| August 25, 2008 | -
Barack Obama announced Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, as his running mate, even though Biden voted for the war in Iraq and for NAFTA and once said that Obama was “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
| Source 1:
Information Week
Source 2:
The Washington Post
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| March 1, 2007 | -
Senator Joe Biden (D., Del.) boasted that as president he would pull U.S. troops out of Iraq and send them to “take out the janjaweed” in Darfur, which he mistakenly placed in Somalia, not Sudan, where visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a cooperative agreement on the environment and said, “Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan.”
| Source 1:
PrezVid
Source 2:
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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| February 2, 2007 | -
Delaware
Senator Joseph Biden praised Illinois Senator Barack Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” said Biden. “I mean, that's a storybook, man.”
| Source:
salon.com
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| June 15, 2006 | - The United States added the secret phone number for its Homeland Security hotline to the federal Do Not Call Registry. “Every time that phone rings,” said Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner, “it's telemarketers.”
| Source:
USA Today
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| October 28, 2005 | - In Delaware the body of a woman who hanged herself from a tree was pulled down after people realized she was not a decoration.
| Source:
CNN
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| July 15, 2005 | - A Bear, Delaware, woman was charged with injecting her two-year-old son with human feces.
| Source:
Delaware Online
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| February 16, 2004 | - Several farms in Delaware and Maryland were under quarantine because of a bird-flu outbreak.
| Source: Associated Press
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