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Subscribe to RSSVice President Joe Biden is sworn in for his second term on Sunday morning.
Joe Biden was sworn in to a second term as the Vice President of the United States on Sunday morning, taking his oath from Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor -- the first Hispanic in American history to administer an oath of office.
Biden personally selected Sotomayor, who is also the fourth woman to administer an oath, to conduct the brief ceremony at the vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
By law, the president and vice president must be sworn in on Jan. 20. Because that date falls on a Sunday this year, both men take their formal oaths today, but will hold the traditional longer public ceremony tomorrow.
Biden's swearing-in was originally scheduled to be held shortly before the president's, near noon Sunday. But Sotomayor's previous commitment to a book signing in New York City prompted officials to move the event earlier in the day.
"It's an incredible honor to have Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor swear me in," Biden said in a statement. "I believed strongly that she would make a great Justice, and it was one of the greatest pleasures of my career to be involved in her selection to the Court. From the first time I met her, I was impressed by Justice Sotomayor's commitment to justice and opportunity for all Americans, and she continues to exemplify those values today. Above all, I'm happy for the chance to be sworn in by a friend - and someone I know will continue to do great things."
After the short swearing-in, Biden again thanked Sotomayor personally, explaining to the small group of guests the reason for the early timing of the event.
Biden took the oath on a family Bible bearing a Celtic cross. It has been in the Biden family since 1893.
Cabinet members attending the ceremony included Attorney General Eric Holder and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. He was joined on stage by his family, including wife Dr. Jill Biden and his three children.
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The last time I saw Joe, the Drunken Uncle ..... he was passed out in his car outside a strip bar in Las Vegas!! He drove in and realized that it was after 2:00AM so he decided to wait until 12;00PM to go in. The door man came out at 3:30AM and asked Joe ... why are you sleeping in your car here. Joe said .... "I'm waiting for the bar to open?? The doorman said .."Dude, you see the sign that says ... open 24 hours?"
Joe says ....duh, "my bad .... well, at least I get get a jumpstart on the daytime lap dances!!!" Good going Joe!
I wonder if he knew where he was at when he was taking the oath?
joe mama, he knew he wasn't in a TRAILER PARK.
ho ho ho
It is really great to see all the Right Wing Nut Jobs out in force. But, trolling on the internet doesn't get somebody elected or not elected. With that said, just want to congratulate our GREAT PRESDIENT, BARRACK HUSSIEN OBAMA on his win for a 2nd term.
Read it and weep all you snaggy tooth, beady eyed, slack jawed, right wing dip chits..
Ho Ho Ho
Typical! Libs showing their uneducated ignorance as usual. Nothing of substance or worthwhile to speak of. No wonder America is in an uphill battle because of the Delusional Unrealistic Denial of the Libs. The next 4 years will be a new REVOLUTION, avoiding the Socialist/Communist Lefties and doing away with the 2nd and 22nd Amendment and Obama's personal agenda.
"Libs showing their uneducated ignorance as usual. Nothing of substance or worthwhile to speak of."
And yet again -- a conservative attempts to describe liberals but ends up describing themselves.
Charlie-1915998
"Thank you Charlie for confirming what I said about liberals, not being able to say anything of substance"
You did it again -- described yourself. YOU have yet to say anything of substance or for that matter, anything even remotely original.
This just goes to prove that the FUMU principle really works, especially in government.
I'd like to know if that was really a Bible.
No matter what you think of Biden we all know for a fact; Palin would have been much much worse.
Congratulations NBC for successfully installing your President. How about a little Benghazi now? Surely it is safe now, so just a little. Toss a poor man a bone.
Hey Republicans ---- listen up. I thing I have a strategy that may work for you.
Now --- Mitt Romney may have been the best you had and that’s the problem --- he was the best of a horrible insane, ridicules batch. Seriously – Rick Santorum, Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cane, Newt Gingrich --- as president ---- any of them?? I don’t think so. But that’s all in the past. So let’s look to the 2016 election. This is my advise Republicans --- if you want to have any chance of winning in 2016 ---
Hey, Joe......is this a big f'n deal or what?!?!?!?
"I'm so fuc king happy they swore me in as president...er...vice....huh?...whatever" -J. Biden
Congrats Big Joe!
Thee will be voting for you when you run for President in 2016. That's right. BOOM!!
Yer Pal Always,
Thee Ox & Friends
A poem for the Right Wing Trolls.
Obama was the choice that many voted for,
However, it made many a right wing dip chit sore,
Why does the right wing spew nothing but hate,
when most of them are pot bellied and over weight,
Tis a day to rejoice because Obama won,
I feel for the rightwingers who sleep with a gun and call it fun.
The USA is the greatest nation of them all,
Although right-wing-dip-chits wish her to fall.
I do not drink NRA KOOL-AID at any time,
And I wouldn't give the Tea Party not even a dime.
Right Wing Gun Nuts Can't Shoot AT all,
That is why they want 30/100 mags and hope something will fall..
Spray and Pray, is how the right wingers shoot,
They can't hit the side of a barn even with my boot.
Old Romney lost because his people voted with hate,
Obama won because he was the better choice and our fate.
Right wingers flee to internet to troll,
Only to get the chit smack out of them because they have no soul!
This chit is trademark, do not copy/transfer. Ha ha
Wal-Mart vs. The white house Morons
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood
by all Americans… Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!
To: President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature
It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt morons:
A.. The U.S.Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years
To get it right and it is broke.
B.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it
Right and it is broke.
C.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right
And it is broke.
D.. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right;
$1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the
Poor" and they only want more.
E.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years
To get it right and they are broke.
F.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right
And it is broke.
G.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence
On foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion
A year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right
And it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED
WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??
Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our "duly elected' (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel AND
I know what's wrong. We have lost our minds to "Political Correctness" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone please tell me what the HECK's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!
We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????
In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile, and Turkey..And now Pakistan .......previous home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks…
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc.
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.
Sad isn't it?