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http://www.yDid Vice President Joe Biden fall asleep during President Barack Obama's budget speech Wednesday? The Veep was caught with his eyes closed for an extended period of time. (April 13)
outube.com/watch?v=9oVBPwdvuIM&feature=player_detailpagehttp://www.yDid Vice President Joe Biden fall asleep during President Barack... more
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Fox News continues to tell the American public that thanks to the "surge" the Iraq War is over. Nothing could be further from the truth as witnessed by a large explosion today inside the Green Zone where Vice President Biden and his wife were meeting Iraqi officials.
http://tiny.cc/7di11Fox News continues to tell the American public that thanks to the "surge"... more
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A Northern California has been taken into federal custody without bail after being charged with sending racist, profanity-laced e-mail threatening to kill President Barack Obama and his family.A Northern California has been taken into federal custody without bail after being... more
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"I couldn't attend the Inaugural events in person because my school scheduled our final exams for this week, starting Tuesday but January 20th has significance to me (us) all the same.
Obama's election has brought great Hope to America and with it an awakening among its electorate of the Purpose and Opportunity born of the seeds of Hope that made this country the envy of many around the world and that brought them here with visions of attaining their greatest potential."
(read the whole article at the link)
Adults have made their feelings about the Inauguration well known. What about the scores of teens across the country who may not have been old enough to vote this time around? What do they think about this Inauguration? Are they paying attention? Does it have significance for them as the young man in the article above asserts? Let's hear more comments from the generation that will vote in 2012 for the first time on how they feel about this year's Inauguration of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden as President and Vice President."I couldn't attend the Inaugural events in person because my school... more
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Tuesday January 20th, 2009 promises to be a momentous day in history and yet lots of children will have to settle for re-runs of the events and Obama's speech. Why? There are schools that will be in session on Tuesday even as many adults have taken the day off from work; even more have traveled thousands of miles (some from other countries) to DC to bear witness to history.
Monday is Martin Luther King Day and a national holiday. Perhaps it's time we declare Inauguration Day a national holiday as well so kids like mine won't be sitting at a desk taking final exams while the next President of the United States is delivering his speech and taking the oath of office. And parents will miss the speech and oath as well because it's an early release day due to exams so we will be in the car retrieving our children from school while the majority of the country and the world bear witness to history.
For those children not lucky enough to get to witness this event in person, being able to watch it LIVE through broadcast media lets them share the moment nonetheless and feel a part of history. Once it's over, they won't want to sit down and watch a recap which is like watching home movies of someone else at an event you didn't attend. Besides, mine will will need to be studying anyway for their next exam on Wednesday. Aside from being really bad planning on the part of my kids' school Administrators, I suspect it never entered their minds to close school on Tuesday because they didn't support Obama anyway in the November election and are bitter about the loss of their candidate.Tuesday January 20th, 2009 promises to be a momentous day in history and yet lots of... more
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In a moving and often amusing delivery, VP Elect Joe Biden bid his Senate colleagues goodbye today (10 AM) as a fellow Senator.
In recounting the advent of computers and how some in the Senate felt it was a waste of taxpayer money to put computers in their offices, Biden said, "I'm almost embarrassed to admit that; it means I'm a pretty old dude."
In another vignette, Biden recounted the great friendships he had developed with Senators now deceased whose positions were in opposition to his own. As he lay dying in hospital Strom Thurmond, former Governor of South Carolina and staunch Conservative had his wife call Senator Biden to ask him to deliver Thurmond's eulogy when he passed. In remembering this moment, Biden told his listeners, "Friendship and Death are great equalizers."
Biden's history with former Senator John C. Stennis, a courtly Mississippi Democrat and staunch opponent to civil rights provided another moving moment. He recounted their introduction when Biden was a new, young Senator who told the Old Guard Senator that he had come to the Senate for Civil Rights, realizing only after he's said it just whom he was addressing. He then recollected his encounter with Stennis as Stennis was retiring and Biden was taking his office and how his parting words to Biden were that "Civil Rights did more to free the white man than the black man" and when Joe asked him why Mr. Stennis replied with a tap of the heart, "It freed my soul. It freed my soul."
Biden's more touching remembrance came as he talked of the deaths of his first wife and infant daughter shortly after being elected to the Senate. After a period of grief and standing watch at the bedside of his sons also injured in the accident that took his wife and daughter, Biden returned to the Senate. He said that he they became his second family and that he would forever be grateful to them for that comfort and support.
It seems the state of Delaware will be losing a fine, dignified and dedicated Senator respected by colleagues from both sides of the aisle. If he serves his country as Vice President even half as well as he served the state of Delaware as Senator, the country can surely only benefit from his sacrifice.
(Author: "Barkway")In a moving and often amusing delivery, VP Elect Joe Biden bid his Senate colleagues... more
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At 2:50 AM Central Time, August 23, Barack Obama sent the following text message to his supporters:
Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.BarackObama.com. Spread the word!
So Obama/Biden it is!
This is the first time ever we've been able to use the term 'historic text message'.
At 2:50 AM Central Time, August 23, Barack Obama sent the following text message to... more
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