Posts Tagged as ‘Joe Biden’

September 7, 2008

Joe Biden on Fire

Video “Joe Biden on Fire”

August 29, 2008

Obama Takes Aim at Bush and McCain With a Forceful Call to Change America

Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party presidential nomination on Thursday, declaring that the “American promise has been threatened” by eight years under President Bush and that John McCain represented a continuation of policies that undermined the nation’s economy and imperiled its standing around the world.

The speech by Senator Obama, in front of an audience of nearly 80,000 people on a warm night in a football stadium refashioned into a vast political stage for television viewers, left little doubt how he intended to press his campaign against Mr. McCain this fall.

August 29, 2008

McCain grabs top Google ad spot for searches on Joe Biden

the McCain campaign has nabbed the top ad spot on Google for the search terms “Joe Biden” and “Biden.” Presumably it outbid the Democrats for the top spot.

The ad that appeared reads, “What Does Joe Biden Say About Barack Obama? Find Out Today!” and takes searchers to a page on McCain’s site with a 30-second ad showing Biden in a debate saying that Obama is not ready to be president, followed by a clip of the Delaware senator saying he would be honored to run with McCain because “the country would be better off.”

August 28, 2008

It’s official: Obama and Biden

Barack Obama is officially the Democratic Party’s candidate for the US presidency. On the third day of the Democratic convention in Denver his defeated rival, Hillary Clinton, submitted a motion to elect Obama the winner by acclamation, and in his speech her husband Bill Clinton expressed his unconditional support for Obama. Later in the day, Joe Biden was officially elected as Barack Obama’s running mate for the vice-presidency.

August 28, 2008

Sen. Joe Biden Addresses the DNC

Joe Biden addressing the Democratic National Convention in Denver 2008

August 26, 2008

Obama’s 2.9 million texts create online frenzy

“Textgate is a classic example of why Obama is not fit to be commander in chief,” said John McCain from one of his many houses. “When we should be bombing Iran, he would be fiddling with one of those new fangled cell phones, trying to order some arugula.”

August 25, 2008

Joe Biden in Springfield, Illinois – August 23, 2008

Video of Joe Biden giving his acceptance speech as Barack Obama’s running mate

August 24, 2008

Tech & the convention – now Obama’s got Biden emailing

The word is Senator Biden will be challenging John McCain’s yet-unannounced running mate to a duel in World of Warcraft instead of a vice presidential debate. But that’s just an email that’s going around…

August 24, 2008

Meet Joe Biden

Video of Joe Biden joing the Barack Obama team

August 24, 2008

Wired: Media beat Obama to the punch

Obama’s plan to use text messaging to announce his choice was a first in politics. He had promised supporters that by providing cell phone numbers and e-mail addresses they would be “part of this important moment” – the revelation of his choice for vice president.