If you ask Joe Biden, his use of foul language isn’t a big deal to the President of the United States.
Agence France-Presse reports that Vice President Joe Biden is "laughing off" his utterance of a profanity on Tuesday that was picked up by nearby live microphones. His dropping of the "f-word" occurred during the White House ceremony surrounding President Obama’s signing of the Democratic healthcare reform bill.
After a glowing introduction of the president, Biden leaned into Obama and stated: "This is a big [expletive] deal."
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Tags: Big F-in deal, Joe Biden, ObamacareU.S.-Israeli relations have hit a 35-year low over a contentious east Jerusalem building project that threatens to derail peacemaking efforts with the Palestinians, Israel’s envoy to Washington was quoted as saying Monday.
Ambassador Michael Oren’s remarks clashed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assurances that the political turmoil resulting from the settlement announcement, which the Obama administration slammed as "an insult," was under control.
It doesn’t look like Biden is helping the relationship much…
"Israel’s ties with the United States are in their worst crisis since 1975 … a crisis of historic proportions," the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quoted Oren as saying to Israeli diplomats in a phone briefing over the weekend.
Israeli officials said that the U.S. is pressing the Jewish nation to scrap the east Jerusalem building project.
Competing Israeli and Palestinian claims to east Jerusalem were feeding tensions in the holy city, where Arabs and Jews maintain an uneasy coexistence and sometimes clash. Police were out in large numbers in the volatile Old City in expectation of renewed clashes.
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Tags: Israel, Joe Biden, Middle East, PalestiniansThe historical budget tables released Monday by the White House along with President Barack Obama’s budget indicate that the first three years of Obama’s presidency—2009, 2010 and 2011—will feature the three largest annual budget deficits (when measured as a percentage of GDP) since World War II.
Biden and Obama are borrowing at an alarming rate
The deficits for 2009, 2010 and 2011 will also be the three largest ever in non-inflation-adjusted dollars. According to the budget tables published by the White House, the 2009 deficit was $1.41 trillion.
The 2010 deficit will reach $1.56 trillion and the 2011 deficit will reach $1.27 trillion.
When measured as a percent of GDP, according to the White House, the deficit for 2009 was 9.9 percent of GDP, the deficit for 2010 will be 10.6 percent of GDP, and the deficit for 2011 will be 8.3 percent of GDP.
From 1946 through 2008, the annual budget deficit never approached 8 percent of GDP. Before Obama, the two highest post-World War II budget deficits as measured by percentage of GDP were immediately after the war in 1946, when the deficit equaled 7.2 percent of GDP and in 1983, when it equaled 6.0 percent.
Read More: By Terence P. Jeffrey, CNS News
Tags: Barack Obama, Biggest Deficits, Joe BidenTwo U.S. Secret Service armored vehicles used to protect Vice President Biden struck and killed a pedestrian in Temple Hills early Wednesday morning, authorities said.
The vehicles were traveling together from Andrews Air Force Base at about 2:30 a.m. when the pedestrian was hit at the intersection of Suitland Parkway and Naylor Road in Temple Hills, U.S. Park Police said.
The drivers stayed on the scene and rendered first aid until police and rescue officials arrived, said Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan.
Biden’s motorcade kills a pedestrian
The pedestrian, an adult male, was transported to Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly with multiple critical injuries, police said. He was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
The armored sport utility vehicle and limousine were occupied only by Secret Service employees and were not carrying the vice president or any other dignitaries, said Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan.
Read More: By SCOTT MCCABE, Washington Examiner
Tags: Joe Biden, kills a pedestrian, MotorcadeWant to know how to deal with a momentous issue of war or grand strategy? You could do a lot worse than check out what Vice-President Joe Biden thinks – and plump for the opposite.
Mr Biden was chosen as Barack Obama’s running mate last August because he was old, white and supposedly knew a lot about foreign policy. I say “supposedly” because really Mr Biden’s overseas expertise amounted to having spent a long time as chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee, knowing the names of lots of world leaders, and being able to josh around amiably with them during congressional junkets across the globe.
Whatever Biden says the opposite is usually the best way
What Mr Obama overlooked was that Mr Biden, who served as a senator for tiny Delaware for 36 years, had never run anything in his life, or taken decisions rather than talking about things, at legendary length. Even in the United States Senate, that august body which each week produces enough hot air to transport 1,000 six-year-olds across America, Mr Biden – who sports hair plugs and a set of porcelain-enhanced gnashers that would blind a polar bear – is renowned for his wordiness.
His speech is littered with the word “literally” and he glories in meandering anecdotes about his family and Irish ancestry. When Obama aides tried to muzzle him during the campaign, Mr Biden agreed but would then muse on the stump: “I try to cut this stuff down, not dumb it down, just get down to the quick of the matter, the essence of the matter.”
Read More: By Toby Harnden, UK telegraph
Tags: Joe Biden, Mr. wrong, terrible advicePossibly a very important policy change quietly emerged in the daily schedule of Vice President Joe Biden today.
Loyal Ticket readers know that as a patriotic duty we monitor the long-time senator’s schedule with a close eye for detail because, after all, this man is only a heartbeat away from having to give a toast at a G8 summit. We’ve especially noted Biden’s innumerable ”private meetings” that are closed to the press because, well, they’re private.
And we’ve wondered aloud how this Democratic VP’s private meetings with unnamed people on unnamed subjects differs from the private meetings with unnamed people that his evil predecessor had that got so many Democratic senators and representatives worried about nefarious secrets.
On one recent long weekend the man who became a Delaware senator when his future boss, Barack Obama, was an inexperienced fundraiser of only 11, devoted an entire Monday to “private meetings” that are closed press in his Delaware home.
By NewsMax
Vice President Joe Biden turned his humor on his boss Wednesday, joking publicly about President Barack Obama’s known addiction to Teleprompters.
Appearing at the U.S. Air Force Academy commencement ceremony in Colorado, Biden noted that the wind blew over one of Obama’s Teleprompters, according to Fox News.
“What am I gonna tell the president when I tell him his Teleprompter is broken?” Biden said to the crowd. “What will he do then?”
The crowd laughed at the joke made at the expense of the absent president, who was in Las Vegas at the time.
Tags: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Teleprompter
Biden lies about Bush
Republican strategist Karl Rove called Vice President Biden a “liar” on Thursday, dramatically escalating a feud between Biden and aides to former President George W. Bush over Biden’s claims to have rebuked Bush in private meetings.
“I hate to say this, but he’s a serial exaggerator,” Rove told FOX News. “If I was being unkind I would say liar. But it is a habit he ought to drop.” Rove added: “You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States.”
Biden’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, although Biden spokesman Jay Carney told Fox on Wednesday: “The vice president stands by his remarks.” Carney was referring to two controversial assertions by Biden, the latest coming Tuesday during an interview on CNN.
“I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office,” Biden began, “‘Well, Joe,’ he said, ‘I’m a leader.’ And I said: ‘Mr. President, turn and around look behind you. No one is following.’”
The exchange is purely “fictional,” said Rove, who was Bush’s top political adviser in the White House.”It didn’t happen,” Rove, a FOX News contributor and former Bush adviser, told Megyn Kelly in an interview taped for “On The Record.” “It’s his imagination; it’s a made-up, fictional world.
“He ought to get out of it and get back to reality,” Rove added. “He’s making this up out of whole cloth.”
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