Biden headed back to N.H.
Fresh off what some pundits are calling his best debate performance ever, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden plans to return Monday to New Hampshire, a swing state where recent polls show he and Barack Obama sprinting ahead.
Obama's campaign said this morning that Biden will hold "community gatherings" in the Rochester and Manchester areas.
“On Monday, Senator Biden will come to New Hampshire to talk about the challenges we face on Main Street,” Sandra Abrevaya, the campaign's New Hampshire communications director, said in a statement. “Senator Biden will discuss the critical importance of an economic plan that gives back to hard working American families instead of taxing their health care plans and a giving breaks to CEOs of big corporations. After eight years of an Administration that has neglected the American middle class, Senator Biden will outline an economic policy that will finally make the playing field fair.”
Today, Biden is at his son's deployment ceremony to Iraq. Beau Biden, 39, the state's attorney general, is a lawyer in the Delaware National Guard.
Biden said he has spoken at such ceremonies before as a US senator. "Today I come as a father," he said in brief remarks. "My heart is full of love and pride."
"Thank you for answering the call of your country," he told the Guard members. "Stand strong, stand together, serve honorably, and come home to the families that love you."
In the era of the all-volunteer military, it is rare for national politicians to have children serving in war zones. But along with Biden's son, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's 19-year-old son Track is also in Iraq.
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Good thing Joe Being Joe isn't going to UNH to teach a seminar on constitutional law (as he does at Widener Univ.).
From last night's debate:
“BIDEN: Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that. And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit. The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he's part of the Legislative Branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive and look where it has gotten us. It has been very dangerous.”
First of all, Biden gets wrong one of the most basic facts about the Constitution: Article 1 establishes the legislative branch, not, as Biden said, the executive branch. The Vice President is mentioned in Article II as part of the executive branch, but he is also given legislative powers by Section 3 of Article 1, which establishes the Senate: The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided. Vice President Cheney's "bizarre notion" is in keeping with the plain text of the Constitution.
A rather odd statement coming from someone who has served in Congress for three decades and since 1991 has taught a seminar on constitutional law at Widener University Law School in Wilmington. For his students’ sake, I hope that question isn’t on their law boards.
Come to think of it, Aaron Burr not Dick Cheney was “the most dangerous Vice President in history” – Burr actually killed the person he shot at.
Biden, hands down, won that debate last night. At least he knows what the Constitution is.
Joe messed up BIG TIME:
Biden was wrong that John McCain's tax plan provides "virtually nothing to the middle class."
Biden distorted McCain's comments about whether he would meet with the prime minister of Spain.
Biden incorrectly said “John McCain voted the exact same way” as Obama on a controversial troop funding bill. The two were actually on opposite sides.
Biden wrongly claimed that McCain “voted the exact same way” as Obama on the budget bill that contained an increase on singles making as little as $42,000 a year. McCain voted against it. Biden was referring to an amendment that didn't address taxes at that income level.
Every time Palin spoke, I felt stupid and confused..... Her voice drives me crazy
You Bahstonians sure have a funny accent too. The way you drive your cahrs make NASCAR drivers look like they're going out for a Sunday drive.
YOUR voices are driving the rest of the normal country crazy.
YOU look stupid and confused by constantly voting for left wing nut jobs like McGovern, Teddy The Murderer Kennedy and Hussein Obama.
Palin was beyond embarassing...reform...maverick....policy...maverick....
I'm moving to Mexico if she gets to dc
What Joe Biden got wrong on the Constitution was which article the executive power stems from. He however got the correct analysis of Cheney's ridiculous assertion that he is a member of the legislative branch because of his senate ti-breaking role. Gov. Palin did not even comprehend the question let alone answer it. Biden was wrong to name the wrong Article, but at least his position makes sense
Joe is Wrong, how did Biden distort McCain's comments about the prime minister of Spain? On the funding bills, there were 2.....one without timelines that Obama voted against, one with timelines that McCain voted against. Joe Biden, if you were listening, made the distinction between the 2 bills.
If people hate Massachusetts so much, why do they come to post on boston.com, and why does everyone, Including W, come to school here?
Geez, ya know? I have a kitchen and I sit around it and do real things... Not like that old guy over there, also. And I sure am proud to shout one out to that 3rd grade class, ya git extra credit, fer sure, over there, also.
Now just one teeny weeny difference. I don't understand when you say I wuz for the bridge before I waz aginst it. Oops. 'cuz when ya gotta git goin' you sure can't do what the other team says, 'cuz should be doin', but isn't sayin', also.
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How much more time do I have?