Biden meets with Bill Gates

Posted: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:35 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: Joe Biden

From NBC's Savannah Guthrie

Vice President-elect Biden wasn't in Washington today just to meet with the bipartisan commission on weapons of mass destruction.

He also met with Microsoft founder Bill Gates at the transition offices here. (We'll update with details as we get them.)

*** UPDATE *** A transition source says Biden and Gates met to "discuss a wide-range of issues, including global health and development, as well the need to improve resources for secondary education, particularly for community colleges."

So, there you go.

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Joe is more of an Apple kind of guy. Things need to be laid out fairly plain and simple for someone like Joe. Joe doesn't do complex.

I'm A PC (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:51 PM)

PC's are Weapons of Mass Destruction.

S. Jobs (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:52 PM)

Biden should hold Gates to the fire for the Windows Vistas disaster!

pat huntington ny (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:53 PM)

Careful Joe B. Bill Gates can easily tell if you've been using your computer to look at porn, and we know you have.

Katie Morgan, SCal (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:54 PM)

I admire Bill Gates tremendously (as a techie and former Intel employee, AND for his more recent philanthropy), but please Joe, don't listen to his position on H1B visas!! More than enough American IT folks have lost their jobs because of the IT industry's OVERUSE of these visas.

Indie Woman in Denver (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:57 PM)

Does it strike anyone else that the incoming administration has done more in the past three weeks to advance the ball on just about every front than the current administration did in the past three years ... at least? And not only that, but they are stimulating other people like Condi Rice to actually do their jobs for a change. You may disagree with what Obama and Biden are doing, but you cannot deny that they're engaged.

Even if that's all that "change" ever amounts to, it will have been worth it just to know that there's someone minding the store again.

Anna Molly (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:01 PM)

Call Steve Jobs!

Deninge Sims, San Leandro, CA (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:19 PM)

Maybe while you are at it Joe, ask Bill to donate to the deficit. The government needs a handout after George and Dick drove it in the ground or off the cliff. One or two billions could be a starter.

Jes Marion SC (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:19 PM)

Note to Anna Molly -- yes, I agree with everything you said. Having a prez and vice-prez ENGAGED on all fronts is a wonderful thing!

Indie Woman in Denver (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:19 PM)

What Anna Molly said. Good post!!!

Tim, Albany, New York (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:21 PM)

Gates must be cashing in on his campaign contributions. Maybe he is asking for an exemption on Obama and Biden's ever-changing definition of "rich".

Parah Salin (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:26 PM)

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