Baby Pete Wentz Meeting Joe Biden
When emo rocker Pete Wentz was just a toddler he met current Vice President elect Joe Biden. Wentz met Biden when his mom was working as a legislative assistant in Washington D.C. back in the early 80’s.
Is it just me or does Joe Biden have more hair now than he did back then? I knew he was botoxing it up for the campaign, but hairplugs too?
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Vice President elect Joe Biden was booed Sunday night at the Philadelphia Eagles game against the New York Giants game by the Philly fans.
The Giants and Eagles played in front of a special guest. Vice President-elect Joe Biden watched the game in a luxury suite with Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie. Biden was booed when he was showed on the video screen.
I guess the “racist” and “redneck” fans from Pennsylvania have already had enough of ‘Joe Gaffe.’ At least Biden was getting some good practice at what he will be doing for the next four years, sporting events and funerals.
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Joe ‘Gaffe’ Biden clearly shows all of America that counting to four can sometimes be more difficult than it seems. Biden refers to Barack’s three letter word as J-O-B-S. Check out the video above for a good laugh. Can you imagine if Sarah Palin would have done this and the hammer the MSM would have slammed down on her?
Sphere: Related ContentLive Blogging VP Debate: Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden
Live Blogging of tonight’s Vice Presidential debate between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin from St. Louis, Missouri. The debate is being moderated by PBS host Gwen Ifill.
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10:35pm - Both candidates seemed overall to do a great job and get in points at each times. I think Palin won the debate and that might be in part that expectations were so low for her coming in. Joe came across as a politican. Sarah came across as someone learning and challenging. I think she won for the same reason most people said Barack won last week….that being they are the new kid on the block. She more than held her own. Biden is hard to dislike. If he was my uncle I would mow his yard for free and let him tell me stories about growing up in Scranton.
10:32pm - Gwen closes the debate and it’s over. Joe and Sarah shake hands and Joe looks like he tries to feel her up. The open mic leaves Gwen heaping praise on Biden. She nearly jumped out of her seat onto her broke ankle. The open mic couldn’t catch what she and Palin said to each other…but it did catch Palin thanking her.
10:29pm - Closing Statements: Palin starts by saying she wishes she had more debates and didn’t have the mainstream media filtering and changing what she says. She like the opportunity to talk directly to the American people. Biden starts by reaching back and bringing up Bush and the past eight years and a need for fundamental change. It is about the 10th time he has said “fundamental.” He also brings up the neighborhood he grew up in again!! Joe closes in blessing us all and our troops. Amen!!
10:26pm - Joe says fundamental change is not questioning other people’s motive. Palin says you do what she did and appoint people of both parties to your administration.
10:24pm - I didn’t understand the question but it was something about what is something that has changed in your political policy. Biden mentions the appointment of judges. Palin mentions “quasi-caving” on a couple of budgets.
10:20pm - 10 minutes to go! And its a good thing because Palin and Biden are starting to cause server problems for PK.
10:14pm - The question asks Biden about him saying he didn’t want the job of Vice President and Palin about saying she didn’t know what the job entailed before she was nominated in the spring. She says she was kidding and assumes Joe was too. She says she will work on energy and towards children and special needs. Biden says he would be Obama’s point person in dealing with the legislature. Biden says he will be in the room for every decision Obama makes. We will see about that Joe. I think Barack might banish you to the VP house.
10:11pm - Palin is pretty personable whether you like her or want to kill her. She gives shouts out to her family of teachers. And to her brother, who is a teacher, and tells the kids from his class watching that they get extra credit for watching.
10:08pm - How would Biden admin. be different from Obama tragedy? Biden says he would carry out Obama’s policies and make sure everyone gets a fair break. I think this is a sly attempt by moderator Gwen Ifill to put the thought in viewers minds about McCain dying early and Palin taking over. Palin says she won’t agree 100% with McCain but as a team of Mavericks things would keep on for the most part if she became President. She says she would continue the good work of JM and put government back on the side of the people.
10:06pm - Genocide in Darfur? Biden goes back into Iraq and tying McCain to Dick Cheney. I am not sure he is connecting. Maybe he is. Palin responds again that she watched the debates and Biden’s opposition to Obama.
10:05pm - 25 minutes to go! Oh wait Palin is speaking. Let me see if my southern upbringing can help me interpret.
10:03pm - I think Biden is tuning people out. I really can’t remember the last time Palin spoke or the last thing Biden said (and he is speaking).
10:01pm - I think Biden got about .10mm too much of botox in his forehead tonight. Does anyone else notice that? It is smoother than a baby’s butt until it meets his hairline on the sides where it wrinkles up in a weird way.
10:00pm - 30 minutes to go…who is winning? I think both are in different ways!
9:56pm - Nuclear Weapons? Palin says it will be the end-all and kill way too many people for it to be in the hands of evil people. She brings up Afghanistan and using a surge like strategy there. Biden responds surge won’t work according to generals and that the infrastructure must be build up. Biden seems to know John McCain’s record better than his own.
9:51pm - I am bored! The question is about Israel and Palestine. Palin says she will support Israel on a two-state solution. Biden attacks Bush and the administration for the current situation in Israel. Biden says he will change the policy and back Israel and let them negotiate with them. Palin is snippy and hits Biden across his botoxed forehead about looking backwards and pointing fingers at the Bush administration.
