[Joe Biden]'s strengths extend beyond the campaign trail. Dick Cheney is hardly a name to conjure with in Democratic circles. But Biden brings some of the same qualities to the Democratic ticket that Cheney brought to the Republican one in 2000. Biden's biggest problem, however, is that he is not Hillary Clinton. Clinton won 18 million votes in the Democratic primary; Biden dropped out after coming fifth in the Iowa caucuses. [Barack Obama]'s advisers have whispered that the reason Clinton was not considered for the vice-presidency is that she is a Washington insider who voted in favour of the Iraq war. But Biden is also a Washington insider who voted in favour of the Iraq war.
Joe Biden's vehicle was not involved in the crash and he arrived at his destination safely, RCMP officials said in a news release. The vice-president was in British Columbia to watch U.S. athletes compete in the 2010 Olympics. Heavy rains have washed away so much snow at Cypress Mountain in the last few days that Vancouver Olympic organizing officials were forced to refund general admission tickets for the men's and women's snowboardcross. There are eight more events to be held at Cypress Mountain, including men's halfpipe on Wednesday and women's halfpipe on Thursday. Dave Cobb, the organizing committee's deputy CEO and executive vice-president said organizers would wait before announcing any further cancellations.
Given the past week, the debate should have been a cinch for [Obama]. But, just as in the primaries, he wilfully refuses to accept what debates are about. It's not a lecture hall; it's a joust. It's not how cerebral you are. It's how visceral you are. You need memorable, sharp, forceful and witty lines. Even when [John McCain] sneered, "I don't need any on-the-job training, I'm ready to go at it right now," Obama didn't directly respond, but veered off into a story about his father being from Kenya and how he got his name. (Thanks, Barack, we got that from your book. It's great for a memoir, but not a debate.) Obama did a poor job of getting under McCain's skin. Or maybe McCain did an exceptional job of not letting Obama get under his skin. McCain nattered about earmarks and Obama ran o...
Barack Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware late Friday night to be his vice presidential running mate, according to a Democratic official, balancing his ticket with an older congressional veteran well-versed in foreign and defence issues. Several aides to former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton -- who was Obama's closest rival for the presidential nomination -- said they believed she also was out of contention. They added the Obama campaign had never requested financial or other records from her.
If we take time off from being vigilant," [McEntee] warns, "we'll have President Newt Gingrich, Vice-President Rush Limbaugh, and Secretary of State Sarah Palin, watching Russia from her porch! "When I was growing up in Claymont, Del.," he recounts for the eight millionth time, "My father was absolutely certain -- absolutely certain -- when he told us that if we work hard, play by the rules and love our country, there's not a single thing we couldn't do." "Right now," [Carol Low] says, "with the work he's doing for the middle-class people, he's for us and not against us."
Rae illustrated his accusation with side-by-side video clips of Howard's speech to the Australian Parliament two days before Harper spoke in the House, on the day the Americans began their shock-and-awe bombing of Baghdad in March 2003. When Joe Biden first sought the Democratic nomination in the U.S.in 1988, his campaign came to grief when it developed he had borrowed a speech from the leader of a British political party.
[Paul Soubry] said he came away from the day "very inspired" by the man who is one heartbeat away from the U.S. presidency. Soubry said New Flyer's chairman, Brian Tobin, a former senior minister in Jean Chretien's Liberal government and a former premier of Newfoundland, was a big help to the management team in dealing with the protocol and how to interpret the communications and issues of the day's activities. Soubry said the past few days have been a whirlwind of "did that just happen?" moments. For example, during the company's board meeting on Wednesday afternoon, New Flyer's executive secretary walked into the room and said, "I'm sorry to interrupt, but the White House wants to talk to you.
Appearing on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" late Wednesday, [Joe Biden] said: "Look, the other part of this thing that got me in trouble is using the word clean. I should have said fresh. What I meant was that he's got new ideas, he's a new guy on the block ...
Before a vast crowd spilling out from the front of the Old State Capitol, [Barack Obama] said [Joe Biden] was "what many others pretend to be -- a statesman with sound judgment who doesn't have to hide behind bluster to keep America strong. Democrats coalesced quickly around the 47-year-old Obama's selection of the veteran of three decades in the Senate -- a choice meant to provide foreign-policy heft to the party's ticket for the fall campaign against [John McCain] and the Republicans. Biden emerged as Obama's choice after a secretive selection process that included at least a half-dozen contenders -- but evidently not Hillary Clinton, the former first lady who was Obama's tenacious rival across the primaries and caucuses of winter and spring.
In choosing Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has attempted to address the perceived deficits and vulnerabilities in his own candidacy. If Mr. Obama lacks experience, fear not because Mr. Biden has been a Washington insider since 1973. If the candidate of change seems like a rootless non-American (and a Muslim, according to 12 per cent of uninformed Americans), well, Mr. Biden is as American as apple pie, and a Catholic to boot. Absolutely no one thinks he's a Muslim.
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