Democratic Primaries
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Joe Biden unspools an endless supply of Bidenisms on the campaign trail.Joe Biden was slaloming through his stump speech here the other day when he decided to begin imparting some family wisdom, passing along a few of the aphorisms he'd learned over his 77 years. With the grace of God and goodwill of the neighbors, as my grandfather used to say, he began before turning to one from his father: Dont tell me what you value, show me your budget. Ill tell you what you value.
His wife, too, had a saying he wanted to share: My wife has an expression: Any country that out educates us will out compete us. Finally, there was his mother: If my mother were here, shed say, Joe, hush up and start taking some questions.?
These Bidenisms, whether by design or simply because its the way he talks, come tucked into his often meandering speeches in a way that speaks to the family heritage, folksiness and twinkle-eyed nostalgia that have become core elements of his political brand.
Biden quotes most often from his father, a car sales manager who died in 2002, and his strong-willed mother, who died in 2010. His expressions hark to a humble upbringing in Scranton, Pa., and Wilmington, Del., drawing attention to middle-class roots with sayings that anyone can live by: Without your word, youre not a man (his dad); As long as a persons alive, they have the obligation to strive (his mom).
My dad had an expression, Biden said in the first speech of his campaign, and almost every one since. He said, Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. Its about your dignity. Its about respect.?
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Biden's from Scranton, and I grew up in rural western PA.
Joe talks the way my family and neighbors talked.
Not funny; not corny; not 'put on'.
Just plain talk from the heart.
Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. Its about your dignity. Its about respect.?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
floppyboo
(2,461 posts)Kidding!
Looking forward to seeing who gets motivated to go out and caucus/vote in the next few weeks. It's all been so much guessing up to now, with the centre and progressives each crossing toes and fingers.
Good luck to all!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)Sanders will be the senator from vermont and name a few more post offices that he will be remembered for.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)being elected to office when he was 29. He decided not to to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest.
The subsequent enormous runup of wealth over the past 50 years means that's cost him the fortunes his money "working" for him that way would have created, as it has for so many around him, but...priorities and principles.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Walleye
(31,027 posts)Was around $300,000, and that was his house. They are swiftboating by attacking his strength, ethics.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Secretary of State and senator, approval ratings up in the 60s and 70s, far exceeding those of ANY Republican candidate, so trustworthiness and integrity HAD to be swiftboated.
Whatever there is to admire and want is what they destroy belief in.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden