Politico.com reports that Joe Biden plans to “limit the role of vice president” to what it supposedly was before the Bush-Cheney White House: Dialing back his predecessor’s expansive view of the office, Vice President-elect Joe Biden plans on “restoring the Office of the Vice President to its historical role” as adviser to the president and [...]

When Barack Obama and Joe Biden first hit the campaign trail, it seemed the two were Best Friends Forever. Every picture showed them laughing, patting each other on the back, whispering and cheery. Michelle and Jill were hugging on Entertainment television and complimenting each other. “Every major decision he’ll be making, I’ll be sitting in [...]

Politico is reporting that Barack Obama’s administration will likely use Joe Biden as the “good cop” to offset Rahm Emanuel’s “bad cop” role: The Democrats’ apparent failure to win the 60 Senate seats necessary to halt a GOP filibuster has created the need for inter-party ambassadors like Biden who are practiced at the art of [...]

You all know I’m not a fan of Sarah Palin, but the following is beyond the pale and I actually feel the need to defend the woman. Watch and squirm… Listen, I don’t buy for a second that she didn’t know which countries are in NAFTA or that Africa is a continent, not a country. [...]

The war is beginning behinds the scenes between the Palin people and the McCain people, and it looks like they’re trying to hit the Alaskan Governor right where it hurts: her authenticity. From Newsweek: NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting [...]

He has endorsed McCain for President, but when asked if Palin is ready, the former Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush said the following… “Look, of course not. I don’t think at the moment she is prepared to take over the reins of the presidency. I can name for you any number of other [...]

I’m sorry folks, but the following argument is RIDICULOUS and I can’t believe it’s coming out of the mouth of somebody so close to the presidency…much less the Governor of one of our states. I mean…WTF? Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. [...]

What’s all this furor? With barely a week to go, Sarah Palin has become the CNN scapegoat for McCain’s impending doom. CNN’s Rick Sanchez attempted another “Gotcha” moment yesterday afternoon as he tried to catch Palin disagreeing with Boss McCain on Ted Stevens; but before he could assess her first statement about the “sad day [...]

Not exactly a vote of confidence… I wonder if he knows about this.

Airfare for your kids to fly around to events on the taxpayers’ dime: $21,012 Designer clothes for your botched Vice Presidential roll out: $150,000 Destroying McCain’s chances to become President: Priceless Yeah, she’s got a shot. Sure…….

More polls continue to state the obvious: the Palin pick is destroying McCain’s chances. From MSNBC: That doesn’t appear to be the case with McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin. Fifty-five percent of respondents say she’s not qualified to serve as president if the need arises, up five points from the previous poll. In addition, for [...]

Earlier in the year, Palin was famously quoted as saying the following… Sure, she was just kidding. Fair enough. Then how does she explain this… Folks, all the VP does is break ties in the Senate and be ready to be President if the need arises. Those are basically the VP’s two jobs. What Palin [...]

As we reach the final few weeks of the election season, it’s time for the running mates to pick several key messages, stick to those messages and avoid any major gaffes. They both need to ramp up their enthusiasm, appeal to the bases and point out the major differences between the two campaigns. The campaign [...]

Hi, Jennn here from Vicepresidents.com! I just wanted to let you guys know that we’re posting photos, videos, quotes and campaign itineraries at our site. As you can imagine, the campaign trail is getting more and more grueling as we enter the final weeks, with Joe Biden and Sarah Palin often traversing several states in [...]

In a time like this, what kind of message are you sending to the American people when you’ll go on NBC’s comedy show, but you refuse to be interviewed by NBC’s journalists? Still, I suppose this is somehow ironically appropriate given the seriousness of her as a VP pick. From NY Post: SOCCER moms and [...]

During the Vice Presidential Debate on Thursday night, Senator Joe Biden had this to say about John McCain’s health care plan: … do you know how John McCain pays for his $5,000 tax credit you’re going to get, a family will get? He taxes as income every one of you out there, every one of [...]

So far, not one poll I’ve seen has shown Palin winning. Well, except for the non-scientific online polls which anybody can game if they know how delete cookies from their browser. So who thought what? Obama supporters favored Biden by an 81% to 3% margin. McCain voters declared Palin the victor 76% to 5%. Government [...]

If you’re interested in seeing where the vice-presidential candidates stretched the truth or just down-right fibbed, the AP has good coverage. Unsurprisingly, both Sarah Palin and Joe Biden managed to squeeze in some deceptions. Isn’t it sad that a whole “fact check” industry has to exist because our politicians simply can’t stop spewing half-truths and [...]

They started off amicably enough. “Can I call you Joe?” were Sarah Palin’s first words. Similarly, “Pleasure to be with you, to meet you,” Joe Biden began. Joe called her “Governor Palin,” while Sarah called him “Senator Biden.” They kept the tone deflected away from each other by focusing on Obama/McCain and cherry-picking points to [...]

Frank Luntz talks to undecideds… I heard a lot of people in that segment who had really low expectations of her going into this, but fair enough…there’s at least one group who thought she bested Biden. Again, I think all of those folks who thought she’d implode were really fooling themselves. I watched a debate [...]