youtube.com - 1/25/2009
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In his first interview as Vice President, Joe Biden spoke with Bob Schieffer about his power as Vice President and President Obama's proposed economic plan.
cbsnews.com - 1/25/2009
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cbsnews.com —
In his first interview as Vice President, Joseph
Biden told CBS News' Bob Schieffer that he does...
not see his role to be "deputy president." Rather, said he hopes to be a "confidant, advisor and essentially the last guy in the room when [President ...
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Biden: I Am Not "Deputy President" - Political Hotsheet
gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 1/23/2009
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In a TV interview last month, Vice President
Joe Biden said the following: Every economist, as I've...
said, from conservative to liberal, acknowledges that direct government spending on a direct program now is the best way to infuse economic growth and ...
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Is Joe Biden disingenuous or misinformed?
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Sunday Show Tour: The Stimulus Plan
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Joe Biden On The Economic “Mess” Obama Is Inheriting
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One of our favorite journalists — print or newspapers — is CBS’s Bob Schieffer. Vice President Joe Biden gave Schieffer (the epitome of the centrist journalist who tries to play it straight down the middle) his first interview as Vice President. This is already a shift: Vice President Dick Cheney seemed to most enjoy being interviewed by Fox News and by Sean Hannity (who is not the epitome of the centrist journalist who tries to play it straight down the middle).
The news coming out of this interview: Biden says the economy is worse than he or anyone thought. He talks about the economic “mess” Obama is inheriting: ...
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