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To: ManyMoose who wrote (35424)	7/27/2009 11:43:44 PM
From: Peter Dierks	of 71588

July 27, 2009 White House claims Biden is not a distraction Vice President Joe Biden is once again the center of attention and controversy. Known for speaking his mind, and for perhaps sometimes speaking more honestly than the Obama administration would like, Biden's most recent gaffe occurred this weekend in an interview with the Wall Street Journal in which he characterized Russia as a weakened country and suggested the US has the upper hand in dealing with its old foe. "I think we vastly underestimate the hand that we hold," Biden said. "Russia has to make some very difficult, calculated decisions," the vice president extrapolated. "They have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years, they're in a situation where the world is changing before them and they're clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable." Biden's remarks seem to contradict President's Obama's ... ... Gibbs has been forced to defend, or rather clarify Biden statements in the past, most notably back in April when the H1N1 flu was first on the rise. The vice president said in a television interview that he would tell his family, "I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now" which raised eyebrows since the such advice was not being given to the public at large. Later that day the White House press secretary was forced to infamously say, "what the Vice President meant to say was..." ... whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com

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