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Dear Everyone,
I hope that this finds you well.
On 12/11/2009 the House passed a bill that will tighten financial regulations and making sure that we have main street not wall street first. We need to make sure that look into our fellow Main Street businesses and tell them thank you for all that you provide to our city, county, and nation. Remember that they are the backbone of our nation.
Remember to say thanks to all that you see this holiday season,
Dustin Stockmann
I hope that this finds you well.
On 12/11/2009 the House passed a bill that will tighten financial regulations and making sure that we have main street not wall street first. We need to make sure that look into our fellow Main Street businesses and tell them thank you for all that you provide to our city, county, and nation. Remember that they are the backbone of our nation.
Remember to say thanks to all that you see this holiday season,
Dustin Stockmann
To everyone,
I want to share with you a thought that was true on this day 68 years ago. We were attacked this day. We moved into the second World War. We were also united on a single thought. HOPE! We as a nation have had our differences and problems with each other and with the world, but why does it take a huge event to make us truly come together to bring hope back to our world and peace on the home front. We need never to forget that this day was the day that WE were attacked. We also need to remember that we were not parties or allegiances we were Americans. We need to come to this base again and move together into a better world for us and our children.
Thank you,
Dustin Stockmann
I want to share with you a thought that was true on this day 68 years ago. We were attacked this day. We moved into the second World War. We were also united on a single thought. HOPE! We as a nation have had our differences and problems with each other and with the world, but why does it take a huge event to make us truly come together to bring hope back to our world and peace on the home front. We need never to forget that this day was the day that WE were attacked. We also need to remember that we were not parties or allegiances we were Americans. We need to come to this base again and move together into a better world for us and our children.
Thank you,
Dustin Stockmann
Dear Everyone,
I want to ask all of you a serious question? Today is 12/04/2009 and my question is how are you doing in life? Have you given up on your ideas, wishes, and dreams of your life? I hope not because then we have a huge problem in the country then. I am a 23 year old male from Missouri and want to make our country better than what it was. I just finished reading a post from a person that was persecuted because of her ideas on politics and life. I want to ask the question of WHY? We are each individual people are we not, with our own ideas and thoughts? We have the same rights as the next person in our home, neighborhood, county, and state right? Then why do we hurt our neighbor, friend, and family member when we all want to have the country a shining beacon to the world right? People no longer care that maybe their neighbor needs help for a week, how your family is doing at home, or that we are no longer want to keep our jobs here at home. ***Now I must tell all of you that when you read this post needs to think about this for about 10 seconds. Think back 15 years ago. Didn't it seem that life was easier? Think back 20 years ago wasn't life still easier then? But we still had change going on in our world. We now live in a "three world" society. We have the "real world" that we actually live in and have our family, our jobs, and real fun and contact with people in. Then we have the world of the "internet." The internet is a great tool that helps make our life easier to pay bills, read what is going on in the world and connect us with people that we share ideas with, but remember that it is a tool. Then we have the "cellular" life. Where people can go almost anywhere and be connected with the real world and the internet world. These three worlds have started to tear people apart. We need to remember back to the days when we were kids.
Life is as easy as you make it. So I go back to my title of this post: Where we are now, how are we doing in life... are we as free as we were 10 years ago or are we scarred that maybe the neighbor that we wanted to say hi to might take it as politically incorrect...
