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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Redefining the role of the Vice President
Joe Biden is now facing the challenge of redefining the role of the vice-president, which current VP Dick Cheney has significantly altered. Earlier during the debate season Biden described Cheney as the most dangerous VP america has ever had in the entire American history. In a recent interview Biden described what role he believes he should have: "The primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote..." It seems as though everyone agrees with him, considering U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just announced that he will bar Biden from the weekly internal Party Senate lunches, an event that Cheney regularly attended. The Biden camp responded by saying that Biden was never planning to attend the meetings and sees eye to eye with Senator Reid on this issue. Biden seems content with the traditional advising role of the vice president and a source close to the transition team says that "Biden has been a key part of every key meeting since the election and has had weekly lunches with Obama," suggesting that Biden is far from being pushed to the background, as the media has been claiming in recent weeks. There even are recent indications that Biden will take on the role of Labor advocate. In other Biden news, Joe recently added Jared Bernstein to his staff as chief Economist.
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