...

The media elites of both the Left and the Right are trying so hard to define what Palin should say and do, and frankly it's insulting to the average voter. Joe and Jane America couldn't care less about what Palin reads, what Supremes ruling she dislikes the most or whether she's familiar with all eight permutations of the Bush Doctrine. What the average American wants to know from Sarah is what would she and John McCain do to make their lives better. What would they do about high gasoline prices? What would they do to make sure there's a supply...

 WATCH THE NEW AD HONORING SARAH PALIN - HEREBREAKING NEWS -- A new television spot honoring vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been released by the Our Country Deserves Better committee (website: www.OurCountryDeservesBetter.com) .  The ad will run in targeted key states, ahead of and during a national tour supporting the McCain/Palin ticket and opposing the Obama/Biden ticket.  The tour takes place October 15th - 29th, and more details are available online - here.Those who support Gov. Palin are asked to make a donation so the campaign can purchase as much airtime as possible for this ad.  If enough contributions are...

Since his vice presidential nomination, Joe Biden's 2007 statement that a "guy who allegedly ... drank his lunch" and drove the truck that struck and killed his first wife and daughter has gained national media traction. The senator's statements don't jibe with news and law enforcement reports from the time, which cleared driver Curtis C. Dunn, who died in 1999, of wrongdoing. "To see it coming from [Biden's] mouth, I just burst into tears," Dunn's daughter, Glasgow resident Pamela Hamill, 44, said Wednesday. "My dad was always there for us. Now we feel like we should be there for him...

Sarah (Heath) Palin's performance on flute in the 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant.

How can the moderator Gwen Ifill show up to a debate where she has a financial stake in the outcome? I think Hillary Clinton would be a fairer moderator.

September 29, 2008 Categories: Veep In re-introduction, Palin to do more interviews and "tell her story" Tacitly acknowledging criticism that she's been diminished in part by an overly protective media shield, Sarah Palin will take a more forward-leaning approach and do additional interviews in the weeks ahead, a top aide said today. "She's seen the reviews and heard the criticism, but she's a fighter," said this aide. "And now she's in a fighting mood." Palin heads to McCain's cabin in Arizona today to prepare for her Thursday debate, and while she's there she'll do a round of conservative talk radio...

The Left, including its mainstream-news sources, are alleging that Palin, as governor of Alaska, “slashed” funding for Special Olympics — as well as a myriad of other notable charitable causes — from the Alaska budget. The strategy is to frame Palin as a hypocrite, one who chose life for her own son, and claims to support government funding for special-needs programs, but as a state official worked to do just the opposite. As far as we can tell, the Special Olympics claim was first made in the September 6 edition of the bible of the Left, the New York Times,...

Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin has taken enough heat to melt the Artic Circle over this exchange with CBS' Katie Couric: Couric: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that? Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It's funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don't know, you know … reporters. Couric: Mocked? Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah....

<p>In an interview Wednesday with CNN, the first lady remarked that it's fortunate that Republican presidential nominee John McCain has foreign policy experience himself.</p> <p>Still, Mrs. Bush says she has a lot of confidence in Palin. She says the Alaska governor has a lot of good common sense, and the first lady adds that she is thrilled to have a chance to vote for Palin on the GOP ticket.</p>

ABC News' Russell Goldman Reports: Despite saying she would accept the offer to be vice president, Hillary Clinton never really wanted to be Barack Obama's running mate, her husband former President Bill Clinton told ABC's The View. "Not really, she didn't," Clinton said in response to a question from host Barbara Walters about whether Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. wanted to join her one-time opponent on the Democratic ticket. In June, soon after conceding the primary to Obama, Sen. Clinton told New York lawmakers that she would accept the veep slot if it was offered. "I'm open to it,' she told...

Now that the early hysteria has died down, the legacy media is moving into the second phase of their assault against Sarah Palin: sometimes regretful, but stern (often mocking) disapproval over her enormous and un-ignorable shortcomings. We'll know we've reached phase three -- "Palin's moment is over" when they dig up a few rogue "Republicans" to express "second thoughts".  According to Jon Friedman, the media is simply going to close their eyes to Palin until she goes away.) But none of it will stick any more the savage first-stage attacks stuck.  Palin will see it through because of her courage, her...