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Obamas' Assets: Up to $8.3M

John Johnson — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:56:10 CDT

Barack and Michelle Obama's personal finances are in sound shape: The first couple today reported total assets of between $2.6 million and $8.3 million last year, reports the Washington Post . (The imprecision is because of the broad ranges on reporting forms.) President Obama is still collecting decent...

Biden Apologized to Obama on Gay Marriage

John Johnson — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:04:48 CDT

Skeptics may think Joe Biden's public comments on gay marriage were carefully orchestrated, but the White House insists it was just Joe being Joe. In fact, Biden apologized to the president the first time the two spoke afterward, reports the New York Times and Washington Post . (Both cite anonymous administration...

Joe Biden Suddenly a Liberal Hero

John Johnson — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:45:13 CDT

Liberals are celebrating a hero in the White House, and his name is ... Joe Biden. The vice president's comments on Sunday in support of gay marriage clearly "sped up history," writes Steve Kornacki at Salon , and gave President Obama "no choice but to say what he’s been scared to say...

Behind Obama's Gay-Marriage Nod: Biden

Polly Davis Doig — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:41:24 CDT

If the United States of America had a nickel for every time its current vice president opened his mouth and inserted foot, we'd all get a trip to Disneyland. But Joe Biden's comments Sunday instead got us President Obama's personal endorsement of gay marriage — yesterday, not at some random point...

Joe Biden's Gay Marriage Motive: the 2016 Election

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:45:05 CDT

Joe Biden's support for gay marriage may not have been a political "trial balloon" or a typically Bidenesque case of loose lips. "No one knows quite what to make of Joe Biden’s apparent endorsement of same-sex marriage on Sunday," writes Steve Kornacki at Salon . But "if you consider Biden’s gay...

Arne Duncan: I Support Gay Marriage

Kevin Spak — Mon, 07 May 2012 09:02:04 CDT

Joe Biden's not the only one in the Obama administration comfortable with same-sex marriage . On Morning Joe today, Mark Halperin asked Education Secretary Arne Duncan if he supported same-sex marriage, and Duncan didn't equivocate at all. "Yes, I do," he replied. Asked if he'd ever said that publicly before, he...

White House Backs Off Biden's Support of Gay Marriage

Matt Cantor — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:47:42 CDT

Moments after Joe Biden offered his candid support for gay marriage yesterday, the White House rushed to clarify its position. "The vice president was saying what the president has said previously—that committed and loving same-sex couples deserve the same rights and protections enjoyed by all Americans and that we...

McCain to Mitt: Pick a VP You Trust

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:16:18 CDT

And on the seventh day, inquiring Republicans again debated who Mitt Romney will pick to run for vice president: John McCain, a person who knows a little something about picking a veep, said qualifications reign supreme —and that Sarah Palin's won her the No. 2 spot on his ticket—and...

Joe Biden 'Comfortable' With Gay Marriage

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:52:48 CDT

President Obama's views may be "evolving" on gay marriage , but Joe Biden's are characteristically blunt: The vice president, though making clear his views were his own, told Meet the Press this morning that he's "absolutely comfortable" with gays tying the knot, saying that the concept of marriage boils down to...