Just something to think about
If you want to contact me my email is dustin.stockmann@hotmail.com
Hope to hear from you soon,
Dustin Stockmann
I want to ask all of you a serious question? Today is 12/04/2009 and my question is how are you doing in life? Have you given up on your ideas, wishes, and dreams of your life? I hope not because then we have a huge problem in the country then. I am a 23 year old male from Missouri and want to make our country better than what it was. I just finished reading a post from a person that was persecuted because of her ideas on politics and life. I want to ask the question of WHY? We are each individual people are we not, with our own ideas and thoughts? We have the same rights as the next person in our home, neighborhood, county, and state right? Then why do we hurt our neighbor, friend, and family member when we all want to have the country a shining beacon to the world right? People no longer care that maybe their neighbor needs help for a week, how your family is doing at home, or that we are no longer want to keep our jobs here at home. ***Now I must tell all of you that when you read this post needs to think about this for about 10 seconds. Think back 15 years ago. Didn't it seem that life was easier? Think back 20 years ago wasn't life still easier then? But we still had change going on in our world. We now live in a "three world" society. We have the "real world" that we actually live in and have our family, our jobs, and real fun and contact with people in. Then we have the world of the "internet." The internet is a great tool that helps make our life easier to pay bills, read what is going on in the world and connect us with people that we share ideas with, but remember that it is a tool. Then we have the "cellular" life. Where people can go almost anywhere and be connected with the real world and the internet world. These three worlds have started to tear people apart. We need to remember back to the days when we were kids.
Life is as easy as you make it. So I go back to my title of this post: Where we are now, how are we doing in life... are we as free as we were 10 years ago or are we scarred that maybe the neighbor that we wanted to say hi to might take it as politically incorrect...
Just something to think about
If you want to contact me my email is dustin.stockmann@hotmail.com
Hope to hear from you soon,
Dustin Stockmann
Yes we can! Ok I want you stop and think for a minute. We have a 10.2 unemployment rate as of October 2009 right? Well what I propose is a work project for all cities in our nation. In the cities of New York, Chicago, San Diego, Miami, St. Louis, and others we have a huge trash problems correct? We are a nation that is surrounded by trash. You drive by in the cities, they are trying their best to keep their cities clean, but how about we use the workforce that we have sitting on the sidelines and get them working again by helping the cities that they live in! First off all these workers would be working for the government in a labor movement for clean cities. So for pay, how about if we set up from the green department a pay level that is around $8.00 an hour and can work up to 20 hours a week with hours from six in the morning to four in the afternoon? So you can have a three shift day for people: 6:00-10:00 or 9:00-1:00 or 12:00-4:00. That would have three people working that were not before!
If you have any ideas please send them to me at dustin.stockmann@hotmail.com
Thanks,
Dustin Stockmann
If you have any ideas please send them to me at dustin.stockmann@hotmail.com
Thanks,
Dustin Stockmann
This was sent to the Governor of Missouri and was wanting to get feedback on this idea. Good and bad!
To whom it may concern,
My name is Dustin Stockmann and I am a worried citizen from Missouri about the national debt that we have going on. I was wondering what Missouri is doing to help with that? I would like to propose an idea to you, or maybe you can direct me to who I should contact about my idea? The idea that I have is called: "The 1% plan." What this plan would provide is a "piggy bank" for the state economy for a first stage of five years. We know that we have to pay taxes, state and federal, for our hard work that we provide to the nation. Well I propose that we form a 1% tax on all working people in the state. For example: I work and make $2,000.00 a month before taxes. So after I apply the 1% tax, I provide $20.00 to this piggy bank. This tax would be for all working people, full or part time. As long as you were holding down a job at any level then you would qualify for this 1% of wages tax. I know that we are trying to have health care go through, making sure that the troops can come home, and provide jobs to the masses but we also need to make sure that we dont have the same problem that we have had here in the last few months. Using more money than what we actually have. I would really like to hear any ideas that you or any person on your staff might have on the idea.
As a last thought I would like you to think of this, If this tax was established today, and I was making $2,000.00 a month before taxes, then after the 5 year piggy bank I would have given a possible $1,200.00 to the Missouri debt.
