Morality is not determined by the church you attend nor the faith you embrace. It is determined by the quality of your character and the positive impact you have on those you meet along your journey
Okay so first a little back story courtesy of WaPo:
“A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, ‘I can grab a woman anywhere, and she likes it,’ ” Biden said during a speech at the University of Miami, according to ABC News. “They asked me if I’d like to debate this gentleman, and I said ‘no.’ I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.’ ”
“I’ve been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life,” Biden continued. “I’m a pretty [darn] good athlete. Any guy that talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room.”
Biden's remarks were made during the University of Miami’s “It’s On Us” rally, a gathering which discussed sexual assault and gender based violence.
So as you can imagine they were well received.
Now to be totally honest I get where Uncle Joe is coming from, in my high school days Donald Trump would have been EXACTLY the kind of pompous bullying windbag that I would have targeted.
But that was high school, and keep in mind that Biden is referring to an incident that would have only happened in high school if the two had crossed paths way back when.
Trump on the other hand is all about the here and now:
Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!
Once again Biden is not threatening anybody. He is talking about a possibility that never presented itself, and venting some frustration about the way that Trump treats women.
However, and I just have to add this, if there were to be a physical confrontation between today's Donald Trump and today's Joe Biden, I do not think many bets would be placed on a Trump victory.
The man has french fry grease running through his veins, can barely walk a 100 feet unassisted, and if he were to make a fist his heart would likely explode.
I think the only way that Trump could win a fight like this is by using the same technique he used to impregnate Melania, lying on top of her until she was too exhausted to push him off, until she finally gave up told him "Fine you win."
Okay so that was one bizarre tweet from Tangerine Hitler this morning, this was the other one.
Remember when they were saying, during the campaign, that Donald Trump is giving great speeches and drawing big crowds, but he is spending much less money and not using social media as well as Crooked Hillary’s large and highly sophisticated staff. Well, not saying that anymore!
So did you notice that Trump left the final "s" off of Jeff Sessions' name?
Well so did he, about ten minutes later, so he simply removed it and then reposted the same unhinged tweet with a correction.
Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren’t they the subject of the investigation? Why didn’t Obama do something about the meddling? Why aren’t Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Sessions!
So if I understand this correctly Trump wants to know why the Justice Department is not investigating the Obama Administration, who started these investigations in the first place, for not doing more to stop the interference that helped him to win the White House?
Well, perhaps he should ask Mitch McConnell that last question.
Joe Biden said Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped the Obama administration from speaking out about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign by refusing to sign on to a bipartisan statement of condemnation.
That moment, the former Democratic vice president said, made him think “the die had been cast ... this was all about the political play.”
Now if Trump thinks the Justice Department should investigate why Mitch McConnell obstructed Obama's efforts to warn the American people, well I think we are all on board with that.
As everyone else avoids directly addressing what is going on with Donald Trump and Russia, former Vice President Joe Biden just doesn’t seem to feel the need to mince words.
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked Biden on Thursday why Trump was “so reluctant to take on Vladimir Putin” — and she got an answer she probably was not expecting.
“Look, you know, I want to give every American, including the president, the benefit of the doubt, but I can’t fathom any reason other than he is concerned of what Putin might say or do, or what information he may or may not have,” Biden said, adding that the Trump administration was not making a sufficient effort to prevent Russia from again interfering in our elections.
“But look, unrelated to the whole issue of whether or not there’s collusion, separate and apart from all that, it’s necessary for us to stem this problem,” he told Mitchell. “It’s necessary for us to corral the Russians.”
Leave it to Joe "This is a big fucking deal" Biden to come right out and say what so many of us know to be true.
Yes, Donald Trump is an asset for the Kremlin.
And EVERY American, without regard to party affiliation or ideology, should be demanding that he be removed from office.
I would also add that any American NOT calling for that is essentially a traitor to their country, and that includes every Republican in Washington working to undermine the FBI or to obstruct the Mueller investigation.
Joe Biden said Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped the Obama administration from speaking out about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign by refusing to sign on to a bipartisan statement of condemnation.
That moment, the former Democratic vice president said, made him think “the die had been cast ... this was all about the political play.”
He expressed regret, in hindsight, given the intelligence he says came in after Election Day. "Had we known what we knew three weeks later, we may have done something more,” Biden, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, said.
