Joe Biden

WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden addressed an intimate crowd of Democratic donors Monday night at a private fund-raiser hosted by Senator John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, in their Georgetown home. In introducing Biden, Kerry quoted the vice president summing up the complexities of President Obama's first term: "Osama bin Laden is dead. General Motors is alive. " During his remarks, Biden bemoaned the partisan state of Congress, accused the Republican presidential candidates of not understanding the middle class, and touted the president's foreign...

Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday laced into the Republican Party and its presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, saying its Tea Party movement faction has blocked progress by President Obama while Romney wants to take the country back to recessionary practices. "They begin to sound like the horse that just won the Derby and the Preakness, ‘I'll Have Another,' " Biden told an audience at Keene State College. "Except the horse is a real winner. " Broadening his attack, the vice president said, "We will not go back to the '50s on social policy, to the Cold War on our...

When, during an appearance last weekend on "Meet the Press," Vice President Joe Biden credited the TV show "Will & Grace" for helping to change attitudes about homosexuality, no one was happier than Max Mutchnick , the show's creator and a big Biden fan. "The man is passionate and speaks his truth," said Mutchnick, an Emerson alum and trustee who was back at his alma mater Friday. "You don't usually get that sort of candor from a politician at that level. " After Biden made the comment, Mutchnick said he and co-creator David Kohan sent the VP a box set of the show...

Vice President Joe Biden is visiting New Hampshire again today as Democrats aggressively work the general election swing state, but the Republican National Committee plans to criticize the Obama-Biden ticket for failing to stem college cost increases as promised in 2008. New Hampshire is the state with the highest student loan debt level in the country . The average student graduates with $31,048 in loan debt. "The Class of 2012 is getting a rude awakening as they accept their diplomas and realize they can't find a job in Obama's economy," RNC Chairman...

While in town this week for fancy fund-raisers at the Fairmont Copley Plaza and Grill 23 - tickets for the events ranged from $500 to $35,800 - Joe Biden took time out to say hello to an old friend. As the VP's motorcade drove past Rowes Wharf, Biden spied Plaza Limousine owner Mike Gay , who used to drive the former Delaware senator when he was campaigning for president. Biden asked the Secret Service to stop, and he had agents ask Gay to come over to the car. Biden, who had called to check on Gay when he was recuperating recently from a serious health issue, chatted with his buddy for a while before...

WASHINGTON - As vice president, Joe Biden will oversee an Obama administration effort to find ways of building up the ranks of the middle class, that ambiguously defined segment of society most Americans identify with. The task force will include four Cabinet members as well as other presidential advisers, the Obama transition team announced yesterday. The goal is to recommend proposals to ensure the middle class is "no longer being left behind," Biden said. The proposals could include executive orders and legislative...

Of all of the things the public had gleefully expected from last night's vice presidential debate, substance was probably far down the list. But in an evening nearly free of gaffes, large or small, the biggest surprise was how much information Joe Biden and Sarah Palin managed to pack into an hour and a half. This debate was swimming in details - almost drowning in them at times, given how many related to specific bills, votes, and campaign comments, all seemingly culled from lists of partisan talking points.

NEW YORK - Late in their debate, Sarah Palin looked over at Joe Biden and channeled the memory of Ronald Reagan's famed putdown of Jimmy Carter in 1980. "There you go again," she said. Well, governor, we knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a friend of ours. And, governor, you're no Ronald Reagan. Debate moments destined to linger in memory beyond the current campaign, like that last paragraph's playful co-opting of Lloyd Bentsen's withering 1988 insult of Dan Quayle, have been missing this year with three down and one to go. The power of the Internet in the YouTube era...

WASHINGTON - A Senate Democratic leader said yesterday that the attorney general should appoint a special counsel to investigate the CIA's destruction of videotapes of interrogations of two suspected terrorists. Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, cited Michael Mukasey's refusal during confirmation hearings in October to describe waterboarding as torture. The US Justice Department and the CIA's internal watchdog announced Saturday they would conduct a joint inquiry into the...

Barney Frank is in love. This is not exactly news — he's getting married in July — but it's still striking, the way a congressman who has cultivated a reputation for prickliness can be so publicly, sweetly sentimental. "It's funny," Frank said last week, musing about his relationship with his fiance, Jim Ready. "I used to listen to these songs about love and . . . they didn't mean anything to me. I would almost be kind of annoyed by them, you know — it's like I was left out. The whole thing takes on a meaning it didn't have.

