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Biden Exaggerates Aid to Israel

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely - Mar. 05 (Fact Check) - Vice President Joe Biden incorrectly told a pro-Israel group that President Obama’s $3.1 billion request for military aid to Israel last year was “the most in history.” The record was set in fiscal 2000, when the Clinton administration secured $3.12 billion for Israel — which is not only slightly more … More >>

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How the NRA Hobbled the ATF

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Alan Berlow - Feb. 11 (News) - Just a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama signed nearly two dozen executive actions and proposed a package of legislative initiatives that together represent the most comprehensive effort in decades to reduce what he called "the broader epidemic of gun violence in this country." Conspicuously absent from the president's agenda, however, is much of anything that might address the stunning and widespread weaknesses that have for years crippled the federal agency responsible for enforcing the nation's gun laws—the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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Biden Wrong on Police Deaths

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Lori Robertson - Jan. 31 (Fact Check) - In an online interview promoted by the White House, Vice President Joe Biden made the false claim that “there were fewer police being murdered … when the assault weapons ban, in fact, was in existence.” But the FBI statistics on killings of law enforcement officers show no such trend. In … More >>

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Obama Moves Climate Change to the Forefront in His Second Inagural Address

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Suzanne Goldenberg - Jan. 23 (News Analysis) - Barack Obama said more about climate change in his inauguration speech — and expressed it more forcefully — than he did at any point in the 2012 election campaign and during much of his first term.

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Women Are The Key To The Presidential Debate And Election

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 13 (News) - Well before the vice-presidential debate began, even the president had agreed that he had failed to expose Mitt Romney’s lies and had allowed his opponent to present himself as a supporter of universal health insurance, Social Security and Medicare, none

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Veep Debate Violations

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson - Oct. 12 (Fact Check) - The Biden-Ryan debate was marked by some spirited claims that didn’t always match the facts.

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Fact-checking the vice presidential debate

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - Oct. 11 (Fact Check) - The vice presidential debate Thursday night began on a somber note, then quickly turned to lively attacks — with both candidates stretching the truth.

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Biden’s replacement in the Senate

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

3BlueDudes - Nov. 24 (News Report) - The Hill reports that the replacement for Vice President-elect Joe Biden in the Senate will be Ted Kaufman, a long-time assistant to Senator Biden.

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Joe Biden talks economy, Iraq war at UF

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Independent Florida Alligator - By Lauren Baker - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Not all Republicans were there to protest. “I wanted to see the next vice president of the United States,” said Josh Simmons, Gators for McCain chairman. Simmons said he voted for Obama about two weeks ago. “I’ve seen a different John McCain than the one I signed up to work for,” he said. Simmons said he submitted his resignation Sunday night and will no longer be chairman for the group, which has more than 1,000 members. “I expect them to be incredibly pissed off,” he said.

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Constitutional Minutia: The Vice Presidency

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

TalkLeft - By Big Tent Democrat - Oct. 05 (News Analysis) - I submit that of the 3 people on the stage that night, Palin was the one who got it right on that question. Ifill had no idea what the issue was about and Biden was the one who got it just plain wrong. It is ridiculous that the Left and the Left allies in the Media tried to use this episode to attack Palin. For it was the Media and the Democratic candidate who embarrassed themselves in this episode, not Sarah Palin.

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FactChecking Biden-Palin Debate

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson, Viveca Novak, Lori Robertson, Joe Miller, Jessica Henig, Justin Bank - Oct. 03 (Special Report) - * Palin mistakenly claimed that troop levels in Iraq had returned to “pre-surge” levels. Levels are gradually coming down but current plans would have levels higher than pre-surge numbers through early next year, at least. * Biden incorrectly said “John McCain voted the exact same way” as Obama on a controversial troop funding bill. The two were actually on opposite sides

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Final: 69,989,000 viewers -- Palin-Biden the most-watched vp debate ever--The Live Feed

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

thrfeed.com - By James Hibbard - Oct. 03 (News Analysis) - Last night's event was seen by nearly 70 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. That's the most-viewed debate -- presidential or vp -- since at least the second round between Bill Clinton, Ross Perot and George Bush in 1992.

