Joe Being Joe: Crowd Corrects Biden After He Forgets What School He’s Speaking At… <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/j3eZ_7_ZFA8?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe> While campaigning at Wright State University (Dayton, OH), VP Joe Biden implies that he is at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) (September 12, 2012).
Fun Fact Of The Day: Romney Gave 1,000 Times As Much To Charity In A Year As Biden Gave In A Decade… Via Weekly Standard: The release of Mitt Romney’s 2011 tax returns shows that he freely gave away more than $4 million to charity last year (about 30 percent of his income). In comparison, when Joe Biden was first running for vice president, his tax returns showed that he had given away just $3,690 to charity over the previous ten years (about 0.2 percent of his income). In other words, Romney gave away a thousand times as much to charity in one year as Biden gave in a decade. That’s despite the fact that the Bidens earned well over $2 million over that decade. In fact, their income was$320,000 in 2008, thereby putting them comfortably over the $250,000-a-year line that marks the entry point for “millionaires and billionaires” in Obama-speak.
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Biden To Seniors In Florida: Hey, Who Wants A Free Colonoscopy?… Bawney Fwank spotted raising his hand in the air. Via DC Examiner: In Florida this afternoon, Vice President Joe Biden reminded them that thanks to President Obama, they could now get colonoscopies without a co-pay. During his speech, Biden reminded the audience that some of their Republican friends would distort Obama’s record on Medicare.
Biden Says Department of Homeland Security Crawling with Lesbians Home - by Cardigan - October 1, 2012 - 23:00 America/New_York - 7 Comments The Daily Rash WASHINGTON – With the Democratic convention drawing the bulk of the media’s attention this week, reports that a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security had resigned Saturday amid accusations of employment discrimination and sexual harassment were overlooked by the majority of news agencies. The official, Suzanne Barr, an aide to the department’s secretary, Janet Napolitano, had been on leave from her position of chief of staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a male agent filed a lawsuit accusing her of creating a “frat house” atmosphere designed to humiliate male employees. Additional male employees came forward with their own complaints of sexual misconduct by Barr. Early today on CBS This Morning, Vice President Biden sat down with host Gayle King and near the end of the interview he was asked about the Homeland Security story. Following is an excerpt from that interview: GAYLE KING: Mr. Vice President, according to the Associated Press, Suzanne Barr, a senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, resigned Saturday amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior. JOE BIDEN: Yes, and it’s an unfortunate turn of events. GAYLE KING: The allegations of sexual impropriety against Miss Barr include aggressive attempts to humiliate and intimidate her male counterparts. JOE BIDEN: (After a thoughtful pause) Look, we’ve known for some time now that the Department of Homeland Security is crawling with lesbians. Gayle King stared wide-eyed at the vice president. JOE BIDEN: But it’s never been a concern, Gayle, because those frisky gals have done such a bang up job. GAYLE KING: Uh… apparently Miss Barr also worked under Janet Napolitano while she was governor of Arizona, serving as her director of legislative affairs. JOE BIDEN: Yeah, the two of them are kind of like you and Oprah.
Joe Biden Confused, Thinks He’s Campaigning For Romney: “The Middle Class Has Been Buried Over The Last FOUR Years”… He does know the administration he’s part of has been running the show for the last four years, right? How dare they (the GOP) raise taxes on the middle class with their tax cuts?" ......Joe Biden <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nlvqqNG4hr8?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe> VP Joe Biden while campaigning in Charlotte, NC says that the “Middle Class has been buried over the last four years.” (October 2, 2012).
In Honor of Biden, Romney Campaign Releases ‘Honest Joe’ T-Shirt Yesterday, Joe Biden announced angrily at a campaign event that the “middle class has been buried the last four years.” Today, the quote is on a T-shirt — the Honest Joe — available from Mitt Romney’s website:
... and how many times dit Romney use the phrase "Buried middle class" in the first debate. I even saw the start of a small grin once when he said it. :wink:
Biden Defends Obama’s Debate Performance: “He’s My Buddy . . . He Did A Great Job”… No, no he didn’t. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_a4sUAVbzAo?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Another “Fact” Joe Was Wrong About Feds have more than 1,900 investigations open into alleged stimulus wrongdoing Washington Guardian The Recovery Board charged with coordinating efforts among than inspectors generals at more than two dozen federal agencies that distributed stimulus money posted an item on its official blog last month claiming the total amount of money lost to fraud from the $840 billion stimulus program was a miniscule $11.1 million so far. Vice President Joe Biden even made reference to the figure as he defended the stimulus program from attacks from Republican Rep. Paul Ryan during the vice presidential debate last Thursday. But that number only identifies money that is considered lost to fraud and does not include funds still under investigation or those recommended for reimbursement after audits identified misspending, officials said. And a senior official familiar with the ongoing investigations by inspectors generals at federal agencies told the Washington Guardian the government expects the loss figure to balloon in coming months. “These cases often take months or years, and we’ve got hundreds open right now across the government so that number is going to go up, probably by a large amount over the next 18 months,” the official said, speaking only on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak to the media. Since the blog post a month ago that released the $11 million figure, several inspectors generals have announced new convictions, prosecutions or audits, a sign that some of the investigations are growing near decisions and actions. For instance, the Energy Department inspector general reported last week it discovered the California energy commission collected two duplicate payments under a stimulus program that costs taxpayers $678,000 and and it recommended the money be repaid.
Fresh scapegoats Home - by Cardigan - October 15, 2012 - 13:30 America/New_York - 7 Comments NY Post How is the Obama White House going to fit the entire State Department and the intelligence community under the bus? Last month’s Benghazi fiasco saw four Americans — including our ambassador to Libya — murdered by elements of al Qaeda in a military-style assault timed to coincide with the 11th anniversary of 9/11. The weeks afterward saw the administration blaming a video that, even the White House now admits, had nothing to do with it. And the months before the attack saw Washington adamantly reducing security in Benghazi — despite pleas for reinforcements from the folks on the ground. Yet President Obama’s top spokesman — and Vice President Joe Biden, in last week’s debate — have been busy pointing fingers of blame at State and the IC. It won’t work. Neither Foggy Bottom nor the intel community’s legion of spooks, analysts and secret-keepers is likely to go quietly. Indeed, State has already started the pushback. It has pointedly released the transcript of an Oct. 9 media briefing in which Brad Klapper of the Associated Press asks what “led officials to believe for the first several days that this was prompted by protests against the video?” Someone described only as “Senior State Department Official Two” answers, “That is a question you would have to ask others. That was not our conclusion.” Of course, Biden and Obama spokesmen like Jay Carney have been claiming that “the intelligence” the White House received at first had blamed the attack on the video. This part of the blame game will fail because it just doesn’t make any sense. The American IC is not infallible, but what part of it — the CIA? The National Security Agency? State’s own Bureau of Intelligence and Research? — would have leaped to such a ridiculous conclusion?