Re: CV of Barack Obama's running mate Joe Biden

On Aug 25, 7:43 am, Me <BabaOhRea...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 24, 9:47 pm, The Hysterical Bride <rache...@xxxxxxx> wrote:



Born November 20 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the first of four
children.

Graduated from University of Delaware in 1965 in history and political
science and from the Syracuse University of Law in 1968.

Career Former wunderkind. Biden was 29 when he won election to the
senate in 1972, and one of the youngest senators in history. His
political star crashed though in 1988 when he was forced to end his
run for the White House after plagiarising a speech by Neil Kinnock,
then leader of Britain's Labour party.

He led the senate judiciary committee hearing into charges of sexual
harassment against the supreme court justice, Clarence Thomas.

Became chair of senate foreign relations committee in 2007.

Personal life Biden, who claims working-class Irish Catholic roots,
overcame a severe stutter as a young man.

His first wife and baby daughter were killed, and two sons injured, in
a car crash soon after his election to the senate.

Married second wife, Jill, a teacher, and had another daughter.

He had a near-death experience in 1988 because of a brain aneurysm.

Eldest son, Beau, is leaving for Iraq with Delaware national guard.

World according to Biden Voted for the war on Iraq, though turned into
one of its fiercest critics.

Advocated the partition of Iraq into Shia, Sunni and Kurdish
autonomous zones. Pushed for US intervention in Bosnia in the early
1990s.

Opposed the first Gulf war after the invasion of Kuwait.

Stuff of political legend Rides the train 125 miles every day from his
home in Wilmington, Delaware, to Washington. Has never lived in
Washington.

Not known for Staying quiet.

Best line of this election season "Rudy Giuliani. There's only three
things he mentions in a sentence - a noun, a verb, and 9/11. There's
nothing else! There's nothing else! And I mean this sincerely. He's
genuinely not qualified to be president."

Worst line of this election season Biden on Obama: "I mean, you got
the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and
clean and a nice-looking guy."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D91F3CF931A1575A...

Don't forget the sweetheart deals that he got from MBNA, the fact that
his son is a big time Washington lobbyist who's steered millions of
dollars to the University of Delaware, that he's consistently had a
plagarism problem throughout his life, that he exaggerated the number
of undergraduate degrees that he has that he exaggerated his class
standing in law school (he claimed that he finished in the top half of
his class, when in fact he finished in the bottom 10th percent- 76 out
of 85).

Joe has a penchant for uh... exaggeration shall we say.

He does have a big one. Mouth, that is.

Don't forget his insult earlier this year to Indians who own 7-11
stores and that B. Hussein Obama is "clean".

Yep!!! B. Hussein Obama has made a choice that I'm very happy with!!

Me too, he's sealed getting my vote! I'll resist posting some of the
more absurd quotes from McCain.
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