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(Newser) - Today's "televised smackdown" between Obama and Cheney was the "political world's equivalent of Ali-Frazier," writes Dana Milbank in the Washington Post. After the president warned against "fear-mongering," Cheney came out swinging. He "used the word 'attack' 19 times, 'danger' and 'threat' six times apiece,... More »

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national security • Dick Cheney • vice president • speech • harsh interrogation • Gitmo • President Obama

(Newser) - Today's speech was "classic Dick Cheney," writes Fred Kaplan in Slate, and he doesn't mean it as a compliment. The former VP "built a case on straw men, red herrings, and lies" and put his "Manichean worldview" on full display. Kaplan labels as "blatant evasion"... More »

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Dick Cheney • vice president • waterboarding • interrogations • President Obama

Cheney 'Answers' Obama, Defends Bush Policy

Says he's 'firm proponent' of 'enhanced interrogation program'

May 21, 09 11:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney offered an “answer” to President Obama’s national-security speech today, standing up for the policies of the Bush administration and saying he remained “a strong proponent of our enhanced interrogation program,” CNN reports. “In the fight against terrorism,” Cheney said, “there is... More »

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Bush administration • national security • Dick Cheney • torture • terrorism • homeland security • vice president • harsh interrogation • President Obama

Biden: Secret Bunker? What Secret Bunker?

VP denies he divulged 'undisclosed location' beneath residence

May 18, 09 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Biden did not—repeat, not—disclose the existence of a bunker at the Naval Observatory used by former VP Dick Cheney, Politico reports. “What the vice president described in his comments was not—as some press reports have suggested—an underground facility,” a Biden aide said today.... More »

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Joe Biden • Dick Cheney • vice president • Obama administration • Naval Observatory • residence • undisclosed location

Cheney: Jeb Would Be a
Fine President

Another Bush in
White House? Fine idea, says former VP

May 12, 09 7:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney isn't happy that he and George W. Bush aren't running the world anymore, so he'll settle for the next best thing—stick Jeb Bush in the White House. “I think he's a good man," Cheney told Neil Cavuto of Fox. "I'd probably support him... More »

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Dick Cheney • vice president • Jeb Bush • Republicans

 Biden: Bo 
 Don't Know 
 Nothin' Like 
 MY Dog 

Veep disses his boss's dog in chat with fifth-graders

May 12, 09 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vice President Joe Biden may have once again strayed off-message in a question-and-answer session with some Syracuse fifth-graders yesterday, the Post-Standard reports. Asked if he had ever petted a dog, Biden told the kids he had a dog of his own—and that his German shepherd didn't play second fiddle... More »

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pets • Joe Biden • vice president • gaffe • dog • President Obama • Portuguese water hound • Bo Obama

(Newser) - Dick Cheney covered the usual ground during a radio interview today—telling Republicans to resist the urge to become moderate and defending the Bush administration—and also said it's time for longtime party vets like himself to step aside, Politico reports. "It helps clear away some of the underbrush,... More »

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Dick Cheney • GOP • vice president • Republicans

Karzai Takes Ex-Warlords as Afghan Running Mates

Qasim Fahim held the post until 2004

May 4, 09 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai tapped a former mujahedeen warlord as one of his two vice-presidential candidates today, the New York Times reports. Muhammad Qasim Fahim was Karzai’s vice president from the beginning of his administration through 2004, and still holds sway with political parties made up of former guerrillas.... More »

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Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • Kabul • vice president • election • mujahedeen • Muhammad Fahim • Muhammad Karim Khalili

analysis

Chatty Joe Provides 100+ Days of Gaffes

The veep has his
uses, but staying on message ain't one

May 1, 09 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - This week perfectly illustrates the yin and yang of Joe Biden, write Sam Youngman and Ian Swanson of the Hill. First, he scores a political coup by helping to convince pal Arlen Specter to defect. Then he promptly inserts foot in mouth with his advice on how to avoid the... More »

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Joe Biden • Arlen Specter • vice president • gaffe • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs • swine flu

(Newser) - Oh, Joe. The vice president's impromptu advice this morning to avoid airplanes and subways has resulted in a daylong series of rebuttals and backtracking, reports the Christian Science Monitor. “To suggest that people not fly at this stage of things is a broad brush stroke bordering on fear mongering,... More »

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Joe Biden • airline industry • vice president • gaffe • swine flu