Thank you,
Dustin Stockmann
P.S. My email is dustin.stockmann@hotmail.com
To whom it may concern,
My name is Dustin Stockmann and I am a worried citizen from Missouri about the national debt that we have going on. I was wondering what Missouri is doing to help with that? I would like to propose an idea to you, or maybe you can direct me to who I should contact about my idea? The idea that I have is called: "The 1% plan." What this plan would provide is a "piggy bank" for the state economy for a first stage of five years. We know that we have to pay taxes, state and federal, for our hard work that we provide to the nation. Well I propose that we form a 1% tax on all working people in the state. For example: I work and make $2,000.00 a month before taxes. So after I apply the 1% tax, I provide $20.00 to this piggy bank. This tax would be for all working people, full or part time. As long as you were holding down a job at any level then you would qualify for this 1% of wages tax. I know that we are trying to have health care go through, making sure that the troops can come home, and provide jobs to the masses but we also need to make sure that we dont have the same problem that we have had here in the last few months. Using more money than what we actually have. I would really like to hear any ideas that you or any person on your staff might have on the idea.
As a last thought I would like you to think of this, If this tax was established today, and I was making $2,000.00 a month before taxes, then after the 5 year piggy bank I would have given a possible $1,200.00 to the Missouri debt.
Thank you,
Dustin Stockmann
P.S. My email is dustin.stockmann@hotmail.com
This Sunday, December 21: Vice President-Elect Joe Biden is a guest on ABC-TV's "This Sunday With George Stephanopoulous."
This will be VP-Elect Biden's first interview with "This Week" since the November election. He will discuss issues, priorities, White House Cabinet appointments and budgets under the Obama-Biden Administration, his reactions to an auto bailout and a new economic stimulus package, and his upcoming inauguration celebration on January 20, 2009.
"This Week" airs Sunday on local ABC channels throughout the United States. In the New York City area, it airs at 10:00 am ET. Here are some other cities with "This Week" local air times:
Los Angeles, 8:00 am
San Francisco, 8:00 am
Boston, 9:00 am
Chicago, 9:30 am
Houston, 10:00 am
Washington DC, 10:00 am
Detroit, 10:30 am
Philadelphia, 10:30 am
Atlanta, 11:00 am
This will be VP-Elect Biden's first interview with "This Week" since the November election. He will discuss issues, priorities, White House Cabinet appointments and budgets under the Obama-Biden Administration, his reactions to an auto bailout and a new economic stimulus package, and his upcoming inauguration celebration on January 20, 2009.
"This Week" airs Sunday on local ABC channels throughout the United States. In the New York City area, it airs at 10:00 am ET. Here are some other cities with "This Week" local air times:
Los Angeles, 8:00 am
San Francisco, 8:00 am
Boston, 9:00 am
Chicago, 9:30 am
Houston, 10:00 am
Washington DC, 10:00 am
Detroit, 10:30 am
Philadelphia, 10:30 am
Atlanta, 11:00 am
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According to The Legal Times, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the oldest and longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court, will swear in VP-Elect Joseph Biden as Vice President next month on Innauguration Day.
Vigorous and sharp at 88, he has served on the court for 32 years. In criminal-law and death-penalty cases, Stevens has voted against the government and in favor of the individual more frequently than any other sitting justice.
He files more dissents and separate opinions than any of his colleagues. He is the court's most outspoken defender of the need for judicial oversight of executive power. And in recent years, he has written majority opinions in two of the most important cases ruling against the Bush Administration's treatment of suspected enemy combatants in the war on terror -- an issue the court is revisiting this term when it hears appeals by Guantánamo detainees, challenging their lack of access to federal courts.
Justice Stevens was named to the Court in 1975 by President Gerald Ford. It is rare for a Vice President to be sworn in by a justice appointed by a president of the opposite party, so Vp-Elect Biden's choice to have Stevens swear him in can be seen as a bipartisan gesture -- though Justice Stevens is usually regarded as one of the most liberal justices on the Court.
According to family members and former law clerks, Justice Stevens still writes the first draft of his opinions. He uses the Internet, studied French before a recent vacation in Europe, and has become hooked on Sudoku number puzzles.
In addition, Stevens he has survived prostate cancer and had a bypass heart operation in the 1970s. Since then he has followed a low-fat diet, eating only a grapefruit for lunch.
Vigorous and sharp at 88, he has served on the court for 32 years. In criminal-law and death-penalty cases, Stevens has voted against the government and in favor of the individual more frequently than any other sitting justice.
