Official portrait of Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Posted on 07/21/2014 2:37:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The New Yorker's Evan Osnos has been working on a profile about Vice President Biden for months, and it finally published this week -- with a big focus on the vice president's role in the Ukraine crisis. Osnos conducted many interviews with Biden -- and even talked to President Obama. You should read the whole thing -- especially since the New Yorker archives are now open for browsing this summer -- but here's a look at some of the most interesting tidbits.
As the wars in the Middle East have ended, Biden has shifted to smaller foreign policy priorities, although his relationships in Ukraine have also proved invaluable. Osnos sums up his foreign policy role now as "big assignments that may not have a huge political upside" especially for someone who may be eying another presidential bid.
Obama adds, “You know, when I sent him to Ukraine for the recent inauguration of Poroshenko, and he’s there, a world figure that people know, and he’s signifying the importance that we place on the Ukrainian election,” Obama went on. “And then world leaders can transmit directly to him their thoughts about how we proceed. That’s not necessarily helping him in Iowa. ”
However, his political schmoozing skills have proved invaluable in international affairs throughout his career -- and continue to come in handy. Osnos writes, "After so many years, he has an arsenal of opening lines that he can deploy in Baghdad, Beijing, or Wilmington
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Come on, you can't tell me this isn't satire. Seriously?
Barry needs to vaca in Mosul for a few rounds of “Golf”.
this is a “ Big Effin Deal”
I hope he becomes President in 2015 ;)
Official portrait of Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Biden / Cochran 2016!
Woo-Hoo!
No kidding there.
Joe is a geek! He should be biting the heads off chickens in a carny sideshow somewhere.
Really? Why can’t he have as good a chance as anyone else?
He’ll do everything Obozo does: keep up with the EBT cards, lousy foreign policy, keep us on Obozocare, let illegals in by the score, etc.
Worked for Obozo...why not Biden?
Joe Biden is one of the worst pols for squeezing every last penny he can out of taxpayers for lavish living for himself and his extended family. His looting of the public treasury would make an African dictator blush.
Joe Biden is the drunk uncle you put out on the front porch!!
Heeeee Haaawww!!!
And to make this moron president look smarter.
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