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Joe Biden’s Wife

March 8, 2012 by · Comments Off on Joe Biden’s Wife 

Joe Biden’s Wife, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, visited Camp Pendleton on Friday — watching how Marines train for Afghanistan and how combat-wounded Marines are cared for when they return.

Dr. Biden arrived Friday morning, touring the Infantry Immersion Trainer and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal facilities, accompanied by Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.

She said she was impressed with the realism of the Infantry Immersion Trainer, a faux-Afghan village where young Marines are prepared to patrol Afghan villages and interact with civilians but be on guard for insurgents.

“The sights, sounds, and smells — everything is so different than what they’re used to,” she said.

Later she was joined by her husband at the Wounded Warrior Battalion-West facility, meeting wounded Marines and their family members. The visit was part of the Joining Forces Initiative, Dr. Biden’s effort with First Lady Michelle Obama to encourage public support for military members and their families.

The Wounded Warrior Battalion-West is dedicated to providing non-medical care for injured, ill or wounded Marines and preparing them to return to duty or to civilian life.

Wives Of Politicians

March 8, 2012 by · Comments Off on Wives Of Politicians 

Wives Of Politicians, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has acknowledged having an extramarital affair with Callista , then a congressional aide and now his third wife, while he was married to his second wife.
Political wives have been at the top of the news this week.

There’s Maria Shriver and her husband’s infidelity; Callista Gingrich, the third wife of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; and Cheri Daniels, the politically reluctant spouse of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels who, years ago, divorced her current husband, married another man, then came back.

It’s striking, really, considering it wasn’t so long ago that the private lives of politicians were considered off limits, and even protected by the media.

Not so today. The question is asked every election: What right to privacy does a candidate’s family have – and what’s fair game?

Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, watches as her husband, Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, gives his victory speech after being elected senator in 2006.

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Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, watches as her husband, Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, gives his victory speech after being elected senator in 2006.

‘A Mere Appendage’

“There is no definition of ‘fair game,’ ” says Republican political consultant Mary Matalin. “So whatever you think it is, you can disabuse yourself of any of that notion.”

Matalin has worked with some of the most powerful politicians in the country. She says being the wife of a high-profile candidate – along with the accompanying media exposure and the combing through your past – is just awful.

“It’s unfair, it’s irrational, it’s pain that’s relentless,” she says. “And if you can develop a defense for yourself, you can never develop a defense for your loved ones.”

When a nasty campaign hurts the family’s children, says Matalin, even the most steeled political wife breaks down.

There is no definition of ‘fair game.’ So whatever you think it is, you can disabuse yourself of any of that notion.

– Republican political consultant Mary Matalin

Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and for the past seven years, the wife of Ohio politician Sherrod Brown.

“I was not prepared for morphing into a mere appendage of my husband’s campaign,” she says.

Schultz campaigned with her husband when he ran for the Senate in 2006. She says young staffers, or even just bystanders at political events, would tell her to cut her hair, wear other clothes or act differently onstage.

Schultz thinks this is, at least in part, plain old-fashioned sexism. “I wanna buy tickets to that show if anyone thinks they’re going to start lining up husbands and telling them how to behave,” she says.

Schultz believes that it’s up to the individual candidate and spouse to set the boundaries of their privacy, and that they should then defend them vigorously. The voracious appetite for private details, she says, doesn’t do anybody any good.

“Marriages are complicated things,” she adds. “The healthiest of marriages are complicated. And yet we want to make them caricatures.”

Joe Biden Plastic Surgery

March 5, 2012 by · Comments Off on Joe Biden Plastic Surgery 

Joe Biden Plastic Surgery, Increasing numbers of doctors say they see signs of cosmetic medical work in Sen. Joe Biden’s face, but the Biden campaign says he hasn’t undergone the knife.

Responding to a New York doctor’s analysis of changes in the Democratic vice presidential candidate’s appearance from 2004 to 2008 , Biden spokesman David Wade told the New York Post that Biden had not had plastic surgery.

