Joe Biden

5 Things For Friday, January 13, 2017

... Department and the FBI handled the probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server. (The inspector general is the Justice Department's internal watchdog.) You can expect FBI Director James Comey to face questions again about why he revived the case less than two weeks before the election. Some Democrats are convinced that's why Clinton lost. 2. US and Cuba. " Wet foot, dry foot " is no more. President Obama ended the policy, which sent back Cubans who tried to enter the US by sea but allowed those who reach land to stay. Cuba said the policy encouraged people to make the dangerous journey to Florida. Immigrants from other nations said it was preferential treatment for one group. Critics of Obama's move, like Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, say it'll only "tighten the noose" of the Castro regime around the neck of the Cuban people. Read More. 3. Confirmation hearings. Looks like retired Gen. James Mattis is in good shape to be the ...

President Obama Awards Joe Biden Presidential Medal Of Freedom

... the stage tonight and find himself wishing he were anywhere else. I mean, god be good to him, as my gran' used to say, but Joe Biden actually likes all these silly performance pieces in which we insist he be engaged in order to stay vice-president. He revels in them. He would do ten of them a day, if he could. When I consider Joe Biden, and I look at the enthusiasm with which he throws himself into the various cataracts and torrents of hogwash that constitute our politics these days, I find myself looking at him the way I look at people who sky-dive or drive in demolition derbies. I have no idea why they do what they do, and I have absolutely no intention of doing it myself, ever, but, goddamn, do those people look like they're having fun. Most Popular. His performance that night—the great "malarkey!" debate—helped save the president's second term, too. So good on the president for what he did on Thursday, and for the gracious speech Biden gave in response, rocking the Seamus Heaney like a grateful ...

President Obama Surprises Joe Biden With Medal Of Freedom

... Not surprised. Obama likes criminals, he is one of them. Luckily everything Obama did will be erased. Like he never existed. Mrs. Freeze. That was really touching. I’ll miss these guys. Mrs. Freeze. Full o’ shit as always. They are both so lovely. :). They are both so lovely. :). Mrs. Freeze. Hey Joy ;). Maria M. They are giving medals to one another! It doesn’t get more pathetic than that! My God, I am so happy we won’t have to see their ugly mugs ever again after 20 th. Hey Freezy! : D hughug. Esoteric 11. Yep, Dow is Trumpster. He is always on here twisting thing around and lying. I think he has serious mental issues. You’re an idiot. Learn some history. And enjoy Trump’s handsome face. *bleeeeeurgh*. A presidential bromance. I love it. A presidential bromance. I love it. I am Evelyn Salt. It was a beautiful moment. One we won’t see for another four years. Hopefully, only four years. I am Evelyn Salt. It was a beautiful moment. One we won’t see for another four years. Hopefully, only four ...

Obama Surprises Joe Biden With The Presidential Medal Of Freedom

... or kill Osama bin Laden in 2011. Biden also helped oversee the president’s first-term economic stimulus package and pressed unsuccessfully for gun-control legislation after the killing of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. 1 of 15. Buy Photo. Wait 1 second to continue. Obama embraced a common Biden tactic in his remarks by including a quote from an Irish poet and words of wisdom from the vice president’s parents. The president also spoke of their friendship forged through tough times and tragedy. In 2015, Beau Biden, the vice president’s son, died of brain cancer, and Obama delivered the eulogy at his funeral. Biden’s first wife and daughter were killed in a 1972 car crash shortly after he was first elected to the Senate. That tragedy has been a key feature of Biden’s political identity, and much of Obama’s remarks focused on the vice president’s compassion for his fellow Americans. “When Joe talks about hope and opportunity ...

Joe Biden Is A Hero Among Women's Rights Groups. But It Wasn't Always That Way

... on college campuses. Those achievements, among others, were no small reason he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Thursday, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Biden touted his role in elevating the seriousness and pervasiveness of sexual harassment in a September 2015 speech, noting that his work dated as far back as 1991: “During the Clarence Thomas hearings, one of the things that emerged was the issue of sexual harassment. It was the thing that no one wanted to touch. I remember saying to my colleagues, ‘ This is so much bigger than a single judge.’”. Advocates say Biden is now one of their strongest champions on issues of violence against women. But they remember a different, more complicated story of Thomas’ confirmation hearings, where Biden played a less heroic role. As the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in October 1991, Biden was essentially the last line of ...

Steven Mcdonald, James Comey, Joe Biden

... expected to vote to adopt a House-Senate measure that will make it easier to gut Obamacare. Get the top headlines of the day in your morning briefing from NBC 4 New York, Monday through Friday. Sign up for our newsletter here. *This daily briefing will be off Monday, returning Tuesday, Jan. 17. Hero NYPD Detective Mourned. A bullet stole NYPD Det. Steven Mc Donald’s ability to feel most of his body, but it didn't take away the kindness in his heart. The third-generation police officer, who died this week, forgave the man who pulled the trigger 30 years ago and became a messenger of peace, inspiring people across the globe. He will be remembered today at a funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The funeral starts at 9:30 a.m. Watchdog to Probe FBI Actions. In yet another aftershock from the ...

Would The Onion’s Diamond Joe Biden Support Trump

... school, and one of the students went and picked me up a shirt. I also was hooked up with all these terrible metal bands—dubbed cassettes, like, Krokus and things like that that are pretty deep cuts. Autograph, Slayer. We are, I think, the exact same age. And I remember that milieu. And I also remember that when you grow up in that age, not only did you have to insist that Ratt was more than a one-hit wonder or even a one-hit wonder, you had to say, “And they’re better than this crappy music by Prince.”. I always had a soft spot for Prince. But there’s a lot of dudes with jean jackets that had used a marker and drawn the Def Leppard logo as best they could on the back of them, and they wore those jackets every single day in class. So I had sat around those kids, and maybe I had some things in common with them. Do you remember an argument you may have had with the staff, where one was saying, “No, I think our Biden would do this,” and the other would say, “No, I don’t think our Biden would do that”. I think the original headline for the Trans Am was that he crashed it into the White House. But then we thought we should ...