On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

In 2008, a Pakistani religious leader issued a fatwā on President Asif Ali Zardari for " indecent gestures " toward Sarah Palin, U. S. Vice Presidential candidate.

On 20 March 2008, Reuters reported that President Guebuza had dismissed the Chief and Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Lieutenant General Lagos Lidimo ( FRELIMO ) and Lieutenant General Mateus Ngonhamo ( RENAMO ), replacing them with Brigadier General Paulino Macaringue as Chief of Defence Force and Major-general Olímpio Cambora as Vice-Chief of Defence Force.

Biden was elected Vice President of the United States in 2008 ; on 18 January 2009 Glenys Kinnock revealed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that she and Neil Kinnock had received a personal invitation from Biden to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama and Biden on 20 January 2009 at the United States Capitol in Washington.

Vice President Dick Cheney visited Oman in 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2008.

The first Presidential election to include neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President on a major party ticket since 1952 came in 2008 when President George W. Bush had already served two terms and Vice President Cheney chose not to run.

Vice President Dick Cheney met with Vice President-elect Joe Biden at Number One Observatory Circle on November 13, 2008, representing a transition between Vice Presidencies. For much of its existence, the office of Vice President was seen as little more than a minor position.

After his tenure, and during the 2008 Presidential campaign, both Vice Presidential candidates, Sarah Palin, and Joe Biden, stated that the office had expanded too much under Cheney's tenure and both had planned to reduce the role to simply being an adviser to the President.

In 2008, a bill titled the " Former Vice President Protection Act " was passed by the House of Representatives.

The Green Party has contested four U. S. presidential elections: in 1996 and 2000 with Ralph Nader for President and Winona LaDuke as Vice President, in 2004 with David Cobb for President and Pat LaMarche for Vice President, and in 2008 with Cynthia McKinney for President and Rosa Clemente for Vice President.

In 2008, Joseph Biden of Delaware was elected Vice President and was re-elected U. S. Senator, as Johnson had done in 1960.

However, soon after, on July 16, 2008, a presidentially sponsored bill to increase Argentina's export taxes on the basis of a sliding scale met with a legislative deadlock, and was ultimately defeated by the tie-breaking " against " vote of Vice President Julio Cobos.

On 27 July 2008, the tax reform was put down by a votation at the Senate, which came to be decided by the vote of Vice President Julio Cobos, effectively breaking the governmental coalition Plural Consensus.

It was announced by Nokia in August 2008 that Aho would be joining Nokia as Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations and Responsibility and become a member of its executive board.

In September 2008, Bernhard created controversy during one of her one-woman shows by saying that Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would be " gang-raped by my big black brothers " if she entered Manhattan.

Future U. S. Vice Presidential candidate James Stockdale and decorated U. S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the Hanoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who spent parts of his five and a half years as a POW there.

The room is named after Craig F Knight, an alumnus of the college who was invested as the College ’ s first member of the Vice Chancellor ’ s Circle in 2008.

On 12 April 2008, Hu Jintao met with Taiwan's Vice President-elect Vincent Siew in the latter's role as chairman of the Cross-strait Common Market Foundation during the Boao Forum for Asia.

( Photo taken in 2006 ; by 2008, the telescopes had been removed )

Image: LantsFeedMemorial01. jpg | Photo of memorial commissioned by Bill Lant as a tribute to those who perished from the tornado of May 10th 2008.

Photo taken during the flood of April 2008

A Photo Documentation, Hastenrath, S., 2008, Sundog Publishing, Madison, WI, ISBN 978-0-9729033-3-2, 144 pp.

* 2008 Photo Feature

* LA Weekly: Photo Slide Show-35 Photos from 2008 of the mansion at Disneyland ( Anaheim ).

* LONDON PIXELS London Flugtag 2008 Photo set

In May 2008 The Blacksmoke Organisation exhibited a new artwork entitled " Tom & Jerry " at the Photo Fictions: New Narrative Photography exhibition, held at the Show Cave Gallery in Los Angeles.

Photo: w: Cesc Fàbregas | Cesc Fàbregas duels with w: Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira | Anderson in a football ( soccer ) | football match in 2008.

* Photo Essay: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, William Wheeler and Don Duncan World Politics Review, 11 March 2008

* Photo report from Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2008

Photo by keagiles ( Sept. 2008 ) from the top of Trail Ridge Road, Rocky Mountain National Park ( RMNP ), Colorado, USA.

* Photo Essay about Cuba in 2008 in The Walrus

* 2008 Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Galerie du Jour agnès b. és Galerie Caméra Obscura, Paris

During Computex 2008, Universal abit unveiled the FunFab P80 Digital Photo Frame and Printer.

* Urquhart Castle Photo Gallery-April 2008

* Photo gallery: Food vendor stands at 2008 North Carolina State Fair

In 2008 Binatone was appointed Global Licensee of Motorola Digital Photo Frames, Video and Baby Monitors and North American Licensee of Motorola Digital Corded and Cordless Phones.

* Mozilla at 10: A Photo Tour of the Lizard ’ s Lair — Dotzler in WIRED Gallery celebrating 10th anniversary of the birth of the Mozilla project ( March 29, 2008 ).

* Okmok Volcano Ash Cloud Photo page of the Okmok Volcano ash could, July 22, 2008

* Photo reportage from NY Auto Show: 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

Chase Utley, Phillies Photo Day 2008

* Photo Gallery Villa Winter August 2008

Photo: March 2008.