He files more dissents and separate opinions than any of his colleagues. He is the court's most outspoken defender of the need for judicial oversight of executive power. And in recent years, he has written majority opinions in two of the most important cases ruling against the Bush Administration's treatment of suspected enemy combatants in the war on terror -- an issue the court is revisiting this term when it hears appeals by Guantánamo detainees, challenging their lack of access to federal courts.
Justice Stevens was named to the Court in 1975 by President Gerald Ford. It is rare for a Vice President to be sworn in by a justice appointed by a president of the opposite party, so Vp-Elect Biden's choice to have Stevens swear him in can be seen as a bipartisan gesture -- though Justice Stevens is usually regarded as one of the most liberal justices on the Court.
According to family members and former law clerks, Justice Stevens still writes the first draft of his opinions. He uses the Internet, studied French before a recent vacation in Europe, and has become hooked on Sudoku number puzzles.
In addition, Stevens he has survived prostate cancer and had a bypass heart operation in the 1970s. Since then he has followed a low-fat diet, eating only a grapefruit for lunch.
Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has named a longtime aide to Sen. Joe Biden to fill the U.S. Senate seat Biden will be vacating for the vice presidency.
At a news conference in Wilmington this afternoon, Gov. Minner said she would appoint Ted Kaufman to fill the vacancy.
Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman is a member of the advisory board of the Obama-Biden Transition project and Co-Chair of Vice-President Biden's transition team.
He was Senior Adviser to Senator Biden on the Obama Biden Presidential campaign. He has held a senior position in all of Biden's federal campaigns.
He was on Biden's Senate staff from 1973 through 1994, nineteen years as Chief of Staff.
It was not immediately clear if Biden would resign his Senate seat before or after he begins his seventh term in January. However, he must resign before being sworn in Jan. 20 as vice president.
Speculation on Biden's successor had centered in recent weeks on his son, Attorney General Beau Biden. Last week, however, the younger Biden announced that he planned to fulfill his National Guard duties and wouldn't accept an appointment to his father's U.S. Senate seat.
We wish you good luck and much success, Ted!
At a news conference in Wilmington this afternoon, Gov. Minner said she would appoint Ted Kaufman to fill the vacancy.
Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman is a member of the advisory board of the Obama-Biden Transition project and Co-Chair of Vice-President Biden's transition team.
He was Senior Adviser to Senator Biden on the Obama Biden Presidential campaign. He has held a senior position in all of Biden's federal campaigns.
He was on Biden's Senate staff from 1973 through 1994, nineteen years as Chief of Staff.
It was not immediately clear if Biden would resign his Senate seat before or after he begins his seventh term in January. However, he must resign before being sworn in Jan. 20 as vice president.
Speculation on Biden's successor had centered in recent weeks on his son, Attorney General Beau Biden. Last week, however, the younger Biden announced that he planned to fulfill his National Guard duties and wouldn't accept an appointment to his father's U.S. Senate seat.
We wish you good luck and much success, Ted!
Vice President-Elect Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) has just named three new White House staff positions:
Ms. Cynthia Hogan will be counsel to the newly-elected Vice President. She previously served as Chief Counsel to Senator Biden during his time in the United States Senate, and served as Staff Director of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1995 she assisted with the drafting of anti-terrorism legislation.
When she worked for Committee Chairman Sen. Biden, they successfully passed the landmark 1994 Violence Crime and Control Act and the Violence Against Women Act. She also advised him during the Supreme Court nominations process for both Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
Mr. Moises V. Vela, Jr. will join the White House staff as Director of Administration to Vice President Biden. From 1996-2000, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Advisor on Hispanic Affairs for Vice President Al Gore. Most recently, Vela was the founder and a partner at The Comunidades Group, a multi-family acquisition and operations company headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Mr. Biden's wife, Dr. Jill Biden, has named Catherine M. Russell as her new Chief of Staff. Most recently, Ms. Russell served as Chief of Staff to Mrs. Biden during the presidential campaign.
