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Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, an American Navy Seal who was killed in the September 11th attack on the American consulate in Libya says that Vice President Biden made an obscene comment to him regarding his son on the day his son’s remains were returned to America.

“Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?” Woods alleges the Vice President asked him, adding that after speaking with President Obama, he felt as if the President had “no remorse” over the attack, or his son’s death.

WASHINGTON – With the Democratic convention drawing the bulk of the media’s attention this week, reports that a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security had resigned Saturday amid accusations of employment discrimination and sexual harassment were overlooked by the majority of news agencies. The official, Suzanne Barr, an aide to the department’s secretary, Janet Napolitano, had been on leave from her position of chief of staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a male agent filed a lawsuit accusing her of creating a “frat house” atmosphere designed to humiliate male employees. Additional male employees came forward with their own complaints of sexual misconduct by Barr.

Early today on CBS This Morning, Vice President Biden sat down with host Gayle King and near the end of the interview he was asked about the Homeland Security story. Following is an excerpt from that interview:

GAYLE KING: Mr. Vice President, according to the Associated Press, Suzanne Barr, a senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, resigned Saturday amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Suzanne Barr
JOE BIDEN: Yes, and it’s an unfortunate turn of events.

GAYLE KING: The allegations of sexual impropriety against Miss Barr include aggressive attempts to humiliate and intimidate her male counterparts.

JOE BIDEN: (After a thoughtful pause) Look, we’ve known for some time now that the Department of Homeland Security is crawling with lesbians.

Gayle King stared wide-eyed at the vice president.

JOE BIDEN: But it’s never been a concern, Gayle, because those frisky gals have done such a bang up job.

GAYLE KING: Uh… apparently Miss Barr also worked under Janet Napolitano while she was governor of Arizona, serving as her director of legislative affairs.

JOE BIDEN: Yeah, the two of them are kind of like you and Oprah.

GAYLE KING: (coughing) … Uh, there are some who wonder if Janet Napalitano is running a tight ship at the Homeland Security.

JOE BIDEN: Oh, you can count on it. Janet Nepalitano is one tough S.O.B. She puts her pants on one leg at a time like the rest of us.

GAYLE KING: Is the administration concerned with the caliber of the women working under her?

JOE BIDEN: I can assure you, the stable of girls Janet’s harnessed to service her are smart, competent and stronger than government mules.

Janet Napolitano
GAYLE KING: So you have confidence in the type of agents at Homeland Security?

JOE BIDEN: Of course I do. Look, if I need help in the middle of a hurricane or a terrorist attack I don’t wanna sit around waiting for Homeland Security agents in high heels to pack their lipstick and pantyhose. And believe me, that’s definitely not gonna be a problem with those gals! (Biden winks)

GAYLE KING: Would you say the agents under Janet Napalitano are dedicated to her?

JOE BIDEN: From what I’ve been told, the agents under Janet are eagerly chomping their way up her chain of command. Priority number one is to fulfill her insatiable demands. And apparently, sometimes after Janet’s been satisfied she’s been known to scream out the name of the agent who gratified her.

GAYLE KING: What do you personally think about the sexual misconduct charges?

JOE BIDEN: Oh, I don’t know. Heck, the gals get a little randy and next thing you know they’re being led around by their you know what. Any guy can tell you what that’s like.

GAYLE KING: You once visited Janet Napolitano when she was Governor in Arizona.

JOE BIDEN: I went out one weekend and watched her play rugby in the rain with about a dozen other gals. Janet was out there in her dungarees, unshaven, her hair matted with sweat, wrestling around in the mud with a grunting group of grimacing women. She’s a very physical competitor.

GAYLE KING: And she has a motorcycle?

JOE BIDEN: She’s got a big ol’ Harley Davidson. After her rugby game we chatted a few minutes before she and one of her gal pals straddled that big vibrating hog and roared off into the sunset together, undoubtedly relishing the big, warm, pulsating machine churning and twisting between their legs.

GAYLE KING: There’s a rumor that officials have been hesitant to reproach the female agents at Homeland Security.

JOE BIDEN: Well, I can’t say I blame ‘em. I mean, have you ever seen an angry lesbian?

GAYLE KING: Well, I uh…

JOE BIDEN: Imagine a hungry pit bull on bath salts.

GAYLE KING: Thank you for visiting with us today, Mr. Vice President.

JOE BIDEN: My pleasure, Gayle. You and Oprah should have lunch with me and Mrs. Vice President soon.

GAYLE KING: I’ll see what I can do.

Vice President Joe Biden, speaking earlier today in Iowa said, “Yes, we do” want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars“On top of the trillions of dollars of spending that we have already cut, we’re gonna ask – yes – we’re gonna ask the wealthy to pay more,” said Biden. “My heart breaks, come on man. You know the phrase they always use? Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do in one regard. We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super wealthy. That’s not a tax raise, that’s called fairness where I come from

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CNN Political Reporter Shannon Travis
Asheville, North Carolina (CNN) – Mitt Romney’s campaign seized on what Republicans called a “stunning admission” made Tuesday by Vice President Joe Biden when he said the middle class “has been buried” the last four years, putting the Obama campaign on defense.

During a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina, the vice president reiterated recent attacks against his Republican opponents: claiming that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s economic plans would raise taxes on middle class families.

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“This is deadly earnest,” Biden said. “How they can justify, how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years? How in the Lord’s name can they justify raising their taxes? We’ve seen this movie before.”

Republicans have taken off on part of those comments.

A tweet from Romney’s account read: “Agree with @JoeBiden, the middle class has been buried the last 4 years, which is why we need a change in November.”

A spokesman for his campaign went further.

“Vice President Biden made a stunning admission today and we couldn’t agree more: the middle class has been ‘buried’ under the last four years of this President’s policies,” wrote Curt Cashour, the Virginia Communications Director for the Romney campaign.

“Under President Obama, the middle class has suffered from crushing unemployment, rising prices and falling incomes. They can’t afford to be ‘buried’ for four more years. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will take our nation in a new direction and are offering exactly what hardworking families need – real reforms for a real recovery.”

At a campaign event in Iowa, Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, also pounced on his counterpart’s comments.

“Of course the middle class has been buried. They are being buried by regulations, they are being buried by taxes…they are being buried by borrowing, they are being buried by the Obama administration’s economic failures,” Ryan said. “You see the Obama economic agenda failed not because it was stopped, it failed because it was passed.”

Though Biden’s comments seemed intended to echo past comments – that middle class families have been hit hard in the trouble economy – they nonetheless forced the Obama campaign to go on defense.

“As the Vice President has been saying all year and again in his remarks today, the middle class was punished by the failed Bush policies that crashed our economy – and a vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is a return to those failed policies,” an Obama campaign official said. “With more than five million private-sector jobs created since 2010, the Vice President and President Obama will continue to help the middle class recover and move the nation forward.”

– CNN Political Producer Shawna Shepherd contributed to this report.

In Florida this afternoon, Vice President Joe Biden reminded supporters that thanks to President Obama, they could now get colonoscopies without a co-pay.

During his speech, Biden reminded the audience that some of their Republican friends would distort Obama’s record on Medicare.

“Everyone knows, everyone in this room knows that President Obama has increased the benefits available to people on Medicare by the action he took,” Biden said. “You are now able to go get a wellness exam, and guys, if you conclude you need a colonoscopy because of the feeling you had or you need a breast health examination, you don’t have to pay a co-pay for that.”

Biden made his remarks during a campaign event at the Century Village Clubhouse in Boca Raton, Fla.

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