 Biden Wooed Specter for Years 


Apr 29, 09 10:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Biden is the Democrat perhaps most responsible for Arlen Specter’s defection, Politico reports. The VP told a crowd yesterday that he had been trying to convince the Pennsylvania Republican “that he is really a Democrat” for more than 20 years. Specter's onetime Senate colleague recently stepped up... More »

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Joe Biden • Senate Democrats • Arlen Specter • Senate Republicans • vice president • Obama administration • switching parties

ANALYSIS

 'Cone of Silence' 
 No Longer 
 Muzzles Cheney 

He just left—but the former VP is back as opposition voice

Apr 24, 09 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former vice presidents tend to keep a low profile right after leaving office—not so Dick Cheney, who has been making the rounds as a voice for Republican opposition. When Cheney “sees the current administration making decisions that he believes are making the nation less safe, he does not... More »

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Dick Cheney • conservative • John Bolton • Republican Party • vice president • Meghan McCain

Analysis

 Biden Crafts 
 Key Niche as 
 'Adviser-in-Chief' 

VP heads major assignments, 'stirs the pot'

Mar 29, 09 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Blunt, verbose, and a Beltway insider, Joe Biden could not be more different than his polished, change-loving boss, but he's solidified a key role in the administration just the same, the New York Times reports. When Barack Obama asked Biden to join his ticket, he sought a “uber-adviser” who... More »

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Joe Biden • vice president • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - Fox News is poking fun at Joe Biden for seeming a little clueless about the web. During an appearance on CBS' Early Show today, Biden sought to refer viewers to the government's new stimulus-tracking website, but he couldn't come up with its "number." His full line: "You... More »

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John McCain • Joe Biden • Internet • vice president • George W. Bush • The Early Show

Take My VP—Please! 

Just 3 weeks in, jokes signal tensions may lurk beneath Obama's public praise of Biden

Feb 10, 09 11:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Only a few weeks in, and Joe Biden and Barack Obama are already sniping at each other half-seriously? That’s how it sometimes looks, the Los Angeles Times reports. After the VP  recently talked up the stimulus package’s chances of failing. Obama responded, “You know, I don’t... More »

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Barack Obama • Joe Biden • vice president • Obama administration • Obama-Biden

Cheney: Soft Obama Makes Terror Attack More Likely

Says fighting extremists 'a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business'

Feb 4, 09 9:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Dick Cheney thinks there’s a “high probability” terrorists will attack the US with a biological or nuclear weapon, and that Barack Obama’s policies will likely only increase those odds. Fighting terrorism is “a tough mean, dirty, nasty business,” the former vice president told Politico. “... More »

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War on Terror • Barack Obama • Dick Cheney • torture • terrorism • Guantanamo Bay • vice president • harsh interrogation • al-Qaeda

(Newser) - Jill Biden isn't letting all this Washington hubbub affect her career. The wife of the vice president has begun teaching English as an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College, the Daily Press reports. Biden, who has two master's degrees in English and reading and a doctorate in education, taught... More »

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Joe Biden • vice president • teaching • Jill Biden

 Veep's 'Lair' 
 Reappears 
 on Google 

Image was blurred during Bush years

Jan 26, 09 1:11 PM CST
(Newser) - When Dick Cheney was vice-president, his official residence was blurred on Google Maps. But the week Joe Biden moved in, the Naval Observatory suddenly became visible, Gawker reports. Many had noticed the isolated pixelation of Cheney’s address, including Maureen Dowd: “You can view satellite photos of the White... More »

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Joe Biden • Dick Cheney • Google Earth • vice president • Google Maps • satellite images • Washington, DC

Glossies

 How Biden Got 
 His Least-Likely Role 

His job as adviser will count

Jan 24, 09 9:33 PM CST
(Newser) - A self-declared "Senate man," Joe Biden admitted up-front that he might not fit the vice-presidency. The charming Democrat had spent two-thirds of his life making feisty speeches and verbal flubs—not exactly characteristic traits of a VP. So Barack Obama and Biden sat down to talk. All... More »

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Barack Obama • Joe Biden • Senate • White House • vice president

 Biden Is 47th Vice President 

Longtime Del. senator sworn in at inauguration

Jan 20, 09 10:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Joe Biden has assumed the office of vice president of the United States, the Washington Post reports. On the steps of the Capitol, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens swore in the longtime Delaware senator, who vowed to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all... More »

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Joe Biden • Dick Cheney • vice president • John Paul Stevens • inauguration • Jill Biden • President Obama • Inauguration Day

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