She also worked as a Senior Advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on international women's issues. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Associate Deputy Attorney General.
Senator Biden remarked, "Cathy Russell has a unique blend of policy and management experience, combined with an ardent commitment to ending injustices around the world. Cynthia Hogan is a brilliant lawyer who was instrumental in guiding the Senate Judiciary Committee though some of its most important challenges in both crime control and judicial selection, and has shown incredible legal acumen and integrity over her career. I'm grateful to have Moe Vela, a man with experience in White House management and broad outreach skills on my team."
We wish them the best of luck and much success in their new jobs!
Ms. Cynthia Hogan will be counsel to the newly-elected Vice President. She previously served as Chief Counsel to Senator Biden during his time in the United States Senate, and served as Staff Director of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1995 she assisted with the drafting of anti-terrorism legislation.
When she worked for Committee Chairman Sen. Biden, they successfully passed the landmark 1994 Violence Crime and Control Act and the Violence Against Women Act. She also advised him during the Supreme Court nominations process for both Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
Mr. Moises V. Vela, Jr. will join the White House staff as Director of Administration to Vice President Biden. From 1996-2000, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Advisor on Hispanic Affairs for Vice President Al Gore. Most recently, Vela was the founder and a partner at The Comunidades Group, a multi-family acquisition and operations company headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Mr. Biden's wife, Dr. Jill Biden, has named Catherine M. Russell as her new Chief of Staff. Most recently, Ms. Russell served as Chief of Staff to Mrs. Biden during the presidential campaign.
She also worked as a Senior Advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on international women's issues. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Associate Deputy Attorney General.
Senator Biden remarked, "Cathy Russell has a unique blend of policy and management experience, combined with an ardent commitment to ending injustices around the world. Cynthia Hogan is a brilliant lawyer who was instrumental in guiding the Senate Judiciary Committee though some of its most important challenges in both crime control and judicial selection, and has shown incredible legal acumen and integrity over her career. I'm grateful to have Moe Vela, a man with experience in White House management and broad outreach skills on my team."
We wish them the best of luck and much success in their new jobs!
President-elect Barack Obama today named Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. as the next U.S. Attorney General. He has accepted the position, pending a Senate approval.
Mr. Holder will be the first African-American U.S. Attorney General in American history.
He was former Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1997 to 2001. He also served as Acting Attorney General under President George Bush for a few weeks until the Senate confirmed John Ashcroft as the AG nominee.
Last year Mr. Holder joined Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign as a senior legal advisor. And most recently, he became part of a three-member Vice Presidential selection committee with Caroline Kennedy and Jim Johnson.
He is 57, and married with three children.
Mr. Holder will be the first African-American U.S. Attorney General in American history.
He was former Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1997 to 2001. He also served as Acting Attorney General under President George Bush for a few weeks until the Senate confirmed John Ashcroft as the AG nominee.
Last year Mr. Holder joined Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign as a senior legal advisor. And most recently, he became part of a three-member Vice Presidential selection committee with Caroline Kennedy and Jim Johnson.
He is 57, and married with three children.
VP-Elect Sen. Joe Biden has tapped VP Gore veteran Ron Klain to be his chief of staff.
Earlier in his career, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White during the Court’s 1987 and 1988 Terms and worked on Capitol Hill, where he was Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Klain had also previously been close to Sen. Biden through his service as counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Committee, when Sen. Biden was its Chairman.
Ron Klain was portrayed by actor Kevin Spacey in the 2008 film "Recount."
Congrats, Mr. Klain - you've got a great new boss!
Earlier in his career, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White during the Court’s 1987 and 1988 Terms and worked on Capitol Hill, where he was Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Klain had also previously been close to Sen. Biden through his service as counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Committee, when Sen. Biden was its Chairman.
Ron Klain was portrayed by actor Kevin Spacey in the 2008 film "Recount."
Congrats, Mr. Klain - you've got a great new boss!
