joe biden

Joseph (Joe) Biden Jr became the 47th Vice President of The United States on January 20th 2009, as part of the administration of President Obama. He is the first Roman Catholic and the first Delawarean to hold this office.

Long standing as a Senator from Delaware (From 1973 to the point he stepped down to take the Vice Presidency in 2009), Biden's noted accomplishments include his service on the Senate Foreign Relations Commitee and his work on the Senate Judiciary Committee dealing with various legal issues involving drug policy, civil liberties and crime prevention.

Joe Biden also notably took part in the most highly viewed VP debate ever on October 2nd 2008, as he verbally jousted with Sarah Palin over campaign issues.

For the blogosphere's take on Joe Biden, be sure to check out the musings of Satirical Political and Bartcop.

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• Memo to Joe Biden: You lost on gun control. Move on.

  
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  After the shocking and senseless shootings and murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut late last year, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden felt sure they finally had a strong emotional issue to use to ram through stronger gun control laws in America. Wrong. Their misplaced ...
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• Why Joe Biden is talking about guns

  
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  Vice President Biden will deliver remarks about guns Tuesday afternoon, an issue that was shelved in the Senate in April after advocates of tighter restrictions suffered a major setback when their proposed measures failed to win passage. Read full article >>        
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• Why Joe Biden is talking about guns

  
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  Vice President Biden will deliver remarks about guns Tuesday afternoon, an issue that was shelved in the Senate in April after advocates of tighter restrictions suffered a major setback when their proposed measures failed to win passage. So why is Biden … Continue reading →        
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• Biden Aims to Revive Push to Curb Gun Violence

  
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  Vice President Joe Biden will try to revive the administration’s gun-control efforts with a speech Tuesday at the White House.
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• Biden to tout administration success on gun violence

  
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  (CNN) – Weeks after the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, last December, President Barack Obama issued 23 directives aimed at curbing the threat of gun violence. At an event on Tuesday in Washington, Vice President Joe Biden will unveil a progress report that the administration says shows it is on its way to ...
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• The Unwinding by George Packer, review

  
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  Melanie McGrath is impressed by George Packers angry, wise and moving state-of-the-union address.        
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• For VP Joe Biden, Sen. Ted Cruz is the top boogeyman

  
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  … Vice President Joe Biden administers the Senate Oath at a mock swearing-in for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, accompanied by his wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, and their daughters Caroline and Catherine, right. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) visit site to read more ]
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• Queer Talk: Taking Pride and Pressing for ENDA (Video)

  
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  The month of Pride festivals and parades and more is well underway, and this year in addition to a focus on the soon to be released SCOTUS decisions regarding marriage equality, a big part of taking Pride is pressing for the passage of ENDA, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, and on the executive order candidate ...
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• Joe Biden Slammed NSA Surveillance in 2006

  
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  We’ve already covered the conflicting statements that Barack Obama has made concerning government surveillance . As a United States Senator and presidential candidate, Obama said that the Bush Administration “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and security we provide.” He made a ...
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• Video- President Obama and VP Biden Celebrate LGBT Pride Month Reception at the White House

  
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• Making America A Little More Equal

  
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  Leaders within the LGBT community were invited to the White House yesterday to kick-off Pride month with a reception hosted by President Obama. Introducing the President were 9 year old twins, Zea and Luna, who wrote a letter to President Obama earlier this year asking him to support same-sex marriage. They explained ...
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• "I don’t have to listen to your phone calls to know what you’re doing. If I know every..."

  
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  “I don’t have to listen to your phone calls to know what you’re doing. If I know every single phone call you made, I’m able to determine every single person you talked to. I can get a pattern about your life that is very, very intrusive… . If it’s true that 200 million Americans’ phone calls were ...
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• Biden Tapped for Fundraisers Four of Five Days This Week

  
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  Some 17 months before Election Day 2014, Vice President Biden is on his way to becoming a full time fundraiser for the Democratic Party, having been scheduled to host events four out of five days this week. Biden’s new full time occupation is part of what has become an take-no-prisoners White House campaign to ...
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• Biden Tapped for Fundraisers Four of Five Days This Week

  
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  Some 17 months before Election Day 2014, Vice President Biden is on his way to becoming a full time fundraiser for the Democratic Party, having been scheduled to host events four out of five days this week. Biden’s new full time occupation is part of what has become an... -
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• FLASHBACK: Joe Biden Says Don’t Trust A President Who Spies On Americans

  
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  On Special Report with Bret Baier, a video of Joe Biden from May 12, 2006 was discussed. In this video, Biden told us to not trust a president who spies.
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• Al Gore: Joe Biden Says He Was Elected President, Gore Calls Koch Brothers ‘Dirtiest’

  
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  Al Gore was elected president, according to Vice-President Joe Biden in a comment Tuesday that’s still making some waves. Meanwhile, Al Gore himself has gone on another attack against the Koch Brothers, who the former Bill Clinton second-in-command has accused of being “purveyors of the dirtiest energy on ...
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• Rex Returns

  
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  Well, to video.  The schools have stolen my best talent.  But, good news, Summer is upon us.  Vivien is almost out, but my former sidekick  my son is done with his first full year of fulltime preschool and he is … Continue reading → The post Rex Returns appeared first on Cool Mom - Funny videos on ...
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• Stephen Colbert: NSA Domestic Surveillance “Proves Obama Is A Tyrannical Despot Who Ignores All The Rules”

  
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  Satirically delicious: “Yes, the National Security Administration is spying on our phone calls, and unlike during the Bush administration, this time it’s the Obama administration. Yeah, this guy, he is always trying to outdo his predecessor. ‘Oh, he poured water on their face? I’m going to blow ’em up! ...
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• Joe Biden Knocks Ted Cruz, Rand Paul During Fundraiser for Democratic Candidate

  
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  During a fundraiser for Ed Markey, a Democratic running for the vacant Senate in Massachusetts, Vice President Joe Biden attacked Senate Republicans for the sway over legislation that Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) hold in their caucus : At a high-dollar fundraiser [Tuesday] night in Washington, D.C., ...
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• Biden Flashback: We should Not collect data on Citizens Phone Calls

  
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  Senator Biden in 2006: We should not collect data on Citizens Phone Calls -  Could we have one reporter covering the Vice-President to remind Biden of flip-flop on monitoring and storing metadata on Citizens phone calls? In the wake of revelations that the Obama administration is tracking virtually every single ...
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