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Texas Grand Jury Indicts Vice President Cheney!

A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related... more

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Noosed Palin effigy removed from yard

Someone put a Plain mannequin in their front yard, hung in a noose. After protests and media attention, the homeowner decided to... more

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Anyone who has watched Joe Biden over 35 years in the Senate might have a little bit of trouble recognizing the guy who is running to be Barack Obama's Vice President. Oh, yes, he looks like the same fellow. But traveling with Biden during this campaign has sometimes been like reporting on a politician packaged in shrink-wrap. While his windy, off-point pontification was the stuff of legend among his Senate colleagues, Biden is now leashed to a teleprompter even when he is talking in a high school gym that is three-quarters empty. The exposure hound who in recent years appeared more often than any other guest on the Sunday talk shows is a virtual stranger to the small band of reporters on his plane — less accessible than even Sarah Palin is to her traveling pack of bloodhounds. And Biden keeps to a schedule that provides a minimum of off-the-cuff encounters with voters, except across a rope line.

As risky as it can be to let Biden step away from the teleprompter, it is in these moments that he can be most affecting. When he made a rare unscheduled stop at an ice cream parlor in Charleston, W.Va., Biden encountered the owner's daughter, a 28-year-old woman who told him she had suffered a brain aneurysm last December similar to the one that nearly killed Biden in 1988. The Senator threw an arm around Sara Beal's neck, pulled her to him and whispered in her ear. By the time he let her go about five minutes later, planting a kiss on top of her head, both of them were near tears.

Biden has a breadth of expertise that comes from having served as chairman of the Judiciary and the Foreign Relations committees in the Senate, two substance-heavy posts. But his ability to maneuver in either of those areas as Veep might quickly run him afoul of both the Attorney General and the Secretary of State. Biden will want a big say in helping decide who in an Obama Administration would get those two posts, if only because he will know how to get Obama's choices confirmed in the Senate better than anyone else. But those close to Biden say the model he would follow would more likely be that of Mondale. As one put it, "Joe Biden is the ultimate got-your-back kind of guy, and whatever that ends up meaning, that is what he'll do for Obama."
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Senator Biden makes a stop in Suffolk, Virginia.

October 25, 2008 - Senator Joe Biden makes yet another stop in Virginia for the Democratic ticket. He visited Nansemond River High... more

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Palin's 'going rogue,' McCain aide says

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) -- With 10 days until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate... more

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SNL: Sarah Palin Backstage

Cameras caught the action Backstage!

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Sarah Palin on SNL: Cold Open

Gov. Palin pays a visit to SNL.

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Cheney experiences abnormal heart rhythm

Vice President Dick Cheney experienced an abnormal heart rhythm and canceled his campaign event in Illinois.

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McCain calls Americans "My fellow prisoners"

First we're his "friends" now where his "fellow prisoners"?! McCains head is still stuck in that POW... more

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Brigitte Bardot: Sarah Palin is a 'disgrace to women'

Legendary French actress Brigitte Bardot, 74, has called Sarah Palin a "disgrace to women' in a fiery attack on the... more

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Palin Criticizes Biden While He's At Mother-In-Law's Funeral

While the presidential campaign has taken a decidedly personal and vicious tilt these past few days, one individual who has... more

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Quest For The Truth: VP Debates

People give responses to questions on the VP Debates in Saint Louis & the elections in general.

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SNL Uses Palin's Exact Quote

When Tina Fey spoofed Sarah Palin doing an interviewed with Katie Couric, she used an exacted quote the real Sarah Palin said... more

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2 months ago

Saturday Night Live: VP Debate

Queen Latifah hosts the SNL VP Debate.

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The VP Debate: techno remix!

If you missed the debate, SHAME ON YOU! But heres the techno remix!

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Women react to VP debate

Groups of women talk about how Sarah Palin did in the VP debate.

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2 months ago

Fact checking the VP debate

Find out the truths, half-truths and straight out lies in last night's VP debate.

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Just The Facts: Biden Holds Court in VP Debate Win

Senator Joe Biden reclaims the middle class and stumps Palin in a VP debate rally

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2 months ago

Download Obama iPhone Application

Features: * Call Friends: A great volunteering tool that lets you make a difference any time you want by talking to people... more

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VP Debate Tonight: Biden-Palin Time Info, Video, Highlights

"Live From St. Louis, It's Thursday Night!" Sen. Hillary Clinton's former strategist/spokesman Howard Wolfson wonders what it will take for Sarah Palin to get Americans to look past Tina Fey's SNL interpretation of her:

The short answers: Gov. Palin needs to demonstrate a real understanding of complex issues. Simple talking points won't cut it. She needs to make clear she grasps the difficult policy challenges that the next administration will confront. if she doesn't the debate will quickly turn into her own version of Thursday Night Live.

Sen. Biden's burden is the opposite. We all know he understands the issues. Instead he has to connect with Americans, making the case against John McCain without condescending to Gov. Palin and angering female voters. (He will not, for instance, be calling her "Sarah")

Intense Anticipation: The San Francisco Chronicle says tonight's debate is "must-see TV - even if you loathe politics - for its sheer unpredictability." Both candidates "display a marked tendency to set off America's collective gaffe-o-meter," the Hartford Courant writes, producing a "ghoulish fascination -- like waiting for a crash at a NASCAR race -- with tonight's debate." Politico notes that media figures expect it to be a ratings juggernaut, likely overtaking those of the first presidential debate.

Serious Doubts: The AP reported Thursday morning that voters harbor "serious doubts" about Palin's readiness. Fred Thompson defended her on CBS' Early Show:

"People will have a chance to see her from beginning to end without being edited," former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., told CBS' "The Early Show" on Thursday.

"We've all had bad days," Thompson said, "and she's had some bad moments in some of these interviews, just like the rest of us have had."

Palin Gives Debate Preview: Palin came out swinging during an appearance on Sean Hannity's radio show on Wednesday:

She gave a preview of how her preparations for Thursday's debate in St. Louis are going and said she has been researching Barack Obama and Joe Biden's voting records, "Everything is going well and I'm out here in Arizona getting some fresh air even as we are studying up and reading a lot of voting records and realizing how extremely liberal the other ticket is so this is a good time to be here and I so look forward to tomorrow night getting to speak to Americans about the very, very clear choice they are going to have on November 4th."
Palin also claimed she was eager for the debate since the media had been 'censoring' her: "Getting to speak directly to Americans without that filter of mainstream media trying to I think maybe censor some of my comments as we lay out those contrasts between these two different tickets."

The Format: Details on the debate mechanics:

-- Each candidate will stand behind a lecturn, making them more likely to fire zingers at each other. Dick Cheney and John Edwards were seated during their mostly sleepy 2004 VP debate. "Live From St. Louis, It's Thursday Night!" Sen. Hillary Clinton's former strategist/spokesman Howard Wolfson... more