Obama arrives at prayer service

Because all the churchifying is making me itch. Let's get it over with already.

PhotObama: The train

By GottaLaff

Sold-out movie thwarts Bidens

Don't worry Joe, pretty soon you'll have your own movie theater and they'll be begging you to watch new movies!!

He's a heartbeat away from the presidency, but that apparently didn't help Joe Biden get a movie ticket Saturday night.

Employees at the Regal Brandywine Cinemas say the vice president-elect and his wife, Jill, tried to attend the 7:45 showing of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" at the theater on Concord Pike but left after they were told the movie was sold out.

There's been no confirmation from the Biden camp, but the theater employees say they are sure it was him.

h/t Ben.

Joe and Jill Biden Serve Homeless On Christmas Eve

I don't seem to remember Cheney doing anything like this.

Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, slipped on aprons Wednesday afternoon to serve meatloaf to a few hundred homeless people at a soup kitchen in Wilmington, Del.

Biden told a local news station that the long lines outside the Emmanuel Dining Room highlight the need for an economic stimulus package, which he said he hopes President-elect Barack Obama can sign as early as Inauguration Day.

"A lot of people are hurting," Biden told the reporter. "This is part of the pulse. You can just see when things pick up here. They're not good everywhere else, but a lot of middle-class folks are getting killed too. So it's the number one priority for our administration.

"This is kinda home. And it's important for people to know who are standing out there in line that there's a lot of people who are thinking about them," said Biden, whose sister is a board member of Emanuel, the news station reported.

UPDATE- If the video won't work for you, you can see it here.

Vice President-elect Joe Biden on "This Week": The economy, his wife, his Senate seat, and his dogs

By GottaLaff

Joe's talking again, and about all kinds of things. ABC has released a few excerpts from his Sunday appearance on "This Week". Here's what he's saying about that miserable economy of ours:

Vice President-elect Joe Biden says lawmakers from both parties have urged the incoming administration to be big and bold with its economic aid plan next year despite the huge deficits being created.

"There is going to be real significant investment, whether it's $600 billion or more, or $700 billion, the clear notion is it's a number no one would have thought about a year ago," Biden told ABC's "This Week" for an interview to air Sunday.

Biden said the spending was necessary to stop the loss of jobs and that the economy would be the administration's top priority.

About Jill:

[She] will continue to teach after she moves to Washington, but probably part time. He said several four-year and community colleges in the Washington area have contacted her.

"I think it's very important she have and maintain her own life, her own identity," Biden said. "And she'll be a very active second lady. She'll be very active. But I think it's important. It matters to her."

About his Senate seat:

[He hasn't] resigned from the Senate yet because he said it was possible that he could have voted on some issues where the margin of a victory or defeat would have been close. "I have no intention of staying up until the day that I am sworn in as vice president."

About his doggies. Yes, that was plural:

He also noted that he's getting a second dog, and it will come from the pound, not a breeder. [...]

Biden says he wants a companion for the German shepherd puppy and his wife wants it to be a dog from the pound.

Concerns about the Obama administration making the economy, not Rev. Rick, their priority: Check.

Concerns about what kind of Second Lady Jill will be: Check.

Concerns about why he hasn't relinquished his Senate seat yet: Check.

Concerns about his acquiring a breeder puppy instead of a pound puppy: Check.

That was easy.

Let's play Biden/Cheney Captionary!

By GottaLaff

"This is where Dick sleeps."

Photo: REUTERS/Molly Riley

Tomorrow, The Cheneys Give The Bidens "The Tour"

After dark of course. I'm thinking certain "rooms" will be excluded.

Tomorrow at 5:15 p.m., Biden and his wife meet the Cheneys.

They'll have a private meeting and tour of the residence, according to an Obama spokesman, and release an official photo.

Biden has been rather hard on the unpopular veep in the past, as in:

"The vice president doesn't know what he's talking about. I can't be more blunt than that. He is yet to be right one single time on Iraq. Name me one single time he's been correct."

Obama Family Gets Best Code Names in History of White House

Heh, sounds to me like the Secret Service were finally giving code names to people they liked.

Anyway, all the Obamas have names now beginning with the letter R, and they are way better than those of the Clinton family, who were referred to as Eagle (Bill) and Evergreen (Hillary), or the Bush family which was Tumbler (George W.), Tempo (Laura) and Sheepskin (George Sr.).

If you guys ever want to use your ham radios to listen in to your Secret Service station, get ready for President-Elect Renegade.

President-elect Barack Obama: Renegade

Michelle Obama: Renaissance

Malia Obama: Radiance

Sasha Obama: Rosebud

Vice President-elect Joe Biden: Celtic

Jill Biden: Capri

Biden Attends Mother-In-Law's Funeral

By GottaLaff

Our hearts go out to the Biden family:

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Dela., Tuesday attended the funeral of his late mother-in-law Bonny Jean Jacobs, who passed away Sunday at the age of 78 after a long illness. [...]

Jacobs' husband Donald passed away in 1999.

The morning service at Abington Presbyterian Church near Philadelphia comes at the end of a trying post-debate stretch for the Delaware lawmaker. His mother-in-law's death Sunday came on the same day his son Beau began a year-long deployment to Iraq by departing for training in Texas.

On Wednesday, Biden will get back on the campaign trail traveling to Florida, where he will hold his first solo campaign rally in 12 days. His last solo rally was on September 26 in Cudahy, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.

It will be good to see Joe back out there. Hopefully, the change of venue and focus, plus all those adoring voters, will help him get through some very, very difficult times.

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Michelle Obama and Jill Biden

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Mrs.Vice President Biden

By GottaLaff

Jill Biden

FYI: Background on Joe Biden

H/t for photo: Commenter Chris