When, during an appearance last weekend on "Meet the Press," Vice President Joe Biden credited the TV show "Will & Grace" for helping to change attitudes about homosexuality, no one was happier than Max Mutchnick , the show's creator and a big Biden fan. "The man is passionate and speaks his truth," said Mutchnick, an Emerson alum and trustee who was back at his alma mater Friday. "You don't usually get that sort of candor from a politician at that level. " After Biden made the comment, Mutchnick said he and co-creator David Kohan sent the VP a box set of the show...

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden will make a campaign stop in Exeter, N.H, Thursday to promote the president's proposal that the wealthiest Americans pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. Biden will deliver his remarks at the Exeter Town Hall just days ahead of a Senate vote on what's called the Buffett Rule, named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett who has said he should not be paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. The legislation would seek to ensure that middle class families do...

WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden addressed an intimate crowd of Democratic donors Monday night at a private fund-raiser hosted by Senator John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, in their Georgetown home. In introducing Biden, Kerry quoted the vice president summing up the complexities of President Obama's first term: "Osama bin Laden is dead. General Motors is alive. " During his remarks, Biden bemoaned the partisan state of Congress, accused the Republican presidential candidates of not understanding the middle class, and touted the...

TILTON, N.H. – Mitt Romney, who has been criticized for months by top Democrats, said he woke up this morning surprised to learn that Vice President Joe Biden had attacked him in the Des Moines Register. "Someone had written an op-ed in the Des Moines Register attacking me and blaming me for the economy," Romney told voters at the Tilt'n Diner here. "I thought now, who would have the chutzpah – there you go – or the delusion to imagine that I was responsible for the decline of this economy over the last three years.

While in town this week for fancy fund-raisers at the Fairmont Copley Plaza and Grill 23 - tickets for the events ranged from $500 to $35,800 - Joe Biden took time out to say hello to an old friend. As the VP's motorcade drove past Rowes Wharf, Biden spied Plaza Limousine owner Mike Gay , who used to drive the former Delaware senator when he was campaigning for president. Biden asked the Secret Service to stop, and he had agents ask Gay to come over to the car. Biden, who had called to check on Gay when he was recuperating recently from a serious health issue, chatted with his buddy for a while...

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff Vice President Joe Biden was in Boston yesterday and talked about why he was rooting for the Red Sox. Here's the anecdote from the Globe's Shira Schoenberg on our Political Intelligence blog : Biden said his lead Secret Service man is from Boston. Before his plane landed, Biden said, "I said everyone bow their head. We're going to say a prayer that Boston wins the wild card spot. ... I'm worried if in fact they don't, he's going to be so damn miserable he will not jump in front of a bullet.

Vice President Joe Biden is headed back to New Hampshire. An official with President Barack Obama's re-election campaign says Biden will be in Keene on Tuesday. Tuesday's trip will be Biden's fourth trip to New Hampshire this year. Most recently, he spoke in Exeter last month.

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff Vice President Joe Biden was in Boston yesterday and talked about why he was rooting for the Red Sox. Here's the anecdote from the Globe's Shira Schoenberg on our Political Intelligence blog : Biden said his lead Secret Service man is from Boston. Before his plane landed, Biden said, "I said everyone bow their head. We're going to say a prayer that Boston wins the wild card spot. ... I'm worried if in fact they don't, he's going to be so damn miserable he will not jump in front of a bullet.

WASHINGTON - As vice president, Joe Biden will oversee an Obama administration effort to find ways of building up the ranks of the middle class, that ambiguously defined segment of society most Americans identify with. The task force will include four Cabinet members as well as other presidential advisers, the Obama transition team announced yesterday. The goal is to recommend proposals to ensure the middle class is "no longer being left behind," Biden said. The proposals could include executive orders and legislative plans.

NEW YORK - Late in their debate, Sarah Palin looked over at Joe Biden and channeled the memory of Ronald Reagan's famed putdown of Jimmy Carter in 1980. "There you go again," she said. Well, governor, we knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a friend of ours. And, governor, you're no Ronald Reagan. Debate moments destined to linger in memory beyond the current campaign, like that last paragraph's playful co-opting of Lloyd Bentsen's withering 1988 insult of Dan Quayle, have been missing this year with three down and one to go. The power of the Internet in the YouTube...