Biden was speaking at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, a block from his old office at the Old Executive Office Building, to discuss his new article in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, “How to Stand Up to the Kremlin.”
As you might expect McConnell disagrees strongly with this characterization of eventts.
However I reported this exact same event back in December of 2016:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is rejecting bipartisan calls for a special committee to investigate Russian interference in the U.S. election, which American intelligence says was aimed in part at helping Republican Donald Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
What's more a former Obama White House staff echoed Biden's version of events:
“Our administration's interest in making sure the response was bipartisan wasn't for the sake of being bipartisan. It was necessary because we needed the buy-in from state and local election administrators (many of whom were Republican partisans and/or skeptical of federal government),” the official argued in an email. “Unfortunately, as is well documented, Senator McConnell was unwilling to help — only making matters worse.”
Let's face it Mitch McConnell does not care about protecting American election integrity just so long as the meddling benefits his party's candidate.
In emotional moment on @TheView, Joe Biden consoles Meghan McCain, whose father was diagnosed with same cancer Biden's late son Beau had. "There is hope. And if anybody can make it, your dad [can]." pic.twitter.com/tQUy11X5sV
I am by no means a big fan of Meghan McCain, but she is a human being, and she is suffering.
Joe Biden demonstrates such abundant humanity in how he interacts with her, and his ability to even make her laugh while she is falling apart on national televisions speaks highly of the kind of heart our former Vice President possesses.
When Joe and Barack ran our country we were in many ways the best we have ever been.
They embodied the type of decency that we are sorely lacking these days.
I miss them both, and know that whenever I share a story about what either one of them is up to these days that it will be both uplifting and hopeful.
I saw this yesterday on Twitter and it just made me feel good again, for a little while.
We were so blessed once, I just wish we had taken the time to enjoy it more.
I read an interview with Biden recently where he said that all of those Obama-Biden memes on the internet are all true. Not literally of course, but they reflected the relationship that he had with his boss and best friend.
By now most of you have probably heard something about Donna Brazile's new book which makes the explosive allegation that the Hillary Clinton campaign made a deal with the DNC to bail them out financially in exchange for essentially commandeering the primary process.
I have not written anything about this before, because to be honest I was not sure exactly what was going on.
I read the initial article in Politico and felt that the evidence provided did not really support the allegations that Brazile was making.
And I think my initial hesitancy to accept the validity of these charges was warranted.
The Democratic National Committee struck a deal with Hillary Clinton in 2015 that gave her campaign input on some party hiring and spending decisions, but required they be related only to preparations for the general election, according to a memo obtained by NBC News. It also left the door open for other candidates to make similar arrangements.
The document provides more context to the explosive claims made by former DNC Interim Chair Donna Brazile in a forthcoming book, an excerpt of which was published this week.
The August 26, 2015, memorandum of understanding from Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook to DNC CEO Amy Dacey details the relationship between Clinton's campaign and the DNC long before she won her party's nomination.
Essentially the Clinton campaign offered up an initial 1.2 million up front and then offered to provide a monthly allowance as well as some additional funding moving forward.
However since the DNC had clearly mismanaged its funds the Clinton campaign wanted a say in how the money was spent. Which if you think about it makes pretty good sense.
But here is what was laid out in the memo that seems to have upset Donna Brazile so thoroughly:
However, the memo also made clear that the arrangement pertained to only the general election, not the primary season, and it left open the possibility that it would sign similar agreements with other candidates.
"Nothing in this agreement shall be construed to violate the DNC's obligation of impartiality and neutrality through the Nominating process. All activities performed under this agreement will be focused exclusively on preparations for the General Election and not the Democratic Primary," the memo states.
"Further we understand you may enter into similar agreements with other candidates," it continues.
In fact the DNC did enter into a similar agreement with the Sanders campaign, but they decided not to use it as they felt they could do better on their own encouraging smaller donations from their pool of supporters.
The contention is that this agreement allowed the Clinton campaign to have a say on who the DNC hired, and how some of the money was spent, which Brazile charges gave them undo influence.
The evidence that such influence took place appears to be mostly in Brazile's head, but her allegation received some support when Elizabeth Warren chimed in with this.
Seriously?
Well that certainly complicated things, because Warren makes it much harder to simply dismiss this as a DNC operative gone rogue.
