Joe Biden wishes tongue-in-cheek "good luck" to Rick Santorum at New Hampshire dinner

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to Veterans and their families at the American Legion in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. / AP Photo/Jim Cole

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to Veterans and their families at the American Legion in Manchester, N.H., Nov. 10, 2011.

/ AP Photo/Jim Cole

CONCORD, N.H. - For months, the political headlines in the state that will host the nation's first presidential primary on Jan. 10 have been dominated by Republicans hoping to win their party's nomination to challenge President Obama. On Thursday, one prominent Democrat swooped in to grab some of the attention.

Keynoting a First Amendment award dinner sponsored by the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications, Vice President Biden lavished praise on journalism and the reach of the Internet - which he called an important tool despite the administration's heartburn over WikiLeaks' use of it to reveal embarrassing diplomatic secrets.

And Biden worked in a shout out for one of the Republican candidates, his former Senate colleague Rick Santorum, spotted working the crowd moments before Biden began to speak.

"Rick, if he is here, good luck old buddy," Biden said of the former Pennsylvania senator. "I hope you do better than I did."

Biden didn't even make it to New Hampshire in 2008: He dropped out of the race after receiving less than one percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses.

Earlier in the day, Biden addressed military veterans in Manchester.

[RobAla]

How can anyone in their right mind continue to support President Obama? Most Americans don't care for lies, corruption, and extremism in a President.

Let's look at the list of achievements during his first 3 years of President Obama and fellow progressives:
1) He lied 8 times in promises to televise the health care discussions openly on CSPAN.
2) He made deals giving one premium health care plan to union members (supporters) and another to the rest of the country.
3) He stood by and allowed the House and Senate to buy health care votes using taxpayer money.
4) He allowed the health care bills to be fashioned behind closed doors and be filled with political favors. This disaster of a health care law costs the American taxpayers an additional $105 billion EACH YEAR, after the Democrats cut more than $400 billion from Medicare to pay for it.
5) He and they took over the nations health care by the federal government - most Americans did not want this extreme action - and still do not. This horrible bill will cause the majority of Americans to have higher health care cost in rising premiums. The CBO in May 2010 said that this irresponsible bill will cause $1 trillion over the next 10 years in additional federal spending. We already can not afford the size federal government that we currently have, with a $14.4 trillion national debt. It imposes $billions of unfunded mandates on struggling states to provide greater Medicaid coverage. 27 states are suing the federal government over this nonsense, as they don't have the money to pay for this. Businesses are not hiring because of the additional cost PER EMPLOYEE that is caused by this law. President Obama has continued at least a 9% unemployment rate for three years.
6) He irresponsibly overspent 100s of billions of dollars the US didn't have on bailouts (President Bush started it and President Obama accelerated it) and bogus stimulus packages. The worthless 111th Congress (led by Democrat Nancy Pelosi) was too busy screwing up the nation to do their job. They never established a budget for the nation in 2010, and by law they are to do this.
7) President Obama has behaved in the most partisan manner of any recent President, after promising bipartisanship. He has arrogantly trashed everyone who has not agreed with his socialist agenda - even the Supreme Court.
8) Instead of securing the border and enforcing federal immigration laws, the President has made war on Arizona Americans as they attempt to protect themselves from an invasion of illegal immigrants.
9) The President's man, AG Holder, dropped his case against the Black Panthers who blatantly intimidated voters at the polls. Now, Holder may finally be kicked out over "Fast and Furious" - the program that sold guns to Mexican cartels, guns used to kill a US border agent.
10) This President has focused on this extremist agenda, instead of the millions without jobs. You can not grow the federal government on the backs of business and taxpayers during a recession, and expect job creation.
11) President Obama imposed a moratorium on drilling in the gulf, throwing thousands more out of work. One foreign oil company screwed up, and the President decided to punish other oil companies that have drilled responsibly for decades.
12) President Obama wanted the President Bush tax cuts to expire, which would have resulted in redirecting money away from the economy and pushing it into Washington. The President held on to this until he was forced to change by the pounding the Democrats took in the 2010 election. Still, he promises to increase taxes next year.
13) The President and other progressives in Congress have imposed oppressive additional expenses and regulations on private sector businesses that are crippling the private sector jobs market, while expanding the federal government and public sector jobs. Anyone with any economic sense knows that you need tax revenues from a healthy private sector jobs market to fund public sector expansions, and the money is just not there. Yet, President Obama wildly and irresponsibly continues to massively grow the federal government - hence an outrageous $14.4 trillion national debt.
14) He knows nothing about economics or foreign policy, as he was a community organizer. A community organizer is someone who agitates for a particular cause.
He has continually agitated one group of Americans against another in class warfare and pointing blame at entire groups of Americans for his failures (bankers, mortgage lenders, the Supreme Court, private insurance providers, CEOs, all Republicans, oil companies, Fox News, corporations...etc). He does nothing to unite the nation.

Just to name a few. The perfect word for President Obama is "irresponsible". His failed policies and practices are tearing this country apart. He is the worst President in my lifetime, and I have seen 12. How in the world can he still have any serious support? He has to go in 2012.