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Cheney Spouts 'Red Herrings and Lies'
 Cheney Spouts 
 'Red Herrings and Lies' 
opinion
May 21, 2009 7:34 PM CDT

Cheney Spouts 'Red Herrings and Lies'

(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"...

Cheney 'Answers' Obama, Defends Bush Policy

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

(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...

Biden: Secret Bunker? What Secret Bunker?

VP denies he divulged 'undisclosed location' beneath residence

(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....

Cheney: Jeb Would Be a Fine President

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

(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...

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

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

(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...

Cheney: Time for Old-Timers Like Me to Step Aside

(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,...

Karzai Takes Ex-Warlords as Afghan Running Mates

Qasim Fahim held the post until 2004

(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....

Chatty Joe Provides 100+ Days of Gaffes
Chatty Joe Provides 100+ Days of Gaffes
analysis
May 1, 2009 8:23 AM CDT

Chatty Joe Provides 100+ Days of Gaffes

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

(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...

Biden's Flu Advice Gives White House a Headache

(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,...

Biden Wooed Specter for Years
 Biden Wooed Specter for Years 
Apr 29, 2009 10:49 AM CDT

Biden Wooed Specter for Years

(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...

'Cone of Silence' No Longer Muzzles Cheney

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

(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...

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

VP heads major assignments, 'stirs the pot'

(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...

Fox Ribs Biden's Fumbling Over Web 'Number'

(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...

Take My VP&mdash;Please!
Take My VP—Please! 
Feb 10, 2009 11:19 AM CST

Take My VP—Please!

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

(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...

Cheney: Soft Obama Makes Terror Attack More Likely

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

(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. “...

Professor (Jill) Biden Returns to Classroom

(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...

Veep's 'Lair' Reappears on Google

Image was blurred during Bush years

(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...

How Biden Got His Least-Likely Role
 How Biden Got 
 His Least-Likely Role 
Glossies
Jan 24, 2009 9:33 PM CST

How Biden Got His Least-Likely Role

His job as adviser will count

(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...

Biden Is 47th Vice President
 Biden Is 47th Vice President 
Jan 20, 2009 10:59 AM CST

Biden Is 47th Vice President

Longtime Del. senator sworn in at inauguration

(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...

Don't Tell Hillary: Biden Was Offered State Job, Wife Says

VP-elect shushes wife after admission that stunned Oprah

(Newser) - This time a gaffe came courtesy of the other Biden: The future Second Lady revealed to Oprah today that her husband had been offered a role as either Barack Obama’s vice-president or as secretary of state, ABC News reports. Joe Biden laughed after his wife’s slip-up, which caused...

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