"Cheney/Biden differences are visibly clear"

[jillan]

From USA Today:
In the Bush-Cheney years, as Gawker.com points out, you couldn't really see the vice president's mansion in Washington in the satellite images available at Google Earth. The pictures that came up were digitally blurred.

Now, if you do a Google Earth search for "One Observatory Circle" in Washington, there it is:



Just before Inauguration Day, Google tells Gawker, crisp images became available from Digital Globe.

Things have changed in another way since Vice President Biden took over from Dick Cheney.

The new staff at the White House press office is providing "guidance" in the evenings about what Biden will be doing the next day -- a sharp departure from the secrecy about Cheney's doings most days.

Among the things on Biden's schedule today:

• Breakfast with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
• The president's daily economic briefing.
• Swearing in Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., to be her state's new senator.
• Lunch with Senate Democratic caucus Lunch.
• Private meetings at the White House.

Update at 4:15 p.m. ET. And at 5 p.m. ET, the White House now says, Biden will be swearing in:

• Secretary Shaun Donovan, Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Secretary Ray LaHood, Department of Transportation
• Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
• Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Mary Schapiro, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Appointee
• Nancy Sutley, Council on Environmental Quality Chair

[Tashca]

1. Return too reality?

This article makes me really wonder about Cheney.....was he that paranoid someone was after him??
Was he nearly insane??
I'm kind of serious here. Why the hell block out the photo?....Live your life in a bunker.
I know he is portrayed as evil....but I wonder if this guy was real close to losing it. I would love to sneak up on him and tap him on the shoulder.....whoops....another stint sir??

[PatSeg]

2. At least he had the good sense

to be paranoid. He knew he wasn't very well liked (understatement, duh).

[jillan]

4. I really believe Cheney was nuts.

I've heard people who knew him for a long time saying that he really changed.

[CrispyQ]

9. ...

"I would love to sneak up on him and tap him on the shoulder.....whoops....another stint sir??"

:spray:

The mental well being of both Cheney & Bush should have been questioned. Neither had a fucking clue about reality.

[jillan]

3. Biden must feel like his whole job is swearing in people.

[Muttocracy]

6. I never knew the VP did so much swearing ;-)

[Jennicut]

5. I hope the Bidens had someone bless the house or something

The whole vibe of that place is evil since Cheney was there.

[Muttocracy]

7. Maybe THAT's why his mom won't move there! nt

[jillan]

8. Lol - maybe you are right!