![Caption: The October 19 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands October 12), "Why Joe is No Joke," features Joe Biden as an "inconvenient truth teller" who has bucked President Obama on health-care reform and Afghanistan. Plus, opposing arguments on whether the war in Afghanistan can still be won, Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, a profile of the scientist who denied the causes of AIDS as he now works to cure cancer, and a roundtable with the minds behind the movie, "Where the Wild Things Are.".](http://www.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_lightbox/hash/11/28/11283e6ac81a79fd3dba83c1c2a75eac.jpg "Caption: The October 19 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands October 12), "Why Joe is No Joke," features Joe Biden as an "inconvenient truth teller" who has bucked President Obama on health-care reform and Afghanistan. Plus, opposing")
Though his vice presidency has been ladled in gaffes one after the other, Vice President Biden is showing a tougher side now-especially when it comes to Afghanistan. Serving 26 years on the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Biden “isn’t shy to share his opinions or exert his influence.”
Rasmussen Reports finds that Forty-six percent of U.S. voters have a favorable opinion of Vice President Joseph Biden. He is viewed favorably by 77% of Democrats.
NPR says that President Obama took a risk in adding Biden to the White House, but many think Biden will help the President “find a middle ground and moderate the risk of the Afghanistan decision, Obama will have reason to be glad about his gamble.”
NPR released an article three days ago labeling Vice President Biden as “this week’s other balloon boy.” But why so much flack over Biden? He's the man President Obama is looking to for opinions on what to do in Afghanistan.
Newsweek notes, “On Afghanistan in particular, the vice president's once lonesome position now has high-level support. The president himself seems to be looking for a middle way—not pulling out of Afghanistan, but at the same time not sending in the more than 40,000 troops requested by the U.S. ground commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal.”
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, tells viewers he should resign from office on principle alone if the president sends more troops into Afghanistan. Huffington believes "Biden, for the good of the country, should escalate his willingness to act on those reservations. What he must not do is follow the same weak and worn-out pattern of ‘opposition’ we’ve become all-too-accustomed to, first with Vietnam and then with Iraq. You know the drill: after the dust settles, and the country begins to look back and not-so-charitably wonder, ‘what were they thinking?’"
With many mixed feeling and outspoken opposition, such as Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), the president has tried to reach a decision. President Obama has held five meetings these past few weeks with advisors concerning U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the decision to send in more troops.
What impact do you think Vice President Biden has in President Obama’s decision?
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