Vice President Dick Cheney and Mrs. Cheney will meet with Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Mrs. Biden at the Naval Observatory (the Vice Presidential residence) tomorrow evening, CBS News’ Mark Knoller reports. Like the event last week at the White House, the Cheneys and the Bidens will have a private meeting and then tour the residence.
Barack Obama’s campaign is making sure the public doesn’t miss Vice President Dick Cheney’s campaign appearance in Wyoming over the weekend – or his strong words of support for the Republican ticket. Joe Biden used it on the campaign trail yesterday and this morning, Obama’s camp is up with a new ad
“Barack Obama, endorsed by Warren Buffett and Colin Powell,” the ad begins. “And John McCain's latest endorsement?” Cheney: I'm delighted to support John McCain and I'm pleased that he's chosen a running mate with executive talent, toughness and common sense, our next vice president Sarah Palin.” Announcer: “And boy did McCain earn it, he voted with Bush and Cheney 90% of the time.” Cheney: “I'm delighted to support John McCain.” Announcer: “And that's not the change we need.” Watch it:
Barack Obama’s campaign is making sure the public doesn’t miss Vice President Dick Cheney’s campaign appearance in Wyoming over the weekend – or his strong words of support for the Republican ticket. Joe Biden used it on the campaign trail yesterday and this morning, Obama’s camp is up with a new ad
“Barack Obama, endorsed by Warren Buffett and Colin Powell,” the ad begins. “And John McCain's latest endorsement?” Cheney: I'm delighted to support John McCain and I'm pleased that he's chosen a running mate with executive talent, toughness and common sense, our next vice president Sarah Palin.” Announcer: “And boy did McCain earn it, he voted with Bush and Cheney 90% of the time.” Cheney: “I'm delighted to support John McCain.” Announcer: “And that's not the change we need.” Watch it:
Vice President Dick Cheney told reporters traveling with him overseas that there isn’t any reason why GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin wouldn’t be a good vice president if elected. “We’ve had all kinds of vice presidents over the years and everybody brings a different set of experiences to the office and also a different kind of understanding with whoever the president is,” Cheney said according to Reuters. “Each administration’s different and there’s no reason why Sarah Palin can’t be a successful vice president in a McCain administration,” he said, adding that he liked her speech to the GOP convention last week. “I thought her appearance at the convention was superb,” he said. “I watched that with great interest. I loved some of her lines - what was the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? It’s lipstick,” he said “with a laugh,” according to the report.
The Democratic National Committee unveiled a Web site this morning spotlighting seven people discussed as potential running mates for John McCain: Eric Cantor, Charlie Crist, Carly Fiorina, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Fred Smith and John Thune.
In a press release, the DNC write that the purpose of the site, called "The Next Cheney," is to illustrate "the most important thing the voters need to know about each of John McCain's potential vice presidential picks: no matter who he chooses, any ticket with John McCain on it means more of the same."
Visitors to the site are offered critical information about each of the potential veeps – they can "Learn more about Pawlenty's ethics violations," "Crist's admiration for Bush," or "Romney's position changes," for example. Clicking on the links takes media reports and other documents painting each politician in an unflattering light.
The site prominently quotes McCain telling Cheney in 2001, "With a little more luck, I might have been able to ask you to be my Vice-President." It will be updated with information about additional vice presidential candidates in the coming days, according to the DNC release.
UPDATE: Republican National Committee Spokesman Alex Conant responds to the site: “The irony is that Obama – not McCain – voted for Cheney’s energy bill. While everyone else is debating the all-too-real energy crisis, it’s good to see Democrats are obsessing over hypothetical political match-ups. The DNC is having fun with Washington parlor games, but the rest of the nation is debating the merits of McCain’s ‘all-of-the-above’ energy plan versus Obama’s ‘inflate-your-tires’ approach.”
If last year's Radio and Television Correspondents' Association Dinner went down in history as the night when old-school hip-hop artist "MC Rove" gave his first and only cringe-worthy performance, this year's event will be remembered for solid routines from a couple of unlikely comedians.
CBS News Director of Political Coverage Steve Chaggaris hosted the annual event in Washington last night, which featured guest appearances from "Sunday Morning" contributor Mo Rocca and Vice President Cheney.
Cheney got off one of the better lines of the night when he said, “Of course there are two Democrats running and they’re still hopelessly divided over who’s the real uniter, and you in the press need to go easy on Senator Clinton on the whole business about running and ducking from gunfire in Bosnia. She made an honest mistake. She confused the Bosnia trip with the time I took her hunting.”
But it was another politician with a reputation for rigidity who stole the show.
Chaggaris was in the middle of sharing his reflections on the presidential campaign when a tall figure crept up from behind him.
"That's odd," Chaggaris deadpanned. "I mean, I'm wondering why there's a cardboard cutout of Mitt Romney behind me."
It actually was the former Massachusetts governor, who then stepped up to the podium.
“I see I’m getting the same kind of coverage on CBS I used to get,” Romney shot back.
The former GOP presidential candidate then went into a top ten list of why he decided to get out of the race. Romney is known for many things, but standup comedy is not among them, so it was a surprise to many in the audience when his list turned out to be very funny indeed. Watch the video below.
