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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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To: Sub-Driver

Bak-Sheesh! Years ago he told us he was the son of a Welsh coal miner.


21 posted on 07/24/2013 6:53:56 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Tax-chick

The number of references to himself (I, me, my) in just this short article is amazing. A total obsession with his own sense of importance and gradiosity. Just like Obama.


22 posted on 07/24/2013 6:55:50 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Sub-Driver

His Indian name is chief running eagle.
He’s so full of crap he can’t get off he ground.


23 posted on 07/24/2013 6:57:11 AM PDT by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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To: Iron Munro

Dot and feather.


24 posted on 07/24/2013 6:58:33 AM PDT by Zuse
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To: Sub-Driver

Churchill Ward and Elizabeth Warren are relations of his?

Remarkable.


25 posted on 07/24/2013 6:58:47 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Dumb as a brick.


26 posted on 07/24/2013 6:59:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Sub-Driver

27 posted on 07/24/2013 6:59:34 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Sub-Driver

I have known some stupid people in all of my years on this planet but Plugs takes the prize!


28 posted on 07/24/2013 7:01:35 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I was elected to the United States Senate when I was a 29-year-old kid back in 1972
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And he has been sucking at the Government tit ever since.


29 posted on 07/24/2013 7:02:59 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Jim from C-Town

Dot not feather.....


30 posted on 07/24/2013 7:04:59 AM PDT by shankbear (The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
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To: Iron Munro

Biden narrowly escapes monkey threat in India

Jul. 23, 2013 1:34pm Meredith Jessup

During Joe Biden’s diplomatic trip to India this week — or, as Biden may understand it, the largest 7-11 he’s ever visited — security personnel surrounding the vice president worked extra hard to protect him from a unique threat: monkeys.

http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2013/07/23/biden-narrowly-escapes-monkey-threat-in-india/


31 posted on 07/24/2013 7:06:11 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Starboard

Yes. Apparently there are a few people in India willing to listen to him blather. Maybe there was free food and booze.


32 posted on 07/24/2013 7:07:03 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Thomas will explain everything.")
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To: Sub-Driver

From where? The Black Hole of Calcutta?............


33 posted on 07/24/2013 7:07:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Sub-Driver

34 posted on 07/24/2013 7:08:14 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Sub-Driver; Larry Lucido; F15Eagle

Was he in India for a wedding?


35 posted on 07/24/2013 7:08:52 AM PDT by Gamecock (Member: NAACAC)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

You’re correct.
Them “east Indians” were Limeys.


36 posted on 07/24/2013 7:10:06 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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To: Sub-Driver

Biden said, “We’re the Fugawi.”


37 posted on 07/24/2013 7:12:03 AM PDT by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama wants to be king so he appointed a court jester.


38 posted on 07/24/2013 7:13:17 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Somebody put a name tag on him and drop him off at the nearest bus stop..........”

My name is Vijay Biden. People call me Gunga Dumb.


39 posted on 07/24/2013 7:16:10 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Sub-Driver

That feller might'a said he's from Indy, mind you.

40 posted on 07/24/2013 7:19:55 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be what you might have been.)
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