Orlando, Fla, Oct 27 : Barack Obama’s campaign has pulled the plug on a Florida news station’s access to the presidential candidate after an anchorwoman angered Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden with uncomfortable questions during a satellite interview.
WFTV-Channel 9 anchorwoman Barbara West quizzed Biden about Obama’s intention to “spread the wealth,” referring to the Democratic White House contender’s comments to “Joe the Plumber.”
Talking on the corporate greed issue on the second day of a campaign swing through Colorado, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that if elected, he and Barack Obama will attack corporate greed, and go after executives who reward themselves at the expense of employees.
Biden said that it was unfair that employees of failed companies lose their pensions, while the corporate executives get paid millions of dollars.
New York, Oct. 22: The standing of the Democratic presidential ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden improved during the three presidential debates and the vice presidential debate, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows.
In a poll taken just before the first presidential debate, the Obama-Biden ticket held a five point edge, with 48 percent of likely voters backing the Democratic ticket and 43 percent supporting the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin.
New York, Oct 17 : Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden today cast doubt on Joe the Plumber, who was a focal point of last night’s presidential debates after he questioned Barack Obama’s tax plan.
“I don’t have any Joe the plumbers in my neighborhood who make 250,000 dollar a year and are worried,” Biden told NBC.
New York, Oct. 6 : Television jurors have started delivering their verdicts on vice-presidential candidates, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden after their one and only debate last week.
Palin, it seems, is taking a bigger beating than Biden because she is a woman and a Republican.
The jurors start with the fact that Palin is only the second woman to be on a major-party national ticket. She is the first who would take office as the mother of five children, the oldest being 19.