There is a great profile on Senator Biden in today's New York Times, "From The Road: Biden's Closing Argument." Here is the link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/11/04/politics/fromtheroad/entry4568577.shtml
"...Biden's poll numbers have steadily climbed since he was announced as Obama's running mate, and nearly three quarters of Americans believe he would be prepared to take over the presidency..."
"...This election is not about Barack," Biden said Monday. "It's not about me, it's not about Sarah Palin or John McCain, it's about you and now it's up to you. It's up to you to take back this country."
"It's in your hands. In less than 24 hours, we'll know who the next leader of the free world is and ladies and gentlemen, I know. I know, America knows, that Pennsylvania is going to decide the next President of the United States of America. It's gonna be Barack Obama!"
God bless you, Joe Biden...we're with you, all the way!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/11/04/politics/fromtheroad/entry4568577.shtml
"...Biden's poll numbers have steadily climbed since he was announced as Obama's running mate, and nearly three quarters of Americans believe he would be prepared to take over the presidency..."
"...This election is not about Barack," Biden said Monday. "It's not about me, it's not about Sarah Palin or John McCain, it's about you and now it's up to you. It's up to you to take back this country."
"It's in your hands. In less than 24 hours, we'll know who the next leader of the free world is and ladies and gentlemen, I know. I know, America knows, that Pennsylvania is going to decide the next President of the United States of America. It's gonna be Barack Obama!"
God bless you, Joe Biden...we're with you, all the way!
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari announced Tuesday government awards for U.S. Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden and Republican Senator Richard Lugar.
Biden and Lugar in July introduced a bipartisan U.S. aid plan which calls for $1.5 billion per year in non-military spending to support economic development in Pakistan.
Zardari had awarded them the "Hilal-i-Pakistan" (Crescent of Pakistan) "in recognition of their consistent support for Pakistan," the government said in a statement.
Pakistan has figured in the U.S. presidential election campaign, with both Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican John McCain speaking of the need for more focus on defeating the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and eradicating al Qaeda from Pakistan's borderlands.
Zardari is the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in a suicide attack in the city of Rawalpindi on December 27 last year.
Biden and Lugar in July introduced a bipartisan U.S. aid plan which calls for $1.5 billion per year in non-military spending to support economic development in Pakistan.
Zardari had awarded them the "Hilal-i-Pakistan" (Crescent of Pakistan) "in recognition of their consistent support for Pakistan," the government said in a statement.
Pakistan has figured in the U.S. presidential election campaign, with both Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican John McCain speaking of the need for more focus on defeating the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and eradicating al Qaeda from Pakistan's borderlands.
Zardari is the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in a suicide attack in the city of Rawalpindi on December 27 last year.
Take A Look: In-depth VP candidate profile of Senator Joe Biden in Oct. 20th "New Yorker" magazine, see Web link, below:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_lizza?printable=true
The article, by Ryan Lizza, is in "The Political Scene" department, called "Biden's Brief." Here are two paragraphs from the article:
During the primaries, which continued until June, Obama and Biden spoke about twice a week. “He’d call not so much to ask for advice as to bounce things off me,” Biden said as we sat in the tent. “And then when he asked me if I would consider being vetted”"possible Vice-Presidential candidates must submit to a personal and financial investigation by the campaign"“I said I’d have to think about it.”
Biden, who has served in the United States Senate for thirty-six years, wasn’t certain that the Vice-Presidency was an improvement over his current position. “I’ve got a job I think matters now, as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,” he said. “Presumptuous for me to say, but at least"at a minimum"I’ve been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I’ve been relatively"presumptuous to say"relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle. And so it wasn’t self-evident to me that being Vice-President would be a better job"you know what I mean?”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_lizza?printable=true
The article, by Ryan Lizza, is in "The Political Scene" department, called "Biden's Brief." Here are two paragraphs from the article:
During the primaries, which continued until June, Obama and Biden spoke about twice a week. “He’d call not so much to ask for advice as to bounce things off me,” Biden said as we sat in the tent. “And then when he asked me if I would consider being vetted”"possible Vice-Presidential candidates must submit to a personal and financial investigation by the campaign"“I said I’d have to think about it.”
