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POSITION: Vice President of the United States of America
NOMINEE: Joseph Biden
Born: Scranton, PA, November 20, 1942
Family: Wife, Jill Tract Jacobs, and four children.
Occupation: Vice President of the United States, January 20, 2009; U.S. Senator for the state of Delaware, January 3, 1973 – January 15, 2009
Education: Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968
Chairmanships in Congress: Foreign Relations: January 2007-2009/June, 2001 – January, 2003/January 3, 2001 – January 20, 2001. Judiciary: January, 1987 – January, 1995.
SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE
On Roe v. Wade
“I strongly support Roe v. Wade. . . That’s why I led the fight to defeat Bork, Roberts, Alito and Thomas.” 2007 South Carolina Democratic primary debate, MSNBC April 26, 2007.
Endorsed China’s one child policy
“But as I was talking to some of your leaders, you share a similar concern here in China. You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family. The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable.” – Vice President Joe Biden addressing Sichuan University in Chengdu, China in August of 2011. China is know to brutally enforce their policy with forced and coerced abortions and sterilizations
On protecting the unborn child or minors in cases of abortion
Voted against defining the unborn child as eligible for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Amends the definition of the term “targeted low-income child” to provide that such term includes the period from conception to birth for eligibility for child health assistance. S.Amdt. to S.ConRes.70, Senator Allard Amendment, Roll Call 08-S81, March 14, 2008.
Voted against stopping ne’er-do-well adults from taking minors across state lines for an abortion: S.Amdt 4335 to S.Con.Res. 70, Roll Call 08-S71, March 13, 2008.
Voted against parental notification for minors who get out-of-state abortions: S.403, Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, Roll Call 06-216, July 25, 2006.
Voted against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act: Bill makes it a criminal offense to harm or kill a fetus during the 
commission of a violent crime. S.1019/H.R. 1997, Unborn Victims of Violence Act, Roll Call 04-63, March 25, 2004.
Voted for the Partial Birth Abortion Ban: S. 1692, Partial Birth Abortion Ban, Roll Call 99-340, October 21, 1999 (He did not vote on the bill that became law in the 108th Congress.)
On taxpayer funding
Voted for increasing taxpayer funding for destructive embryonic stem cell experimentation: S.5/H.R. 3, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, Roll Call 07-127, April 11, 2007.
Voted for increasing funding to Planned Parenthood and similar clinics by $100 million: S.Amdt. 244 to S.Con.Res 18, Appropriation to expand access to preventive health care services, Roll Call 05-75, March 17, 2005.
Voted for taxpayer funding of abortions on military bases: S. 2549, Roll Call 00-134, June 20, 2000.
Voted against banning human cloning: Motion to proceed for S. 1601, Roll Call 98-10, February 11, 1998.
NOTE: Senator Biden co-sponsored the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) in the 102nd and 103rd Congresses but has not done so since. FOCA would overturn hundreds of state laws on the books that limit abortion.
MARRIAGE AND HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA
Supports same-sex “marriage”: “Look, I am Vice President of the United States of America. The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights. All the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that. [...] I think Will & Grace probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody has done so far. People fear that is different and now they’re beginning to understand.” – Joe Biden endorsing same sex marriage on May 6, 2012, which is attributed to later forcing his boss to do the same.
Voted against the Marriage Protection Amendment: S.J.Res. 1, Roll Call 06-163, June 7, 2006.
Vote for the Defense of Marriage Act: H.R. 3396, Roll Call 96-280, September 10, 1996.
Voted in favor of the Federal Hate Crimes Act: Thought crimes amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization that would establish federal “hate crimes” for certain violent acts based on the actual or perceived race, religion, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation of any person. S. Amdt. 3035, Roll Call No. 07-350, September 27, 2007.
Voted for allowing gays in the military: 2007 Dem. debate at Saint Anselm College June 3, 2007.
