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Joe Biden

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Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States, having taken office on January 20, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Vice President under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017. Biden has focused on various key issues during his presidency, including economic recovery, healthcare, and climate change. His administration has emphasized 'Bidenomics,' which aims to address inflation and promote economic growth.

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Oct 2, 2008

Dick Cheney the most dangerous vice president in American history.

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Oct 2, 2008

I know what it's like to have a child you're not sure is going to make it.

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Oct 2, 2008

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised.

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Oct 2, 2008

Because I'm a man, I don't know what it's like to raise two kids alone. I know what it's like to have a child and not sure he is going to make it, I understand.

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Oct 1, 2008

Barack Obama and I agree fully and completely on one thing. You have to have a timeline to draw down the troops and shift responsibility to the Iraqis. We're spending $10 billion a month while the Iraqis have an $80 billion surplus. Barack…

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Oct 1, 2008

Joe Biden kept coming back to the economic issues, and he kept laying out no, this is the real John McCain.

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Oct 1, 2008

I think it's neither the best or worst of Washington, but it's evidence of the fact that the economic policies of the last eight years have been the worst economic policies we've ever had.

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Oct 1, 2008

This is the most important election you've ever voted in your entire life.

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Oct 1, 2008

Well, that's what I've done my whole career, Gwen, on very, very controversial issues... But am I able to respond to -- are we able to stay on the -- on the topic?

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Sep 30, 2008

Lives are at stake. I -- and I knew the right political vote. But I tell you what, some things are worth losing elections over.

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Sep 30, 2008

Because I think it's as close to a consensus that can exist in a -- in a society as heterogeneous as ours. What does it say? It says in the first three months that decision should be left to the woman.

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Sep 30, 2008

If you want to know where al Qaeda lives, if you want to know where bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me.

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Sep 30, 2008

Lives were at stake. I knew the right political vote. But I'll tell you what some things are worth losing elections over.

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Sep 30, 2008

Because I think it is as close to a consensus that can exist in a society as heterogeneous as ours.

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Sep 25, 2008

What I did hear Barack Obama say, was in order to get the economy moving again, we've got to deal with reinstating the middle class so they can have money to spend.

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Sep 25, 2008

John doesn't even know the difference between strategy and tactic and he's trying to lecture Barack.

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Sep 25, 2008

The mainstream wants to end the war in Iraq, let the Iraqis spend their $79 billion, not just have John continue to spend $10 billion a month.

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Sep 25, 2008

Hey, look, who was right and who was wrong? John McCain was dead wrong on the war, John McCain's been dead wrong in Afghanistan, John McCain's been dead wrong in his judgment supporting Bush's shredding national regulations to control Wall…

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Sep 25, 2008

As the old Ronald Reagan said, if you like the last eight years, then John McCain showed you, you should stick with him.

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Sep 24, 2008

Where was John a week ago? Where was John a month ago? Where was John five years ago?

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Sep 22, 2008

This is the first year in his 36-year Senate career, that he's actually released his earmark requests in advance.

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Sep 22, 2008

Every one has seen them. And we have no Walter -- you know, we have no Lawrence Welk Museum. We have no bridges to nowhere in Delaware. It's all straight up.

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