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WATCH LIVE: Biden addresses police organization

Vice President Joe Biden spoke to the National Association of Police Organizations in Manalapan, Florida on Monday. Watch live, broadcast on MSNBC on July 23. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry: Biden has been Obama’s ‘sherpa to blackness’

In comparing Vice President Joe Biden’s appearance at the NAACP convention Thursday to Mitt Romney’s on her show Sunday, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry said it cracked her up to see Biden emerge as President Barack Obama’s “sherpa to blackness for the first African-American president.” During his speech, Biden noted he was…

WATCH LIVE: Biden speaks to NAACP convention

After presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney got booed by the NAACP crowd on Wednesday when he said he’d repeal the Affordable Care Act, Vice President Joe Biden makes a stop at the 103rd convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Thursday. Watch live, broadcast…

Biden says Romney good at creating jobs — in China

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden kept the pressure on Mitt Romney’s White House bid Tuesday, lampooning the Republican as an expert at job creation — in rival China and growing economic power India. President Barack Obama’s re-election team pounced last week on a Washington Post report that former private…

Biden: This election is ‘about who the hell we are’

Vice President Joe Biden painted a bleak picture of a Mitt Romney presidency Wednesday at a gathering of black media professionals, the Huffington Post reports. “Imagine what the Supreme Court will look like after three years of a Romney presidency,” Biden said in a speech at the National Association of…

Biden rips Romney’s social policy: ‘We will not go back to the 1950s!’

Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s social polices would take the U.S. back to the 1950s. Speaking to supporters in Keene, New Hampshire, Biden noted that his speech would focus on the economy but he also wanted to make a point about…

Conan O’Brien floats awful new campaign slogans for Joe Biden

On Thursday’s broadcast of Conan on TBS, the late night host spliced together some video of a recent speech by Vice President Joe Biden, pitching several of his quotes as potential new campaign slogans. Slogans like: “We can’t do it,” “Forget about your fu*king dignity,” “I don’t quite get this”…

Biden mocks Romney by taking credit for moon landing

Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday joked that he would “take a lot of credit for a man having landed on the moon” to point out the absurdity of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney taking responsibility for saving the U.S. auto industry. “So I’ll take a lot of credit…

SNL parodies Obama and Biden over same-sex marriage

Saturday Night Live decided it was fitting to have fun with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s friendship with each other after their headline making week of endorsing same-sex marriage. In fact, the comedy show decided to have a cameo return of George W. Bush, as always played…

Profiles in courage: Obama’s ‘evolving’ position on marriage equality

Ever since Vice President Joe Biden let the proverbial cat out of the proverbial bag and admitted he thinks Americans should have equal rights regardless of the person they wish to marry, the White House has been batting clean-up: on the one hand, trying to preserve that mythical voter bloc…