9:45pm - Greatest Threat: Nuclear Iraq or Unstable Iran? Biden says both are a grave concern. He goes on to say Iran is not close to getting a nuclear weapon. Biden has rambled on so far on his answer that I lost the main point of what he was saying. Palin says both are dangerous as well. She then says the central front on terror is in Iraq per al Quada and Peatrus. Palin is a bit too mechanical and quotes McCain several times from last weeks debate about preconditions and Iran.
9:40pm - Withdrawal from Iraq? Palin calls out Barack for not funding and supporting the troops. She then uses Biden’s words againt Obama where Biden called Obama out on it during the democratic primaries. Biden promises to end this war. Palin calls Biden out again for saying “Obama wasn’t ready to be commander in chief.” She also reminds Biden that he said he would love running with John McCain before he got the VP nomination.
9:36pm - Same sex benefits to couples? Biden says absolutely! Palin says she is fine with it as well as long as it doesn’t grow to infringe upon the traditional definition of marriage. Palin agrees with Biden but says she doesn’t support gay marriage. Biden responds that him and Obama don’t support gay marriage.
9:30pm - Climate change? Palin is struggling hard with this answer. She used about 13 big words too many in a row. She goes on to say reduce emissions and that she was first state to put committee together to address climate change. She uses the question to slip back into energy and an ‘all of the above’ solution. Biden responds that the climate change is completely due to man made causes. She calls Biden on not supporting clean coal technology.
9:27pm - Biden brings up again that Obama was warning of subprime lending crisis two years ago. He goes on to claim McCain was clueless. Biden seems to be making up a good number of facts. Palin responds in 3 seconds that she disagrees and uses the remainder of her time to talk about energy and how they differe from Obama/Biden on energy. Palin is using tonight to say whatever the hell she wants to the shagrin of Gwen.
9:25pm - I am starting to have a hard time keeping up. It will be interesting to see the fact check on both candidates tonight.
9:22pm - Biden is now saying they will cut wasteful spending, stealing one of McCain’s loudest mantras. Palin brings up energy and Barack voting for tax decreases for big oil companies and how she didn’t stand for that in Alaska and gave the tax break money to the citizens. Biden attacks McCain but then says he and Barack want to do what she did in Alaska with windfall taxes.
9:20pm - Biden is getting wound up a bit. He responds saying the health care tax incentive proposed by McCain is made up for by a tax on businesses.
9:18pm - Palin hits Biden with his “paying taxes is patriotic,” saying her and Todd are middle class and paying more taxes is not patriotic. The first landed jab of the night. She scores a few more points about Barack wanting to nationalize health care stating that nobody she knows wants Washington managing anything much less health care.
9:14pm - Palin says she is going to correct Biden as much as it takes. She says she is going to talk to the American people and let them know her track record. Ifill’s next question is a different question for each candidate. I am scratching my head about it. Oh well I am just glad I am not having to answer either question.
9:11pm - Sub-prime lending fault? Biden again says McCain is a good man and puts the fault on McCain and deregulation. Biden says that Obama was warning everyone about the sub-prime lending problems. Biden also brings up that McCain was recently quoted about deregulating health care. Palin responds by telling that Barack had 94x to vote against tax increases or for a tax cut and voted against it 94x. Biden says its not true.
9:09pm - Sub-prime lending fault? SP blames the predatory lenders for talking Americans into buying $300k house when they could only afford $100k house. She says there must be strict oversight and reform in D.C. and on Wall Street. And that we must also take personal responsibility.
9:07pm - Joe is claiming that he can reach across the aisle and has as many Republican friends as Democrat friends. LOL! Small points for Palin in rebutting Biden’s attack on McCain’s “fundamentals of the economy are strong,” stating that McCain was talking about the American working people.
9:05pm - Palin responds breaking it down into asking a parent at a soccer game on Saturday. SP must be one nervous person tonight. It has to make her wish she was shooting caribou in Alaska. We will see if she is a true fighter tonight or if she folds.
9:03pm - First question goes to Trader Joe about how well did Congress handle the bailout bill. He passes the blame on the Bush administration. Anyone taking bets on the over/under of Biden gaffes? Joe has the script memorized pretty well so far. Hopefully Palin will be a bit more personal.
9:00pm EST - Gwin Ifill is giving her introduction and making it clear all the questions were prepared by her and nobody else has seen them.
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PBS host Gwen Ifill is one of the moderators of this Thursday’s Vice Presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. There is just one really big problem. Ifill has written an Obama praise book, Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, that is scheduled to be released on inauguration day.
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Joe Biden, Democrat nominee for Vice President, said today in essence that perhaps Barack Obama should have selected Hillary Clinton as his running mate instead of himself according to ABC News.
“Make no mistake about this,” Biden responded. “Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend, she is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she’s first rate, I mean that sincerely, she’s first rate, so let’s get that straight.”
Perhaps Joe really feels that way or maybe he was just being polite and giving longtime friend Hillary Clinton some much needed respect.
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Mitt Romney, Vice Presidential hopeful to most, was reported by Fox News first thing this morning to not be the one who will run with McCain. Apparently he is still in his home state. Two women’s names were discussed somewhat out of the blue-Sarah Palin (Governor of Alaska- a private plane picked her and teenaged sons in Alaska?) and Meg Whitman (of Ebay and one of his three named people at the Saddleback forum that he said he would go to). Now THAT would be hip of the elderly MCcain, having a woman running mate. I would be very surprised. But either way, we should know by the end of the day.
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Bumpshack.com is reporting that Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has finally decided upon Joe Biden, the Delaware senator, has his selection to be his Vice President and running mate.
Not much of a surprise here. Barack needs Biden’s foreign policy experience. Biden is the one Democrat that can add foreign policy credibility to Obama.
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