Archive for August 23rd, 2008
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Today on the presidential campaign trail (AP)
AP – Obama introduces running mate Biden, No. 2 immediately criticizes McCain, GOP … Some Clinton supporters like Biden as VP; others see selection as a slight to Clinton … After decades together in the Senate, McCain and Biden remain friends if political rivals -
Indictments to stand against DeLay associates (AP)
AP – An appeals court has declined to throw out money-laundering indictments against two of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s political operatives, who had claimed that state elections law used to charge them was too confusing to proceed.
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Media circus arrives for Democratic Convention (AFP)
AFP – More than 15,000 journalists are descending on the Rockies for the Democratic Party’s convention even if the outcome — Barack Obama’s coronation as presidential nominee — is in no doubt. -
Statement on Federal Disaster Assistance for Florida
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Florida and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by Tropical Storm Fay beginning on August 18, 2008, and continuing.
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Biden’s career provides grist for rival
In August 2007, three men who later became entangled in a Mississippi bribery scheme raised money for Sen. Joe Biden’s run for president. -
Biden got Obama call during wife’s root canal (AP)
AP – Joe Biden got the call from Barack Obama while accompanying his wife as she was getting a root canal. -
NYT: Biden’s philosophy of diplomacy first
Should Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. be elected vice president, he would have a role that has eluded him: a seat in the inner sanctum of White House decision-making. -
Obama introduces Biden as running mate
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama introduced Sen. Joe Biden to the nation as his running mate Saturday, telling supporters that he is “a leader who is ready to step in and be president.”
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Analysis: Biden fills attack role (AP)
AP – Barack Obama says Joe Biden is ready to step in as president. He’s not bad in the role of attack dog, either, wasting no time gnawing at GOP rival John McCain. -
Analysis: Biden gives Obama old-school cred
Sen. Barack Obama’s choice of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate raises the question of whether Obama can carry off his message of change with a seasoned Washington politician by his side.
