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......................*at end of article*** Leno pulled up a photo of Anna Chapman, the secret agent whose photo has been circulated because of her movie star looks. "Let me make it clear," Biden said. "It wasn't my idea to send her back." He added, "I thought maybe they'd take Rush Limbaugh."

Vice President Joe Biden (half-)joked to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show this evening that he wanted to include conservative talk radio king Rush Limbaugh as part of the spy swap that took place earlier today with Russia.The Obama administration has targeted Limbaugh as an enemy of the regime since it came to power in January 2009.The Associated Press reported on Biden's appearance on the Tonight Show:Leno then showed a sultry photo of alleged Russian agent Anna Chapman and asked: "Are our spies this hot?" Biden's reply, in a mock-serious tone: "Let me be clear. It was not my idea...

Vice-President Joe Biden at Kopp’s Frozen Custard in the Milwaukee area, where he was appearing with Democrat Sen. Russ Feingold. The two were eating custard there, and when Biden approached the manager with some money and asked, “What do I owe you,” the manager just responded, “Lower our taxes and we’ll call it even.”Biden later jokingly called the manager a “smart-ass,” telling him, “Why don’t you say something nice?”Biden was clearly not expecting that! Great response!

Vice President Joe Biden gave a stark assessment of the economy today, telling an audience of supporters, "there's no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession." Appearing at a fundraiser with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) in Milwaukee, the vice president remarked that by the time he and President Obama took office in 2008, the gross domestic product had shrunk and hundreds of thousands of jobs had been lost. "We inherited a godawful mess," he said, adding there was "no way to regenerate $3 trillion that was lost. Not misplaced, lost."