At 12:47 a.m. Pacific Time Aug. 23, 2008, Barack Obama announced that Joe Biden would be his running mate with a text message that said: "Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.BarackObama.com. Spread the word!"
This election year the choice is clear… One man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need… “Barack America!”
Senator Joe Biden Obama-Biden Rally Springfield, Illinois August 23, 2008
The One is ready to lead… Well, at least Joe Biden thinks so: (18 seconds)
Senator Joe Biden in Springfield, Illinois:
This election year the choice is clear. One man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need. A man I’m proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next president of...Read Full Story
Our economy is in a huge mess. Wages are Stagnant as Prices Rise: While wages remain flat, the costs of basic necessities are increasing. The cost of in-state college tuition has grown 35 percent over the past five years. Health care costs have risen four times faster than wages over the past six years. And the personal savings rate is now the lowest it's been since the Great Depression. And it was exacerbated bv a "spread it to the wealthy scheme" also known as the Bush tax cuts which gave...Read Full Story
NEIL KINNOCK at Welsh Labour Party conference May 1987:
"Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand"
JOE BIDEN IN Sept 1987 during his first presidential campaign:
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A memoir by Senator Joe Biden, once as forgotten as his presidential run, is now a best seller. A day after Senator Barack Obama chose Biden as his running mate for the Democratic ticket, Biden’s “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics” was in the top 10 on Barnes & Noble.com and in the top 40 on Amazon.com.
It was so in demand that today it was listed as out of stock by both booksellers. The Random House Publishing Group released the memoir in the summer of 2007, several months after Biden...Read Full Story
Reidar Visser is research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs with a background in history and comparative politics (University of Bergen) and a doctorate in Middle Eastern studies (University of Oxford). He's the author of Basra, the Failed Gulf State: Separatism and Nationalism in Southern Iraq (Lit Verlag, 2006) and co-editor of An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? (Columbia University Press, 2007). The following commentary was originally...Read Full Story
2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- EIN News has announced the launch of Xi Jinping News Today, a media monitoring website that covers all details of the Chinese vice president's visit to the United States. - All Xi Jinping News Topics - http://xijinping ...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Commerce Secretary John Bryson and U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke also sat in on the meeting. President Obama later sat down with Xi in the Oval ...
CAMBRIDGE, Md. — When House Democrats last huddled at a sprawling bayside resort here on the Eastern Shore one year ago, lawmakers were publicly optimistic — but privately divided.
They had just weathered a historic shellacking in the November 2010 midterms, a 63-seat loss that left members examining where their party went wrong.
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President Obama and Vice President Biden on Friday worked to rally congressional Democrats preparing to do battle with Republicans leading into the 2012 election. In remarks at the annual House Democratic retreat near the shore of the Chesapeake ...
The president’s energy agenda took a hit on Thursday, as yet another stimulus-backed energy company filed for bankruptcy. Videos have surfaced since then showing both Obama and Vice President Biden praising the company’s promise, drawing the ...
MISUSE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, CONSPIRACY, MISPRISION OF FELONY? by Sharon Rondeau Can the U.S. Department of Justice fail to prosecute federal law-breakers? (Jan. 23, 2012) Numerous graphics, typesetting, Adobe® and scanning professionals have claimed that the long-form birth certificate image bearing the alleged details of Barack Hussein Obama IIs birth presented to the public on April 27, 2012 is a forgery. If that is the case, which...
Blending solemn tradition with joyous reunion, the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq returned home to U.S. soil Tuesday, greeted by his wife and his president in an understated ceremony to mark the end of the nine-year conflict.
Barack Obama came into office facing the worst economic crisis the ... the raising of hands after the President's acceptance speech, would be Michelle, the President, Hillary and Bill." I for one want to see the president win reelection with Joe Biden ...
President Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden will each hold a virtual huddle with grassroots supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire on the states’ respective caucus and primary nights next month, campaign officials say. On Jan. 3, Obama will deliver remarks and take questions live-streamed...
There’s a reason Vice President Biden might have looked a little dazed during Tuesday’s State of the Union address — you try sitting through a Read more...
Obama would be more comfortable with people who he like not someone trying to steal the presidential nomination from him. Rahni, Connecticut. OBAMA/BIDEN 2008
Are you kidding me? Is this the fourth installment of the “Back to the Future” movie franchise? How did Joe Biden get into the picture to be tapped by Barack Obama for V.P.? Over the last forty-ei
An Obama/Biden 2008 Democratic Presidential ticket would be unstoppable in the general election and would make the United States the most respected, most progressive, and greatest ...
Many people had a hard time choosing between her and Obama. I wanted to vote for both of them and I guess I will now get that chance ironically. OBAMA/BIDEN 2008!