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Oh, That Joe! (No. 34 in a Series) -- Biden Offers Self Up for Adoption
October 28, 2008 5:19 PM
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Tuesday afternoon continued his three-day Florida swing with a visit to Kilwin’s Ice Cream & Candy Shop in The Villages, traditionally a Republican stronghold, where just last month GOP Veep nominee Sarah Palin drew a crowd of 60,000 supporters.
“I’m Joe – not the plumber – Joe the Biden,” the loquacious Blue Hen declared.
Later, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate made an interesting claim to the geriatric audience.
“In Delaware, we have a law – you can adopt someone younger than you,” Biden said to the retirement community crowd. “You can adopt someone older than you. I’m available for adoption.”
As he chowed down on an ice cream cone, Biden asked one Sunshine State supporter in the jam-packed shop if she had voted already.
When she replied in the affirmative, the Delaware lawmaker said “I love ya” and planted a kiss on her cheek.
But that supporter might found herself outnumbered in this GOP-leaning region.
During his brief visit to the store, Biden was joined by his colleague Sen. Bill Nelson, D-FL.
“This is really going into the lion’s den and bearding the lion,” Nelson remarked.
-- Jake Tapper and Matthew Jaffe
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See Joe Run
See Joe run for the Whitehouse to help us in unifying the country and placing true leadership and intelligence back into the highest office in the land as he partners with Barack to restore respect across the country for all the hard working Joes/Josephines and a stronger America
Go Joe GO! All the way
Posted by: .Cece | Oct 29, 2008 10:50:23 AM
60,000? Come on. Talk about in the tank. That merits a correction. Or at least, "where Palin spoke in front of a crowd that the McCain campaign claimed to be 60,000."
Posted by: ellen palin | Oct 28, 2008 9:32:43 PM
McCain needs another boost. More Joe Biden speeches please...
Posted by: Cliff | Oct 28, 2008 8:47:33 PM
I'll adopt you Joe!
Obama/Biden 08!
Posted by: Common Sense | Oct 28, 2008 7:39:15 PM
I simply love joe! He has no airs around him. Very down to earth.A guy you can have beer with anyday, anytime!!
Posted by: themanwhosawtomorrow | Oct 28, 2008 7:23:45 PM
I volunteered for Joe Biden in Iowa, and while I can't claim to know him as if he were my neighbor I do have a better perspective on him than the Republican trolls who just show up to make a bunch of negative comments. Joe is a great guy and one hell of a knowlegable one too. I treasure the time I got to spend around he and his lovely wife, Jill and I'll be proud to have him as VP.
Posted by: Donna Hughes | Oct 28, 2008 7:11:20 PM
If Joe Biden worked at your office you would avoid him.
Annoying, thinks he is clever, you would wonder what he does to earn his paycheck; related to the boss maybe?
No wonder in the 2008 Democratic primary in his home state of Delaware only around 2,000 people voted for him.
Posted by: Will Stanton | Oct 28, 2008 7:03:09 PM
Joe Biden is the most authentic guy in politics. He is as human as they come. He could be your next-door neighbor, but also just happens to also be an emissary on the world stage at times.
He truly loves people and is at home campaigning. If he can't win them over, then it can't be done.
Posted by: Donna Hughes | Oct 28, 2008 6:44:15 PM
M.E.,
McCain has no chance in hell of winning PA.
Latest PA poll
Obama 52%
McCain 41%
We are next door and I can tell you the polls are pretty close to what the margin of victory will be even in Jack Murtha country where my felllow "rednecks" live.
However, it's a free country and you are allowed to dream. So dream on my dear friend.
Posted by: Steve_NJ | Oct 28, 2008 6:31:26 PM
Tina,
Re: MCCAIN AND KHALIDI
During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.
A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)
The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."
Posted by: karronna | Oct 28, 2008 6:28:52 PM
This is one of the many differences between Obama-Biden and McCain-Palin.
Obama and Biden go to GOP strongholds and make their case to these Republican voters.
McCain and Palin just stick protectively to GOP areas whose votes they've already got locked up.
And that's one of the big reasons they're losing.
Posted by: R | Oct 28, 2008 6:25:55 PM
uhhh Jake...the McCain camp put out the number 60 thousand while the fire marshall stated it was closer to 20 thousand. This was not the first time McCain camp had inflated the numbers.....
Posted by: Grissom | Oct 28, 2008 6:24:00 PM
Crazy Joe, potentially one heartbeat and ice cream cone away from the presidency.
Crazy, man, crazy.
Posted by: Captain America | Oct 28, 2008 6:18:44 PM
Joe the Biden rules!
Posted by: Ryan C (That One) | Oct 28, 2008 6:16:07 PM
I've been hearing that BO will win the popular vote and Mcain the electorial vote. Where did we encounter that before? Now wouldn't that be neat! McCain knows something since he's spending a lot of time in PA, my home state. Maybe the polls are inflated by the media even though they're closing quick...and with the stocks up 900 today, crude oil dropping to it lowest price in a year, home prices falling, maybe there something in the mist.hmmmm
Posted by: M.E. | Oct 28, 2008 6:15:43 PM
>>Also, the Gov. of Hawaii is preventing the release of Obama's real birth certificate until after the election.
Jake: Don't you think your readers need to know about Obama's past?<<
Tina... do some research and stop beating a dead horse. Let's get America back to being the greatest nation in the world, not the laughing stock we are now. VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN. I hope it is a landslide victory.
Posted by: Lasandra | Oct 28, 2008 6:14:21 PM
is he ridiculous or just s t u p i d ?
Posted by: ron | Oct 28, 2008 6:08:09 PM
And who would that "UNBIASED news outlet" be ml, FAUX News maybe?
Posted by: JR | Oct 28, 2008 5:58:32 PM
And Joe (a REAL Joe) pays his own way. Buys his own clothes, pays his taxes and doesn't pad his expense accounts to pay for his family and friends. He doesn't expect the public to pay his way for him, unlike the other VP candidate.
Posted by: JR | Oct 28, 2008 5:56:43 PM
Here is an article being reported by an UNBIASED news outlet. Since ABC will not give Americans fair and balanced reporting.. we Americans have the responsibility to do it for our fellow Americans.
"Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.
But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.
Obama's affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."
Obama's interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union."
Posted by: ml | Oct 28, 2008 5:50:56 PM
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