Biden hosts recovering son's fundraiser

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Biden hosts recovering son's fundraiser
By Eric Zimmermann - 05/15/10 02:21 PM ET


Vice President Joe Biden hosted a fundraiser this afternoon for his son, whose still in the hospital recovering from a mild stroke.

The VP gathered about 150 people at his home in Greenville, Del., today to raise money for his son's re-election bid as Delaware Attorney General.

Though Beau Biden was unable to make the fundraiser due to his hospitalization, the elder Biden said his son is now "100%."

"I promise you. I give you my word as a Biden: He’s doing well. The doctor said he’s 100 percent now. Everything is squared away. Thank God for big favors," Biden told the crowd, according to a pool report.

But Beau wasn't totally absent from the soiree. He addressed the crowd via speakerphone from his hospital room.

“I just wanted to call and let each and every one of you know how much I appreciate your support for me and for the family on so many levels,” he said. “I’m looking forward to getting back to work and running for re-election as well.”

But then I thought: "No, that's something that only the ordinary people have to ever do."

So far, one survived. Makes me mad.

Begging people for money they cannot afford to give to pay bills you cannot afford to have.

Biden and those in the upper class will never ever know what we're talking about.

... and always has. He's one of the few politicians who came to DC and just did his job. That hardly puts them in the upper class.

Hekate

Biden is a good guy.

This is family values stuff here.

Joe did this for his son. Nothing jaded to be seen here.

:shrug:

and affordable health care. Does anyone know who he is running against?

him.

anti-Democratic forces are out to unrec this post on Beau Biden's getting "100%! from Joe's word as a Biden"..at his fundraiser for Attorney General of Delaware.

And our pointless continuation of an unwinnable war?

I hope the young man recovers fully...but why doesn't his dad get it? He's ok with his kid being affected like this just so we can look "tough"?

even though they call it a "stroke" ...Beau is quite young to have that condition.

I feel bad that Joe thinks this is a good time for a fundraiser for his son...if his son doesn't need medical bills paid for. Seems kind of "opportunistic." Especially since Joe thinks that Beau will be his political successor. :shrug:

You know, Joe almost died in 1988 from an aneurysm.

Not nice at all. Next will you be smugly approving if something dreadful happens to Sasha or Malia?

Hekate

And Biden's son is there, in part, because of the feeling that he needs to be there so his dad looks "tough". We've got to take this party through an anti-"toughness" twelve-step program.

I wish the young man a full recovery.

... ask if he had some special dispensation so he didn't have to go? Your line of thinking is lose-lose.

Hekate

This man who opposes family rights for others, grandstanding with an oath on his family name. A pretty picture indeed.