Joe Biden goes crazy for a swing state. Always has, always will.

President Barack Obama is currently taking his yearly sojourn in Martha's Vineyard, but has announced he will be returning to Washington Sunday evening to have meetings with Vice President Joe Biden and other advisers.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with local workers at the Dupont Circle Shake Shack on Friday in Washington, DC. Obama and Biden met with the workers to discuss increasing investment in re-building America's infrastructure. Image via Alex Wong/Getty Images.

Last year book royalties netted the Obama family between $100,000 and $200,000 in income. Vice President Biden's 2007 memoir, on the other hand, pulled in a grand total of $201.

Vice President Joe Biden is ready to challenge everybody now.

Robert Gates was old and retired. He was brought out of retirement to fix Donald Rumsfeld's overseas warmongering pooch-screws. He did pretty well. Now that he's retired again, will you please get the hell off his lawn?

It's not the easiest to be the niece of our extremely powerful vice-president, and according to her friends, Caroline Biden just couldn't take all that pressure.

Barack Obama is a master of the casually revealing photo. For months, you'll see the President of the United States blocking out a stiff rectangular space behind all those podiums, seeming a little vulnerably gangly in one of his slightly roomy grey or blue suits, alternating among a familiar reserve of strained expressions meant to convey leadership, certainty, disappointment, concern, reason, gravity, and occasional disgust. But then, at a regularly reaffirming clip, there are these moments when the President of the United States seems most at ease, somewhat unguarded, and most resolutely human. In these scenes, Obama's character doesn't shrink, it swells.

Obama loves Jews so much that someone once joked he would be known as "the first Jewish President". He is hosting the first second White House Seder ever tomorrow. With real rendered chicken fat! You hear that, Israel? [NYT]