ON JUDICIAL LITMUS TESTS
“When I got to the United States Senate and went on the Judiciary Committee as a young lawyer, I was of the view … that the only thing that mattered was whether or not a nominee appointed, suggested by the president had a judicial temperament, had not committed a crime of moral turpitude, and was – had been a good student. … [I]t took about five years for me to realize that the ideology of that judge makes a big difference. That’s why I led the fight against Judge Bork.” Vice presidential debate between Democratic Senator Joe Biden and Republican Governor Sarah Palin. The debate was moderated by Gwen Ifill of PBS at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Voted against confirming Samuel Alito (January, 2006), John Roberts (September, 2005) and Clarence Thomas (October, 1991) for the Supreme Court.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Information released a few years ago revealed a telling side of then Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.) trip to the despotic Soviet Union in 1979:
“Unofficially, Biden and Lugar said that, in the end of the day, they were not so much concerned with having a problem of this or that [Soviet] citizen solved as with showing to the American public that they do care for ‘human rights.’ … In other words, the collocutors directly admitted that what is happening is a kind of a show, they absolutely do not care for the fate of most so-called dissidents.” [emphasis added] (SOURCE)
It should come as little surprise though as political commentator Charles Krauhammer pointed out:
“The Vice President has been over the last 30 years holds the American record for wrong on the most issues in foreign affairs ever. And the list starts with the nuclear freeze in the early ’80s against Thatcher and Reagan and Cole which is one of the follies of the era. He supported it.
He was against aid to the Nicaraguan Contras which in the end brought democracy and ended the Sandinista rule at the time. He was against Reagan’s expansion of the defense budget, which bankrupted theSoviet Unionand led to the end of the Soviet Empire. He was against Reagan on Strategic Defenses, which is the big advantage that we have now in the missile age.
And look at where he was on Iraq. He opposed the first Iraq War, the Gulf War that liberated Kuwaitthat everybody agrees was a good thing. He supported the Iraq War which he, not I, he says was a terrible mistake. And then when the surge happened, he opposed the surge in Iraqwhich rescued a losing war and ended with our leaving with our heads held high and some promise in the future.” – (VIDEO SOURCE)
MISCELLANEOUS.
Scored 100% in the Planned Parenthood Scorecard for the 109th Congress.
Scored 78% in the Human Rights Campaign Scorecard for the 109th Congress.
Scored 0% in the FRCAction Scorecard for the 110th Congress.
Was named a Face for the Future by Time Magazine in his freshman senatorial year – in 1974
Joe Biden’s Greatest Hits
The Vice President has a reputation for being a lightning rod for controversy due to his penchant for speaking before thinking.
“In Flint, Michigan, they cut their force in half; murder rates have doubled in the last year…Police departments, as I said, in some cases literally cut in half, like Camden, New Jersey, and Flint, Michigan. In many cities, the result has been — and it’s not unique — murder rates are up, robberies are up, rapes are up…I said rape was up, three times in Flint. There are the numbers. Go look at the numbers.” – Vice President Joe Biden, October 19, 2011, on Capitol Hill. The Washington Post gave this whopper “Four Pinocchios”, it’s highest rating for lies.
“I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. … When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway.” –Joe Biden, providing handy tips to protect against the swine flu and freaking us out, “Today Show” interview,April 30, 2009
“Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.” –Joe Biden, Athens, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2008(SOURCE)
“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.” Vice President Joe Biden in October 2010, pre-dating President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” quote.
His earlier presidential campaign imploded when he was caught plagiarizing from British Labour Party head Neil Kinnock. Rhetorical Question by Michael Crowley, New Republic, October 22, 2001
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” Senator Joe Biden on Senator Barack Obama
In a June 2006 appearance in New Hampshire, the senator commented on the growth of the Indian-American population in Delawareby saying, “You cannot go into a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. Oh, I’m not joking.” SOURCE: C-SPAN’s “Road to the White House” series showing Biden trying to bond with an Indian-American supporter
“Better than everybody else. You don’t know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state is the eighth largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a northeast liberal state,” Biden describing how a Northern liberal could compete in the South.
“I have a record. The good news and the bad news is that I have a record. I have a bad reputation of saying what I think, but I’m going to continue to do that.” Sept. 24, 2007, appearing on The View.
