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President Biden told reporters Tuesday that he’s heading up to New York City and “doing 9/11” in a gaffe that was ruthlessly mocked by social media users. The 81-year-old president, who was forced to end his re-election bid in July over mounting questions about his mental acuity, made the verbal blunder as he previewed his near-term travel plans. “I’m going up to my granddaughter’s birthday in New York,” Biden said on the White House lawn as he prepared to board his Marine One helicopter. “Then we’re going to watch the debate and tomorrow I’m doing 9/11,” the president added, with...

Vice President Biden will meet Wednesday with Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to discuss the situation in Iraq. McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Graham will meet with Biden at his home, the Naval Observatory, on Wednesday afternoon. On the agenda is Iraq, according to a White House official. McCain and Graham, who are often frequent travel partners (sometimes with Sen. Joe Lieberman [I-Conn.] in tow), traveled to the country earlier in May.

RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites, yesterday CNN Late Edition, Wolf Blitzer had this exchange with Barack Obama advisor Anita Dunn.   BLITZER:  I'm going to play a little clip, Anita.  I want you to you listen to what Rush Limbaugh said on Wednesday before we knew that Joe Biden was, in fact, the running mate.  Listen to what Rush Limbaugh said.   RUSH:  I really hope it's Biden.  We don't want to say that too loud, but I really do hope that it's Joe Biden 'cause we've got a mountain of archival audio on Joe Biden.  ...

I guess we really should be celebrating Barack Obama’s pick of Joe Biden for VP. It was a not-too-bright decision on his part, but hey, it works for me. The Obamamessiah and Mr. Gaffetastic will give us lots of fun soundbites over the next few months. I mean, come on — Obama already introduced Biden as “the next President - Vice President - of the United States… “. But hey, today we’re going to have fun with Joe Biden instead. Check out this video where Biden was talking about AIDS: I think the money shot was the look on Al...

After the Barack Obama campaign announced early Saturday morning that Delaware senator Joseph Biden would fill out the Democratic presidential ticket, an army of merry rightwing photoshoppers went to work. One well-circulated manipulation of an Obama campaign graphic placed the two pols, both with broad smiles, in front of a cut-and-paste crowd. The headline: "Joe Biden: Old. White. Boring."