Joe Biden

A man presented as an “ordinary voter” in a New York Times article today about the impending recount in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race has strong ties to the Republican Party and conservative causes that the article does not reveal. Noah Rouen says he told writer Christina Capecchi about his background.

Burnin’ up the internet this morning is an interview by Orlando Fox news anchor Barbara West and Joe Biden, who had to endure some positively Bachmannesque questioning. West, who is married to a GOP media consultant, is now the subject of a petition seeking an apology. Best exchange:
West: How is Sen. Obama not being a [...]

Looking to show your presidential pride this Halloween? A number of sites have come up with politics-themed stencils worthy of the best political cartoonists and satirists. A website called “Yes We Carve” is a gathering place for starving carve artists to download and share their Barack-o-Lanterns. And if the number of carvists choosing Obama over [...]

With half of my Twitter friends in the political sphere and the other half involved with art, watching my feed during last night’s debate yielded an entertaining mash-up of both. One, from Washington, D.C.–based art journalist Tyler Green, referenced a contemporary art darling (who happens to be Mr. Björk): “It occurs to me that Matthew Barney was on the vanguard of incoherence as a strategy. Palin’s just following in his footsteps.”

So in the spirit of absurdity and art, a less-than-political rundown of odd takes on proceedings.

A grassroots movement is growing in Alaska. Women against Palin are blogging, protesting, signing petitions and influencing women nationwide. A group of female bloggers in Alaska talks to MnIndy about what the public and mainstream media get wrong about Palin and why it matters now more than ever to get it right.

CBS has released another clip of Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric. The question, posed to both Palin and Joe Biden: What’s the best and worst thing Dick Cheney has done as vice president. “He has done more harm than any other single high elected official, at least in my memory, in terms of shredding [...]

We predicted it: The pre-debate already has turned into an arena football game complete with monkey mascots, star-spangled ass-kickin’ boots, and the origin of a Lifetime channel made-for-TV movie, Let’s Finally Stop Pretending This Was Ever a Good Idea: The Sarah Palin Story.
Who will come out victorious? Who will come out slathered in nacho cheese? [...]

As a former candidate for governor, Alaska state representative Andrew Halcro has debated Sarah Palin some two dozen times. In an essay and audio interview with the Christian Science Monitor, the blogger and Independent candidate calls Palin a “master of the non-answer” and recalls a conversation he had with Palin during the campaign. In a [...]

Biden is carrying an actual pigskin. McCain is taking cues from Chicago Bears. Palin has been reduced to a cheerleader. As the countdown begins to the kickoff of the Palin-Biden debate on Thursday night, both the Dems and Republicans are trying to appeal to America’s sports-fan-like allegiances in order to come out with the “W.” [...]

You could fill an undergraduate survey course in American history with the political, historical, cultural, and geographical differences between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden and their respective home states. One state is tiny, the other enormous. One state is the oldest, the other the newest. One state leans the deepest shade of blue, the other [...]