Joe Biden on the Campaign Trail - Assures a Win

Less than a week ago, the Vice-President Joe Biden stated publicly at a campaign event in Marion Ohio that Mitt Romney is “not going to be elected.”

The Vice-President was in the middle of his speech, complete silence from the audience listening to him, then out of nowhere came a baby's cry.

In an instantaneous response by the Vice-President, Joe Biden says:

"Look, I don't blame that baby for crying," Biden said. "You know what, she just realized what it means if Romney gets elected," he added, prompting laughter from his audience. It's a joke the vice president also made on Saturday in St. Augustine, Florida, as another baby wailed in the crowd.

Again, another instantaneous response, just as if he was predicting another baby would be crying...

"Hi baby. How are you? It's ok. He's not going to get elected," Biden said. "You're going to be okay."

Candidates usually just back their candidates at during campaign speeches, but it is really not that common for a candidate to say the opponent will loose. Regardless of the norm, Vice-President Joe Biden means what he says, and in just a little over a week from now, the whole world will know if the Vice-president was correct in his prediction or not.

Unfortunately for both candidates, Obama and Romney, mother nature is showing up again during a most critical time in the race. Originally, a hurricane prompted a late start in the Republican (RNC) convention in Miami not long ago, and now Hurricane Sandy seems to threaten both campaigns, as the candidates have canceled campaign stops.

The President will wade out the so called – Perfect storm at the White House, while I'm not certain what Governor Mitt Romney will do. After the storm passes, depending on the damages caused by the storm, both candidates plan to return to Ohio, which is not expected to be affected by the storm. There is a chance that the President will no longer campaign as both candidates are running out of time for campaigning. The end of the campaign is in sight. The President may be better served to visit weather stricken states if the storm causes much damage. Acting presidential instead of dealing with politics would be the right thing to do for the President.

The frightful thing about the storm is that there are two weather fronts involved, one moving to the southeast from Canada, and the 2^nd, Hurricane Sandy coming from the South. When these two storms collide, a 'perfect-storm' can be formed. Extremely cold air, mixing with warm moist air can cause extreme flooding and bad weather conditions. It still is unknown where the storm will make shore, but most likely around New Jersey or New York. Getting around in New York City may be a challenge, as the subway riders may experience a system that is shut-down during the storm.

Again, just a week to go, and both campaigns will rest for the next campaign. Twisters most likely will be spawned from such weather, so the question is now will the storm pass before election day.

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Who truly is Mitt Romney's Enemy at the moment, besides himself?

CAN YOU IDENTIFY ROMNEY'S NUMBER 1 ENEMY?

Hurricane Issac

Paul Ryan

Todd Akin

Joe Biden

Barack Obama

As everyone who listens to the news by now already knows that the Republican race for their candidate to run against President Barack Obama is Mitt Romney. But there has been many bumps in the road for the unlikely candidate to be successful against the incumbent Barack Obama. One of the bumps happens to be a tropical storm named Issac, that has been barreling into the Gulf of Mexico. The Republican Party officials have canceled the opening day of their national convention in Tampa, Florida. Planned for the first day is roll call at the convention, and then it will immediately halt for the day in preparation for bad weather expected from tropic storm Issac, soon to become a full fledged hurricane. It does appear that tropical storm Issac is most certain to turn into a hurricane and now is taking a path just west of the mainland of Florida. The nomination of Mitt Romney for the Republican candidate will formally take place on Tuesday.


Presently, the star of the day is Mr. Hurricane Issac, then following close behind is a Missouri Congressman by the name of Todd Akin, who stirred up a hornet's nest with his remarks about "Legitimate rape" and how a woman's body can thwart a real rape from ending in a pregnancy. He echos Paul Ryan's beliefs.  Have any ideas where this Congressman is at the moment. Where else but Tampa, as he is not scheduled to speak at the convention but he is revving up support from evangelicals and social conservatives in the same town..  Everywhere Mitt Romney turns, he faces a challenge. The Convention, that is supposed to go on through Thursday is not have a great start. Meanwhile, still another challenge to arrive in Tampa is the one and only Vice President of the United States. No, he's not scheduled to speak at the Republican convention, but he does plan to be in town at the same time to talk about the re-election of President Barack Obama.
So the heat is on. Before you know it, the Republican National Convention will be a thing of the past. Will Mitt Romney ever get a chance to really define himself at the convention? Just recently, he and his newly selected candidate to run with him as his vice-president,Paul Ryan, and they will both face off against President Obama in November.
It was anticipated by social concervatives and members of the tea party that the new candidate for vice-president would stir up support for the party, but there always seems to be other things taking up the headlines.
In a bold move by both the nominee Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential pick, both have claimed that they will not release more tax returns.
In a strange twist, the Vice-presidential candidate has come out with a conviction that he and Mitt Romney are now for Medicare, when in actuality both of them are for tearing it apart. Both claim that President Obama is stealing funs from Medicare in the tune of millions of dollars, but this fallacy is just one of many that the candidates are posing to the American people. With a cover-up to soon show at their speeches at the Repbulican National Convention along with other lies to be surfaced at the Democratic convention shortly after the Republicans end theirs, The Democratic Convention will commence and the real truths to Barack's presidency to date and the road blocks presented by the Republicans in a despirate attempt to stop the president to get re-elected will be evident.