Biden, who has served in the United States Senate for thirty-six years, wasn’t certain that the Vice-Presidency was an improvement over his current position. “I’ve got a job I think matters now, as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,” he said. “Presumptuous for me to say, but at least"at a minimum"I’ve been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I’ve been relatively"presumptuous to say"relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle. And so it wasn’t self-evident to me that being Vice-President would be a better job"you know what I mean?”
Sen. Joe Biden is scheduled to tape two talk show appearances in Burbank today and speak at two campaign fundraisers in West Hollywood tonight in his first trip to Southern California since becoming the Democratic VP nominee.
He will tape an appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" that will air tonight.
Sen. Biden will also tape an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' syndicated daytime talk show, scheduled for future broadcast.
He is scheduled to speak at two fundraising events for the Democratic National Committee's Obama-Biden Victory Fund, both at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. One fundraiser is a $500-per-person reception and the other is a reception and dinner.
He will tape an appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" that will air tonight.
Sen. Biden will also tape an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' syndicated daytime talk show, scheduled for future broadcast.
He is scheduled to speak at two fundraising events for the Democratic National Committee's Obama-Biden Victory Fund, both at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. One fundraiser is a $500-per-person reception and the other is a reception and dinner.
http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden joins actor Colin Farrell on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, this Thursday, October 16.
Tune in!!!
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden joins actor Colin Farrell on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, this Thursday, October 16.
Tune in!!!
Ohio: As part of the “Change We Need Rally” tour of Ohio, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden will be in Ohio this Tuesday, Oct. 14th, and Wednesday, Oct. 15th, for several Obama-Biden campaign events.
Sen. Biden will kick off the tour through eastern Ohio starting Tuesday with a “Change We Need Rally” at the Warren Community Amphitheatre in Warren. Doors open at 8:30 am and it starts around 10:30 am. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but the campaign recommends RSVPing at the Barack Obama Web site.
Later on Tuesday afternoon Sen. Biden will speak at Ohio University Eastern Campus in St. Clairsville. The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 2 pm and the program begins at 4 pm.
Tuesday night Sen. Biden will speak at 7:15 pm in an outdoor rally on Armory Square in front of the old Ohio National Guard armory on Front Street in Marietta. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
For security purposes, the area around the armory will be cordoned off…no tickets are required, but the audience will be admitted first-come first serve through a gate where metal detectors will be used.
Sen. Biden will kick off the tour through eastern Ohio starting Tuesday with a “Change We Need Rally” at the Warren Community Amphitheatre in Warren. Doors open at 8:30 am and it starts around 10:30 am. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but the campaign recommends RSVPing at the Barack Obama Web site.
Later on Tuesday afternoon Sen. Biden will speak at Ohio University Eastern Campus in St. Clairsville. The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 2 pm and the program begins at 4 pm.
Tuesday night Sen. Biden will speak at 7:15 pm in an outdoor rally on Armory Square in front of the old Ohio National Guard armory on Front Street in Marietta. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
For security purposes, the area around the armory will be cordoned off…no tickets are required, but the audience will be admitted first-come first serve through a gate where metal detectors will be used.
Tune in to C-Span tonight,Sunday, at 9:30 pm, to see this afternoon's Obama-Biden rally in Scranton, PA - with guest speakers Democratic VP nominee Sen. Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, and NY Senator Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton. Read More »
Okay, so I am a genius. This is what we do:
So everyone is naturally full of shit right? A week before election day we get every single person who ever voted for Bush to take a very potent laxative which would result in an environmental disaster. Obama being more talented at environmental issues, then sweeps in and saves the nation from the mudslide and gains a landslide victory. The plan is flawless and symbolic on so many levels.
So everyone is naturally full of shit right? A week before election day we get every single person who ever voted for Bush to take a very potent laxative which would result in an environmental disaster. Obama being more talented at environmental issues, then sweeps in and saves the nation from the mudslide and gains a landslide victory. The plan is flawless and symbolic on so many levels.
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