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Which candidate lets his old mother live with him?
How people treat elders is how they treat God in my opinion.
On Dec. 18 of that year, before he took office, his wife and family went out to get a Christmas tree. A tractor-trailer broad-sided their car, killing his wife and year-old daughter and injuring his toddler sons, Beau and Hunter. One son had a skull fracture and the other had many broken bones. Biden thought about giving up the Senate seat before he had served a day, but he later took the oath of office in the hospital. When his sons were well enough, he began to commute 125 miles each way to the Capitol. As a single dad, he did not wish to give up his place with his sons.
His sons recovered and are grown, but his 90-year-old mother, who is apparently a wellspring of pithy sayings for his use on the campaign trail, lives with him. In the same house, he helped provide hospice care for his father for the final months of his life. To this day, Biden rides Amtrak for the 250-mile roundtrip to and from D.C.
Biden remarried five years after the accident. Or as he told his listeners at Havenwood, he had the good fortune to have not just one love of his life, but two.
As for real fortune, Biden prides himself, at least publicly, with being one of the poorest members of the Senate and the only major presidential candidate who is not a millionaire. As of last March, his net worth was $100,000 to $150,000. He says he didn't know when he entered public life that the point was to make a lot of money.
I worked for Senator Biden's campaign when I was in High School- I'm from Delaware. I think it was actually his first run. I don't think he has a shot but it's neat that he is running.
Solely from the debates, I've liked him more than the other democrats. In my opinion, he has a lot of tact unlike a few others. But I won't start a big debate about the candidates.
Well I have loved Joe Biden for many years. I will vote for him in the primaries if he is still running by the time VA votes. He won't win, but he will have my support for being a reasonable man who sometimes says crazy things, but we love him anyway.
I LOVE Joe Biden and it hurts me too that he's not further along in the race.
My guess is that he'll be made Secretary of State at which he would probably
be the best our generation has known when all is said and done!
I'll be voting for Barack because I think he'd be a thousand times better for us than Hilary who has now pissed me off and lost my vote!
Unfortunately, Biden probably won't win the Primaries (though he'll have my vote too). So mentioning Ron Paul is like mentioning the Jacksonville Jags in a discussion about the Redskins and their playoff chances. Two different conferences that have the possibility of facing each other but as of now... irrelevant. Still made me smile though.
Is Joe Biden our Bhutto? Sure feels like it.
Below is a snippet from his Iowa Q&A session with attendees.
"You've got to hold employers who knowingly hire illegals, and they do it to drive down wages in most cases, you've got to hold them criminally responsible," Biden said to applause.
Unless a presidential candidate is talking about 1) cutting federal spending, 2) the size of the federal debt ($9 Trillion), and 3) the size of the federal unfunded liabilities ($60 Trillion) then they are just like the others and any one of those new world order minions will do the trick for the global elite. Please, please, please wake up before it is too late.
Ron Paul 2008
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