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Vice President Joe Biden tears into Dick Cheney on Meet the Press

UPDATE, 10:15 AM ET: See details from Cheney's interview below.
In a much-anticipated Sunday showdown between Vice President Joe Biden and his predecessor Dick Cheney, Biden has drawn first blood.
Asked to respond to a range of harsh attacks on the Obama administration leveled by Cheney, Biden first gathered himself. "Let me choose my words carefully here," he told David Gregory in a pre-taped interview for Sunday's "Meet the Press."
Then Biden let loose with several minutes of his most pointed criticism of Cheney since the 2008 presidential campaign, when Biden claimed that Cheney had "done more harm than any other single elected official in memory in terms of shredding the Constitution."
Speaking to Gregory, Biden charged at least four times that Cheney was "rewrit[ing] history" with his recent attacks, and declared that President Obama has amassed a success rate in countering terrorism that "exceeds anything that occurred in the last Administration."
Cheney will appear on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.

TRANSCRIPT......

DAVID GREGORY: Let me ask you about some of the criticism that's been leveled at this Administration by former Vice President Dick Cheney. He has argued that this Administration has failed to treat the fight against terrorists as war. He cites the decision related to Khalid Sheik Muhammad to offer him a civilian trail as one example. Giving the Christmas Day Bomber the privileges of the American criminal justice system is another example. The decision to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison. What do you say?

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Let me choose my words carefully here. Dick Cheney's a fine fellow. He's entitled to his own opinion. He's not entitled to rewrite history. He's not entitled to his own facts. The Christmas Day Bomber was treated the exact way that he suggested that the Shoe Bomber was treated. Absolutely the same way. Under the Bush Administration there were three trials in military courts. Two of those people are now walking the streets. They are free. There were 300 trials of so-called terrorists and those who engage in terror against the United States of America who are in federal prison and have not seen the light of day. Prosecuted under the last Administration. Dick Cheney's a fine fellow, but he is not entitled to rewrite history without it being challenged. I don't know where he has been. Where was he the last four years of the last Administration?

DAVID GREGORY: What about the general proposition that the President according to former Vice President Cheney doesn't consider America to be at war and is essentially soft on terrorism? What do you say about that?

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I don't think the Vice-- the Former Vice President Dick Cheney listens. The President of the United States said in the State of the Union, "We're at war with Al Qaeda." He stated this-- and by the way, we're pursuing that war with a vigor like it's never been seen before. We've eliminated 12 of their top 20 people. We have taken out 100 of their associates. We are making, we've sent them underground. They are in fact not able to do anything remotely like they were in the past. They are on the run. I don't know where Dick Cheney has been. Look, it's one thing, again, to-- to criticize. It's another thing to sort of rewrite history. What is he talking about?

DAVID GREGORY: You have often said, when I've asked you and others, that you never impugn a man's motives. But why do you think Dick Cheney is speaking out and being so critical of the President and the Administration so publicly?

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I don't know. I-- I-- I'm not gonna guess about his motive. All I know is he's factually, substantively wrong. On the major criticisms he is asserting. Why he's insisting on that. He either is misinformed or he is misinforming. But the facts are that his assertions are not accurate.
DAVID GREGORY: You would not be this outspoken or critical when you're out of office. Is that fair to say?

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Well, I-- I-- I would hope I-- look, it's one thing to be outspoken. It's another thing to be outspoken in a way that misrepresents the facts. And I-- I guess-- again, I-- it's almost like Dick is trying to rewrite history. I can understand where the-- why that would be-- you know, an impulse. And maybe he isn't-- literally, I'm not being facetious. Maybe he's not fully informed of what's going on. I mean, the progress we have made. There has never been as much emphasis and resources brought against Al Qaeda. The success rate exceeds anything that occurred in the last Administration. And they did their best. I'm not-- I'm not impugning their effort. It's simply not true that the President of the United States is not prosecuting the war against Al Qaeda with a vigor that's never been seen before. It's real. It's deep. It's successful.
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Dick Cheney's interview with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl aired on Sunday morning. Some notable moments:

-- Cheney laughed at Biden's claim that Iraq would end up being a great success of the Obama administration.

"I guess I shouldn't be surprised by my friend Joe Biden," he laughing.
"I'm glad he now believes Iraq is a success," Cheney said. "For them to try and take credit for what has happened in Iraq strikes me as a little strange. ... So if they are going to take credit for [Iraq's success] - fair enough - for what they've done while there are there - but it ought to go with a healthy dose of 'thank you George Bush' up front. And a recognition that some of their early recommendations with respect to prosecuting that war were just dead wrong."