Brazile writes that she considered a dozen combinations to replace the nominees and settled on Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), the duo she felt most certain would win over enough working-class voters to defeat Republican Donald Trump. But then, she writes, “I thought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her. I could not do this to them.”
Well gee how gracious of Brazile to allow the Democrats to keep the candidate that they had selected on the ticket.
We were shocked to learn the news that Donna Brazile actively considered overturning the will of the Democratic voters by attempting to replace Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine as the Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees. It is particularly troubling and puzzling that she would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled propaganda, spread by both the Russians and our opponent, about our candidate’s health.
Donna came in to take over the DNC at a very difficult time. We were grateful to her for doing so. She is a longtime friend and colleague of many of us and has been an important leader in our party. But we do not recognize the campaign she portrays in the book.
That is from a letter signed by nearly 100 campaign staffers who certainly do not agree with Brazile's interpretation of their efforts.
A number of pundits have offered opinions on what motivated Brazile to set fire to so many bridges, she was frustrated by not getting the recognition she felt she deserved, she is positioning herself to have a place on the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign, who knows?
All I know is that anything that allows Trump to tweet stuff like this...
Bernie Sanders supporters have every right to be apoplectic of the complete theft of the Dem primary by Crooked Hillary!
I realize that I will NEVER convince those Bernie supporters that the nomination was not stolen from them, especially after this.
However keep in mind that the Republicans are seriously concerned about their ability to win elections moving forward, and their only real hope lies with the Democrats sabotaging themselves with infighting and rampant mistrust within their ranks.
Donna Brazile just gave them an early Christmas present all wrapped up in a shiny bow.
So I hope her fucking book tanks, and she never finds a job working with any Democrats ever again.
I assume at some point we will see her on Fox News, where all progressive traitors seem to eventually find themselves.
And good riddance to her.
Update: Donna Brazile now says she found "no evidence" that the primaries were rigged in Hillary's favor.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday that closing borders won't create future jobs because what's changing industries like manufacturing are automation and artificial intelligence.
Obama told a Toronto luncheon on Friday that the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy happened over the course of 150 years, but that the technological revolution is happening in 20 years. He said it's hard for governments to catch up to the pace of disruption.
Obama said over the next 25 years, advanced economies will have to confront the fact that there is not going to be enough high-paying full-time work as we traditionally conceive it.
"You'll still see auto companies doing pretty well and you'll see us manufacturing the goods that we use in the United States or Canada, but you'll walk through those factories and they'll be empty because they'll be run by robots and AI," Obama said.
"The biggest challenge that we face in terms of maintaining good manufacturing jobs in our countries come from automation, and that is going to accelerate."
After the speech at the $1,000 a plate gathering attendees were asked their impression of the former American President:
"He still has this incredible optimism about Canada, the U.S., the world, in spite of how challenging our times are right now. It's very good for us to hear that," Glenda Rissman said.
Sharing a similar sentiment, Cynthia Dale said her "first takeaway is how inspiring it was and how ludicrously humble he is. He's so humble about what he did and what he continues to do."
One group of Canadian high school kids even skipped school to see him:
A group of high school students skipped class to see the former president.
It was "an experience you can't get in school," Abby Mcclellan said.
Ava De Pagter said she loves just "what he stands for; everyone should be equal. No matter the race or gender."
Yes, he is in fact one of a kind.
And we were blessed that we had him for as long as we did.
Missing the infamous bromance that is former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden? The justice fighting dynamic duo has joined forces in a new show titled “Barry & Joe: The Animated Series”, created by director and writer Adam Reid.
In the trailer of the adult animated sci-fi sitcom, Obama and Biden travel back in time after the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, with the mission to alter the course of history and save the future.
Barry and Joe, as they are affectionately called in the series, are guided through history's ups and downs by present day astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson appears in the form of an augmented reality that only they can see.
I actually stopped watching cartoons when I was a kid.....when I stopped going to college.....okay last year. But I would TOTALLY watch every episode of this just to get a little of that sweet Obama/Biden magic back again.
God they were magnificent together, weren't they?
What? Are you saying you can hardly remember that?
Well sit back and enjoy the awesomeness of the Obama-Biden bromance.
