... VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:
… Talk about the audacity of hope. … President Obama does send his greetings, though. He can’t be here tonight -- because he’s busy getting ready for Easter. (Whisper):
He thinks it’s about him.
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“Axelrod really wanted me to do this on teleprompter -- but I told him I’m much better when I wing it. …
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… We are now two months into the Obama-Biden administration and the
President and I have become extremely close. To give you an idea of how
close we are, he told me that next year -- maybe, just maybe -- he’s going to give me his blackberry email address. …
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But
the Obama Administration really is a good team. I am the experienced
veteran. Rahm can be an enforcer. And Tim Geithner is always there when
you need to borrow money. And no questions asked.
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“Now
let’s see: we have a Republican speaker who was born in Austria, and
tonight’s Democratic speaker was born in Canada.... You know, I never
realized just how much power Dick Cheney had until my first day on the
job. I walked into my office, and you know how the outgoing president
always leaves the incoming president a note in his desk? I opened my
drawer and Dick Cheney had left me Barack Obama’s birth certificate …
Source: http://www.politico.com/playbook/0309/playbook624.html
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BORN IN THE USA?
Biden jokes about Obama's birth certificate at dinner
Says Cheney left copy of document in vice presidential desk
Posted: March 22, 2009. 12:45 pm Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Vice President Joe Biden |
WASHINGTON
– While the subject of Barack Obama's birth certificate is still a
topic most press outlets refuse to cover, it became a matter of sport
in Joe Biden's Gridiron Dinner address this weekend.
After
mentioning one of the Republican speakers for the evening, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, was born in Austria and that one of the Democratic
speakers, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, was born in Canada, Biden chortled: "Folks, this is going to be Lou Dobbs' worst nightmare.
From there, Biden transitioned to the birth certificate controversy.
Source: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92558