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3BD's The Daily Political Munch (9/24)

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

3BlueDudes - Sep. 24 (News Analysis) - What would a news roundup be without a McCain lie? Answer -- Non-Existent! So, let's start it out. NY Times reports this morning that John McCain has of course lied about his campaign manager's involvement as a paid lobbyist to none other than Fannie Mae.

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269-269: The Nightmare Scenario

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

3BlueDudes - Sep. 22 (News Analysis) - http://3bluedudes.com/?p=576

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Only as a last resort

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - Sep. 03 (News Analysis) - John McCain's campaign readily acknowledges Joe Biden's expertise in national security matters. But that isn't stopping McCain surrogates from questioning the Democratic vice presidential nominee's judgment, especially when it comes to Iraq policy.

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Media Cheer Biden Choice

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

FAIR - Aug. 28 (News Analysis) - Most of the corporate media cheered Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, seeing the move as a signal that their well-circulated criticisms of Obama were on point.

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We should all be so poor

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - Aug. 28 (News Analysis) - Wealth has taken a beating in this presidential campaign as John McCain tries to paint Barack Obama as an elitist and Obama fires back that McCain is so rich he can't keep track of how many houses he owns.

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The Speedy Biden News Cycle

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Megan Garber - Aug. 26 (News Analysis) - the backlash, I'd argue, may have to do with the particulars of the announcement of his selection: the hype-building delay, the ample time given for reporters to analyze the merits of other candidates, the semi-letdown of learning that the Guy Everyone Thought Would Be the Nominee was, in fact, the nominee.

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Battleground Polling

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

3BlueDudes - Aug. 26 (Poll) - Quinnipiac Polling have released a new set of numbers for what the deem to be thee big battlegrounds: Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Let me spin off a moment on that issue. I simply do not see Pennsylvania as a battleground as some do.

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Rhetorical Question

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Michael Crowley - Aug. 23 (News Analysis) - It's a bright early October morning on Capitol Hill. Joe Biden is bounding up the steps of the Russell Senate Office Building, wearing his trademark grin. As he makes for the door, he is met by a group of airline pilots and flight attendants looking vaguely heroic in their navy-blue uniforms and wing-shaped pins. A blandly handsome man in a pilot's cap steps forward and asks Biden to help pass emergency benefits for laid-off airline workers. Biden nods as the men and women cluster around him with fawning smiles. Then he speaks. "I hope you will support my work on Amtrak as much as I have supported you," he begins. (Biden rides Amtrak to work every day and is obsessed with the railroad.) "If not, I will screw you badly." A dozen faces fall in unison as Biden lectures on. "You've not been good to me. You're also damn selfish. You better listen to me..." It goes on like this for a couple of minutes. Strangely, Biden keeps grinning--even fraternally slapping the stunned man's shoulder a couple of times. When we finally head into the building, Biden's communications director, Norm Kurz, turns to me. "What you just witnessed is classic Senator Biden."

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The Vice Presidential Debate: CQ Politics’ Bests and Mosts

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Congressional Quarterly - By Jonathan Allen - Jan. 03 (News Analysis) - Biden, the Delaware senator running with Obama, and Palin, the Alaska governor paired with McCain, kept a fast pace with plenty of punching and counterpunching during the only vice presidential debate, held Thursday night at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Joe Biden lets it all hang out

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:43:42 -0700

Salon - By Walter Shapiro - Jul. 06 (Special Report) - Biden simply asked, "How many of you think that the majority of the people in Iowa have firmly made up their mind about how they will vote in the caucuses?" Not a single hand was raised, demonstrating that most Iowans recognize how shallow are the sentiments reflected in the polls.

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