"I left a Kenyan passport in your desk, just to fuck with him" "Joe" "Oh and a prayer rug in your bedroom. He's gonna lose it!" "Dammit Joe" pic.twitter.com/mEWo91OLuA
Obama: Did you replace all the toiletries with travel size bottles? Biden: He's got tiny hands Barack, I want him to feel welcome here pic.twitter.com/e7NRIZ43Ww
Biden: I just don't see what's wrong with a friendly bipartisan message Obama: Joe, you spray painted "Tiny Hands Bitch" on the White House pic.twitter.com/ueiUTuZIlN
Biden: Ideally I'd like to include traps from all of the Home Alone movies, but we've only got two months so the Home Alone 2 plan is fine pic.twitter.com/iFkkJNmkvl
"Yes Mr. Trump, I took Joe's pocket knife away and we'll get you some new tires for that limo right away, but I can't make him say sorry" pic.twitter.com/wULtfJqu85
Biden: Hillary was saying they took the W's off the keyboards when Bush won! Obama: Joe put- Biden: I TOOK THE T'S, THEY CAN ONLY TYPE RUMP pic.twitter.com/D6Vh7Zu429
Actually Palin kind of makes a good point as the only other female VP candidate, Geraldine Ferraro, ALSO had to stand during her debate in 1984.
However I would remind Palin that she was not the only one to stand during that 2008 VP debate.
And Biden was twenty years her senior, so imagine how hard that was on his old man legs.
Having said that I think we all know that the most likely reason for Palin and Biden being forced to stand during the debate was because Palin had essentially run on her youth and attractiveness so the network realized that more viewers would tune in to get a look at her ass than they would to hear that screechy voice of hers.
Courtesy of The Independent: Joe Biden has been enjoying himself recently. As well as filming an episode of Law & Order last week, the vice president also took on the honourable duty of marrying two White House officials. On their request, he officiated for Brian Mosteller, the director of Oval Office operations, and Joe Mashie, a trip coordinator for Michelle Obama, at his Washington home.
Damn, just when you think Joe Biden cannot get any cooler.
Tim Kaine is really going to have to up his game if he wants to fill those vice presidential shoes.
Tonight's speakers include Jesse Jackson, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, Martin O'Malley, Jerry Brown, Chris Murphy, actress Sigourney Weaver (I love her.), Gabby Giffords, Sherrod Brown, Michael Bloomberg, Tim Kaine, and of course President Obama to close out the night.
I am not expecting any huge surprises or disruptions tonight but it should be quite entertaining.
After all it features one of the greatest President's in our lifetime.
Apparently yesterday Andrew Sullivan, a longtime critic of Hillary Clinton, had already reached that decision as well:
Some readers think I’ve been too negative, even cynical, tonight. Believe me, I am utterly uncynical about this election. I’m worried sick. We need to put behind us any lingering beefs, any grudges, any memories from the past – and you know how I feel about the Clintons’ past – in order to save liberal democracy. The only thing between him and us is her. So – against all my previous emphatic denials – I’m with her now. As passionately as I ever was with Obama. For his legacy is at stake as well.
Vice President Biden says Bernie Sanders will endorse his Democratic primary opponent, Hillary Clinton.
"I've talked to Bernie, Bernie's going to endorse her, this is going to work out," Biden said in an interview with NPR's "Weekend Edition" to air Sunday. "The Democrats are coalescing even before this occurs."
The first thing that happened was that a Sanders' spokesman refused to confirm or deny Biden's claim.
The next thing that happened is that Sanders did an interview with Chris Hayes on MSNBC where he was asked about it:
“I talked to Joe, I think it was three weeks ago,” Sanders told MSNBC host Chris Hayes. “On that issue, we are trying to work with Secretary Clinton’s campaign on areas that we can agree on.”
“We are working with the Clinton campaign, trying to be able to come forward and say to my supporters, ‘Here’s the progress that we have made,'” Sanders said, adding, “I hope that we can meet that goal. We are not there at this moment.”
As you can see Sanders is still giving the impression that Clinton has to jump through his flaming hoops before he will give in and endorse her.
However Biden says the deal is already done.
Now you can lob a number of criticism at Vice President Biden, he's a little too handsy, he tells long boring stories, but one thing you cannot say about him is that he is a liar.
If anything Joe Biden might be a little TOO honest.
In other words if VP Biden says he received confirmation from Sanders that he is going to endorse Hillary Clinton, then by god Sanders told him that he is going to endorse Clinton. Period.
