globalcomment.com - 2/3/2009
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Vice President Joe Biden’s biography became a campaign tool when he joined the Obama ticket this past summer. Then-Senator Biden’s no-bull attitude meshed well with the story of the father who took the train home from Washington, D.C. every night to be with his kids after the death ...
whitehouse.gov - 1/30/2009
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whitehouse.gov —
Save the Date: First Meeting 2/27/2009 The Task
Force’s first official meeting will be on February 27,...
2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The topic of the first meeting will be: “Green Jobs: A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class.” Vice President Joe ...
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A Strong Middle Class
blogs.telegraph.co.uk - 2/9/2009
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk —
Pity poor Joe Biden. His "there's still a
30 percent chance we're going to get it wrong"...
quote is put straight to President Barack Obama during the White House press conference just now and his boss seemed to want to say: "Vice-President Who?" As ...
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Barack Obama throws Joe Biden under the bus :: Toby Harnden
blogs.wsj.com - 2/7/2009
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blogs.wsj.com —
Susan Davis reports from Williamsburg, Va., on the
House Democrats retreat. Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged today...
that Democrats could face political repercussions in 2010 for their support of the $900 billion economic stimulus ...
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Biden Urges Passage of Stimulus Despite Voter Backlash
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Over at Global Comment, Sarah Jaffe, in a devastatingly on-target critique, utterly eviscerates yesterday’s head-pattingly patronizing L.A. Times article/future-bird-cage-liner (where the credentials of Dr. Jill Biden were examined [and dismissed] in a manner that was maddeningly glib, highly gendered–and entirely sexist).
Jaffe’s point about the underlying (and intersecting) double standards at play is especially sharp:
I have to wonder, if we were discussing a male academic who taught at a prestigious ...
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... | posted by Melissa McEwan | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 What's the frequency, Shakers? Recommended Reading: Sarah: That's DR. Biden to You Zohra: ...
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