"I think the biggest strategic threat the United States faces today is the possibility of another 9/11 with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind. And I think Al Qaeda is out there - even as we meet - trying to do that," Cheney said to ABC's Jonathan Karl.

"Now, President Obama has taken them off the table. He announced when he came in last year that they would never use anything other than the U.S. Army Manual which doesn't include those techniques. I think that's a mistake," Cheney said in an exclusive interview on "This Week."

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Biden: Cheney "Dead Wrong," Country Is "More Safe" Under Obama (VIDEO)

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Vice President Joseph Biden on Tuesday forcefully rejected the argument, made most notably by his predecessor Dick Cheney, that the United States is less safe under President Obama's leadership.
Asked by CNN's Gloria Borger whether Cheney's comments were "out of line," Biden said no, "but he is dead wrong."
"[T]he last administration left us in a weaker posture than we've been any time since World War II," Biden argued. "Less regarded in the world, stretched more thinly than we ever have been in the past, two wars under way, virtually no respect in entire parts of the world."
The Vice President then went a step further, stating that the country is actually safer now than it was during the Bush presidency. "I guarantee you we are safer today, our interests are more secure today than they were any time during the eight years... We are more safe. We are more secure. Our interests are more secure, not just at home, but around the world. We are rebuilding America's ability to lead."



Later, Biden recalled a point he had made to George W. Bush about his administration's foreign policy errors. "I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office, and he was a great guy, enjoyed being with him. He said to me, he said, well, Joe, he said, I'm a leader. And I said, Mr. President, turn around and look behind you. No one's following. People are beginning to follow the United States again as a consequence of our administration."

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One Single Day Left before the Presidential Elections

1 Day until the Presidential Election - November 4, 2008
79 Days until Inauguration Day - January 20, 2009

With just one single day to go before the next President of the United States is elected, the candidates are going full steam in attempt to win over as many voters as possible Still, the polls show that Barack Obama is way ahead in the race, concerning the electoral vote pre-counts. Of course the real electoral votes for this election will be tallied by tomorrow evening, and then we will know who will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States On January 20, 2009.
Neither candidate is giving up without a fight, although it is agreed by most people that John McCain is fighing an uphill battle to gain votes. As previously reported in the last article, Barack Obama made extensive efforts to get new voters to sign up to vote and it looks like it is paying off. So far up to this date, there has been at least 20 million people that voted prior to election day. That is a staggering number of people, and the majority has already been determined as Democrat. If that is true and the trend of expected voters and electoral votes keeps on the path of Barack Obama, he should win the election with an unprecedented victory over John McCain. Of course, the polls prior to the actual general election on November 4th are just predicted vote tallies, and factors that can be unannounced to us now may become factors that would ultimately sway the outcome of the race.
Still there is one more day of hard campaigning by both contenders. Barack Obama will spend his very last day of his 22 month presidential campaign beginning in Jacksonville, Florida and an event in Charlotte, North Carolina. The finale will be the end of the trail on election night in a special event in Manassas, Virginia.
A few states that normally go to the Republicans like Florida and North Carolina, as voters leaning towards supporting Barack Obama this year.
Also on the trail, Michelle Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on the very last day before the election. Michelle meets with voters in Nevada and
Colorado, while Joe Biden campaigns in Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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Vice Presidential Debate - October 2, 2008

In just a few short hours, the Vice Presidential Nominees Sarah Palin and Joe Biden will take stage on location at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Even being just a vice-presidental debate, the outcome of the election can in a sense be decided, especially if Sarah Palin doesn't do well. But until it happens, noone can really say that she could not be a vice presidential candiate. She can actually give John McCain a shot in the arm and raise John McCain's ratings by a good performance. Many people claim that she lacks leadership, but being the maverick that John McCain is, he is staking his election on her ability to act as Vice President. She is an excellent debater, as proof when she won the Govornorship of Alaska. Her acceptance speech at the Republican Convention this year was also proof that she can handle her own. The question will be if she can answer questions accurately from Gwen Ifill, who is the moderator and managing editor of "Washington Week" on PBS.
Joe Biden, on the other hand has his tasks set for the evening. He should be directing his comments against John McCain, as he knows him well and likewise, Sarah Palin should direct statements against Barack Obama. Whoever wins the Presidential election on November 4th, will automatically take along their running mate as vice-president. So this debate should be about national and foreign policy, and directed against the Presidential Candidates. We will just have to see if Sarah Palin can hold her own during this debate. If she does not, John McCain can and will be further criticized and more and more people will insist that she step down as his running mate. That would be a disaster for McCain, as he then would be admitting making a critical wrong decision in the election. Only time will tell.
After this Vice-Presidential debate, there will be two more Presidential debates between John McCain and Barack Obama, the 2nd debate on October 7th in Nashville, Tennessee, and the final debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Just a little over 4 weeks to go before the general election on November 4th, 2008.

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