So why is Sanders still acting like the coy high school girl in the prom dress acting as if she is not sure she wants to "go all the way tonight" when her friends know full well that she has a roll condoms and a Barry White album in her purse?
Simple. The minute that Sanders admits that it's all over and he no longer has any more leverage to use at the convention, his supporters, especially the broke ones who are begging for money to help them get to Philadelphia, will disappear in a cloud of pot smoke and that will be it.
And if that happened then stuff like this would come to a halt:
120 people, including 104 donors to Bernie Sanders’ campaign, have sued embattled Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and breach of fiduciary duty, among other claims, alleging that Wasserman Schultz favored Hillary Clinton and misled DNC and Sanders donors into believing she was impartial.
Yeah there's a lawsuit doomed to fail.
Oh and there is also this kind of thing:
Yep, hard to make plans to attend Sanders' inauguration once he concedes and endorses Hillary Clinton now isn't it?
So go ahead Bernie-bots you tell me how I'M the one who doesn't get it, or that I'm a shill for Hillary, or that I simply don't understand that Bernie Sanders has changed politics in this country.
No I get it just fine, I have even seen all of this before, on the GOP side.
Joe Biden took months to decide he wouldn’t run for president — but he was sold on Elizabeth Warren as his running mate from the start, people familiar with the situation told POLITICO.
And he still thinks the Massachusetts firebrand would be Hillary Clinton’s best choice to replace him as the nation’s No. 2 in January 2017.
Biden, a stalwart Democrat who has veered leftward in recent years — but, as a centrist senator, voted to scuttle the Glass-Steagall prohibitions on banks engaging in speculative investments — favored Warren because he needed a partner to capture the wave of anti-bank, anti-establishment anger raging to his left.
Warren, a freshman senator from Massachusetts, who supports breaking up the big banks and re-imposing 1930s-era Wall Street regulations to prevent another global financial crisis, was Biden’s “only real choice,” according to an official he spoke to at the time.
The article goes on to say that while Warren was not displeased to be asked, she told Biden that he would be unable to run to Clinton's left as he had essentially the same baggage.
Now I would like to take a moment to point out to the many naysayers out there that the sitting Democratic Vice President agrees with me that Warren needs to be Hillary Clinton's running mate. So what do you say to that?
Warren is exactly what Hillary needs to give her that anti-Wall Street cred, Warren is already slapping the crap out of Trump on Twitter, and now the guy who seems to always be a few steps ahead of his fellow Democrats is saying that she is Clinton's obvious choice.
Vice President Joe Biden today predicted that Hillary Clinton will be his party's presidential nominee, even though the Democratic primary is still underway.
“I feel confident that Hillary will be the nominee, and I feel confident she’ll be the next president,” Biden said in an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts.
There have been a lot of reports of friction between Biden and Hillary, but he's no dummy, and let's face it the math is the math.
Of course Hillary is going to be the nominee.
However in order to win the presidency it depends on Democrats getting off their asses and making that happen.
In his speech Tuesday commemorating the designation of a new national monument honoring women's equality, President Barack Obama said he looked forward to the day when future visitors to the Washington, D.C., site would be "astonished" that at one point in time, a woman had never been president.
“I want young girls and boys to come here 10, 20, 100 years from now to know that women fought for equality, it was not just given to them. I want them to come here and be astonished there was ever a time when women could not vote," Obama said during his remarks at the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument, which served as the headquarters of the National Woman's Party since 1929.
"I want them to be astonished that there was ever a time when women earned less than men for doing the same work."
"I want them to be astonished that there was ever a time when women were vastly outnumbered in the boardroom or in Congress, that there was ever a time when a woman had never sat in the Oval Office," he remarked.
Hold on. The President wants young girls and boys who some to the monument in 10 or 20 years to be astonished that there was ever a time when a woman had never sat in the Oval Office?
Because the only way for that to seem unremarkable is if we were to actually elect a female president in the very near future, and the only woman poised to meet that criteria is Hillary Clinton.
And this follows closely on the heels of this comment from Joe Biden:
"This country’s ready for a woman," Biden said. "There’s no problem. We’re gonna be able to elect a woman in this country. I would like to see a woman elected.”
Now the Vice President also claimed that neither he nor the President were going to endorse any candidates, but I guess that doesn't mean they're not going to drop hints like crazy up until the nomination now does it?
