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Joe Biden Claims Indian Relatives
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Posted on 07/24/2013 6:40:36 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

oe Biden Claims Indian Relatives Daniel Halper July 24, 2013 8:04 AM

Vice President Joe Biden, speaking today at the Bombay stock exchange, claimed Indian relatives.

"Thank you all for giving me this opportunity. It’s an honor to be back in India and to be here in Mumbai," Biden said to kick off his speech. "Off script for a second here, I was reminded -- I was elected to the United States Senate when I was a 29-year-old kid back in 1972, and one of the first letters I received and I regret I never followed up on it. Maybe some genealogist in audience can follow up for me, but I received a letter from a gentleman named Biden -- Biden, my name -- from Mumbai, asserting that we were related. (Laughter.) Seriously. Suggesting that our mutual, great, great, great, something or other worked for the East India Trading Company back in the 1700s and came to Mumbai.

"And so I was thinking about it, if that's true, I might run here in India for office. (Laughter.) I might be qualified. But I’ve never followed up on it. But now that I’m back for the multiple times, I’m going to follow up to find out whether there is a Biden and whether we’re related. I hope he’s in good standing if we are. (Laughter.)"

Biden also said that after this trip, he'd be able to return to Delaware and brag to the Indian-American community there.

Any weekend in Delaware -- we have a very significant and tight Indian-American community -- any weekend in Delaware, you can find the Delaware United Cricket Club competing. And now I have bragging rights. I will be able to go back and tell my friends who belong to that club that I visited the home of the best cricket team in the world. It will give me some reason to -- (applause). You won the International Cricket Council Championship.

And as an Irish American, it pleased my heart to see you beat Britain, England. (Laughter.) That's a joke, by the way, for the press. (Laughter.) I don't want to hear a headline: Biden at Odds with British Empire, you know? (Laughter.) But it does make me feel good. (Laughter.)


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Somebody put a name tag on him and drop him off at the nearest bus stop..........
1 posted on 07/24/2013 6:40:36 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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so...that crack he made about the 7-Eleven stores a few years ago is now okay?


2 posted on 07/24/2013 6:41:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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He’s unclean and inarticulate.


3 posted on 07/24/2013 6:45:08 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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Is he related to Elizabeth Warren?


4 posted on 07/24/2013 6:45:10 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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Do Biden and Obama ever talk about anything other than themselves?


5 posted on 07/24/2013 6:45:19 AM PDT by Starboard
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Please, please, please, PLEASE move to India and run for office, Mr. Biden.

(Sorry, India - I've got nothing against you, but I've got to look out for me and mine first)

6 posted on 07/24/2013 6:45:28 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: Starboard

No.


7 posted on 07/24/2013 6:45:48 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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Vice President Joe Biden, speaking today at the Bombay stock exchange . . .

Did he use his 7-Eleven accent?

8 posted on 07/24/2013 6:45:51 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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They forgot the part where Joe wants to prove to them that he’s part Indian and puts his hand in front of his mouth and takes it away....repeating this action over and over making “WOO WOO WOO” sounds.


9 posted on 07/24/2013 6:47:25 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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Crack head Joe, a legend in his own mind.


10 posted on 07/24/2013 6:47:48 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Starboard

No.


11 posted on 07/24/2013 6:47:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Thomas will explain everything.")
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Seriously. Suggesting that our mutual, great, great, great, something or other worked for the East India Trading Company back in the 1700s and came to Mumbai.

Whoa, Joe. Be careful there. Claiming that you are Indian because an ancestor worked for the East India Trading Company is like claiming you are black because your ancestor owned a plantation. The white English who worked for the East India Trading Company weren't exactly gentlemen to the native populations they ruled over.

12 posted on 07/24/2013 6:47:50 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Does this mean that Joe will fire a couple of warning shots with his bow rather than a shotgun?


13 posted on 07/24/2013 6:47:55 AM PDT by TYVets
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and one of the first letters I received and I regret I never followed up on it.

our mutual, great, great, great, something or other

now that I’m back for the multiple times,

The guy just has a way with words...

14 posted on 07/24/2013 6:48:08 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Stand up, Sahib.


15 posted on 07/24/2013 6:48:16 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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16 posted on 07/24/2013 6:48:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro (They Old. That's Old School People. We In A New School, Our Generation)
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Biden is obama’s life insurance policy.


17 posted on 07/24/2013 6:48:50 AM PDT by Ditter
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And just “No,” but even when Obama and Biden are talking about themselves, they are lying.


18 posted on 07/24/2013 6:50:22 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Thomas will explain everything.")
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I was thinking toe tag and morgue.


19 posted on 07/24/2013 6:51:05 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (")
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My name is Mahatma Biden. I seek the way to Calcutta, please.

They made me eat Cow in the USA.


20 posted on 07/24/2013 6:52:16 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
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