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OPINION

OK, Mr. President, Enough With the TV: Maher

Obama should focus on getting things done, Bill Maher writes

Jun 12, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The country needs more presidential action and fewer presidential TV appearances, Bill Maher writes for the Los Angeles Times. "Every time you turn on the TV, there's Obama. He's getting a puppy! He's eating a cheeseburger with Joe Biden! He's taking the wife to Broadway," he writes. Not... More »

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television • Barack Obama • Joe Biden • Michelle Obama • Bill Maher • George W. Bush • Obama administration • President Obama • Bo Obama

ANALYSIS

Obama Effect Drove Lebanon Allies to Victory

Hezbollah defeat
bodes well for Iranian
election this Friday

Jun 9, 09 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Voters in Lebanon had many reasons for backing American allies over a Hezbollah-led coalition in Sunday's bellwether elections, but political analysts say that Barack Obama's efforts to reach out to the Muslim world played a significant role in the outcome. For the first time in years, being linked to Washington... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • Joe Biden • Middle East • Lebanon • Hezbollah • Obama administration • Lebanese elections

(Newser) - Barack Obama believes he has a big advantage when it comes to passing health care reform. Though he ran as an outsider, he’s “quietly but methodically assembled the most Congress-centric administration in modern history,” writes Matt Bai in the New York Times Magazine. Unlike Clinton,... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • Joe Biden • Rahm Emanuel • Obama administration

(AP) - Vice President Joe Biden visited Lebanon today to reinforce US support for the government ahead of key parliamentary elections. The vote in two weeks could see a pro-Western majority ousted by a coalition led by the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah. Biden is the highest-ranking US official to visit Lebanon in... More »

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Joe Biden • Lebanon • diplomacy • Hezbollah • Obama administration

(Newser) - The rocky relationship between President Obama and Joe Biden comes under scrutiny in a new book by a Newsweek reporter, Fox News reports. In Renegade: the Making of a President, Richard Wolffe writes that Obama is “distracted by his vice president's indiscipline” and has had to personally rebuke... More »

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Joe Biden • Newsweek • publishing • discipline • book • Valerie Jarrett • Obama administration • President Obama • Richard Wolffe

 Biden Arrives in Bosnia 

Set to meet with presidency, Bosnian and Serbian leaders

May 19, 09 7:02 AM CDT
(AP) - Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Bosnia today, the first stop of a three-day trip aimed at demonstrating intensified US engagement in the Balkans. Biden landed in Sarajevo, where he is scheduled to meet Bosnia's three-person presidency, address parliament, and meet separately with the country's two staunchest rivals—Bosniak leader... More »

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Joe Biden • Bosnia • Serbia • protests • Balkans • Sarajevo

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

 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

ANALYSIS

 GOP Looks to Centrists for 2010 

Candidates should 'fit their states': Cornyn

May 7, 09 10:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the GOP eyes 2010, it’s turning to centrist candidates to restore its health—despite a “good riddance” attitude to the departure of moderate Arlen Specter, Politico reports. “I’m absolutely committed to recruiting candidates around the country that fit their states,” said National Republican Senatorial... More »

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Congress • Joe Biden • Arlen Specter • John Cornyn • Charlie Crist • centrist • moderate • President Obama • Election 2010 • Michael Castle

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Sebelius: Never 
 Mind Biden; 
 It's OK to Travel 

Newest cabinet member seeks to allay swine flu fears

May 3, 09 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s new Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made the talk show rounds today, insisting that people should continue traveling, despite remarks to the contrary by Joe Biden. “Traveling and being in close places is certainly something we encourage people to continue to do,” she... More »

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Mitt Romney • Joe Biden • travel • Health and Human Services • Arlen Specter • Patrick Leahy • Kathleen Sebelius • swine flu

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



 Avoid Planes, Trains, 
 Closed Spaces: Biden 

It's too late to close Mexico border, he says

Apr 30, 09 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Biden is advising his family to avoid confined places where swine flu could spread easily, including airplanes, subways, classrooms, and malls, the VP told the Today Show today. A single sneeze "goes all the way through the aircraft," he noted. Biden also said it's too late to... More »

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Joe Biden • public health • public transportation • virus • President Obama • swine flu

OPINION

 Obama, Biden Earn A-Minuses 

Pundits offer wide-ranging report card

Apr 29, 09 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - On President Obama’s 100th day in office, Mark Halperin of Time provides a White House report card:
  • Barack Obama: A-. “Instantly comfortable and highly skilled at the hardest job in the world.”
  • Joe Biden: A-: Operates "precisely in the manner he and
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Hillary Clinton • Joe Biden • media • Michelle Obama • pundits • Grover Norquist • grades • Obama administration • analyst • President Obama • Timothy Geithner • Jonathan Alter • 100 days • Marcy Wheeler

 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

Rendell Gets Machiavellian in Specter Switch

Senate ambitions may have played role in governor's courtship

Apr 29, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter’s party switch was a "seriously Machiavellian" move by Joe Biden and, particularly, Gov. Ed Rendell, writes Eleanor Clift of Newsweek. Biden’s self-interest in the matter is obvious: Specter represents the all-important 60th Senate vote. But the "gregarious, ambitious" Rendell, an even closer... More »

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Joe Biden • Senate • Arlen Specter • Pennsylvania • Ed Rendell • Democratic Party

Obama 'Thrilled' to See Specter Join Dems

'You have my full support,' president tells Pa. senator in call

Apr 28, 09 1:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Within minutes after Sen. Arlen Specter announced he was switching from the Republican to the Democratic Party, President Obama called Specter from the Oval Office, welcoming him into the fold, Politico reports. We are “thrilled to have you,” Obama said, adding, “You have my full support.”... More »

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Barack Obama • Joe Biden • Senate Democrats • Arlen Specter • Democratic Party

 Specter Defects to Democrats 


Apr 28, 09 11:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter is jumping to the Democrats, leaving the party excruciatingly close to a filibuster-proof Senate majority, reports Politico. Sources say VP Joe Biden was key to the effort to recruit the Pennsylvania senator. “Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party... More »

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Joe Biden • Senate • Senate Democrats • Arlen Specter • Senate Republicans • Ed Rendell • Republican Party • filibuster • Democratic Party • President Obama • Minnesota recount

(Newser) - An errant plane set off a brief security scare in Washington today, prompting the relocation of President Obama and VP Biden, Bloomberg reports. The small aircraft entered restricted airspace before being intercepted by military jets and obeying orders to leave the area and land at a nearby airport. During the... More »

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Barack Obama • Joe Biden • Washington DC • White House • plane • airspace violation • Robert Gibbs • President Obama • U.S. Capitol • Piper Cub

 Obamas File $2.7M Tax Return 

It's a big pay cut from the year prior

Apr 15, 09 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the country finishing up its taxes, the Obamas divulged their household income today, revealing a combined income of $2.7 million last year—significantly less than 2007’s $4.2 million. Most of it came from the president’s books, which raked in a combined $2.5 million. The... More »

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Joe Biden • taxes • salary • tax returns • President Obama • Obama family

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