“I don’t know how to say no firmly enough. Absolutely not. That’s not a misdiagnosis, that’s called malpractice,” Wade said.

He called the statements by Manhattan plastic surgeon Dr. Oleh Slupchynskyj “completely untrue, completely unsubstantiated, completely stupid.”

It was unclear whether Wade was disputing the frequent suggestion that Biden has had Botox injections, or only Slupchynskyj’s further suggestion that Biden had plastic surgery around his eyes.

Slupchynskyj said he “would bet my next paycheck on this assessment,” which was based on viewing photos of Biden over the years. He said most of the work was done around Biden’s eyes.

“It appears that he had some sort ‘lateral brow/eyelid lift. Whether it be a string lift or a formal surgical lift, [it’s] hard to say. But I would bet on some kind of lateral brow lift with strings or non-invasive technique.”

“He definitely had Botox in the forehead region.”

Plastic surgeon Dr. Renato Pier Calabria of Beverly Hills agrees with Slupchynskyj about the Botox injections. He told this blog:

It does appear that Sen. Biden has had Botox treatment to smooth out his forehead. The telltale sign is the fact that the tail of the brows are slightly higher. (We call it “Star Trek” look.)

Also it appears that the upper eyelid are droopy because the effect of the Botox on the forehead. Botox is also used for television interviews to eliminate sweating under the camera lights.

In an earlier In Your Face blog post, two plastic surgeons said that Biden’s appearance during last week’s vice presidential debate provided evidence Biden has had Botox injections.

In the post, “Botoxed Biden – how cosmetic docs helped Democratic debater,” Dr. John Di Saia of San Clemente said Biden “has likely had Botulinum toxin treatments.” In contrast to Slupchynskyj, Di Saia thinks Biden needs plastic surgery around his eyes.

Plastic surgeon Dr. Jason Pozner of Boca Raton, Fla., said Biden’s Botox injections were poorly done. They aggravated the senator’s drooping eyebrows, he said.

Joe Biden

December 7, 2011 by · Comments Off on Joe Biden 

Joe Biden, US Vice President Joe Biden, on a visit to Athens on Monday, emphasized Washington’s “solidarity” with Greece in the latter’s efforts to emerge from a debt crisis, stressing that a Greek recovery was “overwhelmingly in the interest” of the US.

In comments before talks with Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, Biden said the US was prepared to help Greece “in any way we can.”

“We stand by you in solidarity as you meet some very difficult requirements from the IMF and European Union,” Biden said, referring to the Washington-based International Monetary Fund, which on Monday approved its share of an 8-billion-euro aid package for Greece.

“It is overwhelmingly in the interest of the United States that Greece work its way through this financial crisis and that it remain a strong and vital part of the European Union,” Biden said.

Papademos said US support for Athens had been “significant and consistent.”

Biden, who arrived in Athens late on Sunday after visiting Iraq and Turkey, also discussed with Papademos issues of regional concern including the Cyprus problem and developments in the Balkans. Another topic broached in talks, sources said, was yesterday’s ruling by the International Court of Justice according to which Greece was wrong to veto the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia from accession talks with NATO in 2008 because of a dispute over the Balkan state’s name.

According to sources, Biden said the ruling would not change Washington’s stance, namely that Athens and Skopje resolve the name row.

Joe Biden F Bomb Video

March 24, 2010 by · Comments Off on Joe Biden F Bomb Video 

Health Care Biden's ProfanityJoe Biden F Bomb Video:The Vice-President’s colorful mouth has landed him in some hot water on one of the most historic days of the Obama administration.

Just before a press conference to announce President Barack Obama’s signing of the health care reform bill on Tuesday morning, VP Biden is heard saying, “This is a big fucking deal,” in Obama’s ear as the pair embraced.

OMG politicians say naughty words?? Oh boy, do you think they go potty too?

Apparently, Biden wasn’t aware that the President’s mic had already been turned on. Obama didn’t say anything in response, but he did smile at Biden as he took to the podium.

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