White House: Obama will keep Biden as VP

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Washington.-The White House said today that President Barack Obama keep his vice president Joe Biden as his running mate, after some comments prompted Biden to Obama asked Republicans change partners.

The White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said this during a regular press briefing in which he described the GOP effort as attempts to divert attention from political issues.

Republicans “know that what they are saying is ridiculous,” said Carney.

Carney was referring to comments made by Biden this week at a campaign event in Virginia in connection with the reform of Wall Street. Biden told a crowd mixed race at the Republican approach regarding the financial industry “chained again.” The Republican party angered by the racial message of the comment and asked leave Obama Biden as his running mate.

“The vice president spoke on Wall Street reform,” Carney said today, noting that Republicans are trying to “make a fuss about nothing” and that the Republican Party is making this effort because “they are losing political debates fairly overwhelming “.

Xinhua