All Posts Tagged With: "joe biden"
Biden to Push for Gun Violence Curb
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama is scheduled to announce that Vice President Joe Biden would be leading the White House effort to develop policies for addressing the gun violence in the wake of the Newtown school massacre in Connecticut last week. President Obama will not be announcing policy decisions, rather he will be laying out [...]
Ryan Challenges Biden Remark
Paul Ryan, the recently named vice presidential running mate of Republican candidate Mitt Romney, is taking on the campaign of President Obama over the recent remark made by Vice President Joe Biden. Biden, in a recent speech, used the phrase “back in chains.” Obama defended Biden’s remarks against criticism from both parties. Ryan increased the [...]
Biden Told Obama Plan Was Flawed in Afghanistan
In 2009, when President Obama was considering adding up to 40,000 military forces in Afghanistan, Vice President Biden issued a warning that the rationale was flawed, says a yet to be published book about the war. The book says that while planning troop drawdown two years afterwards, the the Obama administration left out the CIA [...]
Vice President Biden Comfortable with Same-sex marriage
Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States said he was very comfortable with same-sex marriage, a view, which appeared to be different with his boss on the social issue that is a hot button. On Meet the Press, on Sunday, Biden was pressured into answering if the Obama administration is going to try [...]
Biden Says Romney Policy Dangerous and Shallow
Vice President Joe Biden has called the foreign policy that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, has outlined, as ill informed, shallow and dangerous. Biden said it would be like returning to a time of the past that everyone has worked diligently to move beyond. Biden said President Obama would happily stack up his accomplishments [...]
Obama Spends Christmas with Family and Military
President Barack Obama spent Christmas as a father and commander-in-chief. He exchanged gifts and sang carols with his family. Afterwards, he greeted the service members stationed at a Marine base in Hawaii. The Obama family woke up early on Christmas day to open gifts. Then they breakfast and sang Christmas carols in the house they [...]
Union Win in Ohio Improves Obama’s Chances in 2012
Ohio voters turned down a law that was supported by Republican Governor John Kasich, which would place a limit on the bargaining for firefighters, police, and other state workers. That was a way for the local governments in the state to decrease their budget deficits. Democrats praised the result of the elections and they would [...]
US Wants to Unite the World versus Iran
The Obama administration wants to take its case against Iran to the world as it tries to stir up an international response to the charges that the Islamic republic wanted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Vice President Joe Biden said that it is important that the world is united in this [...]
President and His First Lady to Visit Shanksville
President Barack Obama and his wife will travel to the Flight 93 crash site for the first time on the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to go to the Stonycreek Township on September 10 to attend the dedication of the Flight 93 National Memorial. The announcements [...]
Mitch McConnell can Make or Break Debt Ceiling Deal
Analysts say that a last minute debt limit deal will depend on Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. For several weeks he has been discussing with Vice President Joe Biden, with whom he made a deal last December to extend the Bush-era tax cuts. Senator McConnell also had a meeting with President Barack Obama last Saturday [...]
