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Biden Talks of 'Outsized Influence' of Jews: 'The Influence Is Immense'
Weekly Standard ^ | 5/22/13 | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 05/22/2013 7:35:08 AM PDT by Nachum

At a Jewish American Heritage Month reception last night in Washington, D.C., Vice President Joe Biden talked about Jews, power, and influence.

“The truth is that Jewish heritage, Jewish culture, Jewish values are such an essential part of who we are that it’s fair to say that Jewish heritage is American heritage,” Biden said, according to the pool report. “The Jewish people have contributed greatly to America. No group has had such an outsized influence per capita as all of you standing before you and all of those who went before me and all of those who went before you.”

“You make up 11 percent of the seats in the United States Congress. You make up one-third of all Nobel laureates,” he said. “So many notions that are embraced by this nation that particularly emanate from over 5000 years of Jewish history, tradition and culture: independence, individualism, fairness, decency, justice, charity. These are all as you say, as I learned early on as a Catholic being educated by my friends, this tzedakah.”

“The embrace of immigration” is part of that, as is the involvement of Jews in social justice movements.

“You can’t talk about the civil rights movement in this country without talking about Jewish freedom riders and Jack Greenberg,” he said, telling a story about seeing a group of Jewish activists at a segregated movie theater in Delaware. “You can’t talk about the women’s movement without talking about Betty Friedan” or American advances in science and technology without mentioning Einstein and Carl Sagan, or music and Gershwin, Bob Dylan and “so, so, so many other people.”

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KEYWORDS: biden; influence; jews; outsized
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He was a way with words. A regular word merchant, or something.
1 posted on 05/22/2013 7:35:08 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Obama’s Impeachment Insurance is working overtime.


2 posted on 05/22/2013 7:37:34 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Nachum

Sounds familiar - I think satan talks that way too, Joe...


3 posted on 05/22/2013 7:38:04 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Keep your eyes on Jesus. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.)
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To: Nachum

Yesterday I posted a speech Biden made in which he is telegraphing exactly what the plans of the elite in power are up to.

No one wanted to listen to it.


4 posted on 05/22/2013 7:39:26 AM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Nachum
'Jews' Talk of 'Outsized Flatulence' of Biden: 'The Stench Is Immense'
5 posted on 05/22/2013 7:40:07 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Nachum

Uh, yeah, Biden is trying to flatter so that his Boss Clown’s rabid hatred of the Jewish people isn’t noticed.


6 posted on 05/22/2013 7:42:05 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Nachum

I’m surprised he didn’t say “You can’t talk about the Titanic without talking about Ice Berg.”


7 posted on 05/22/2013 7:42:25 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Lorianne

‘No one wanted to listen to it.’

It’s not that no one wanted to listen to it, it’s that we can’t do anything about it.


8 posted on 05/22/2013 7:42:37 AM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Servant of the Cross

lol


9 posted on 05/22/2013 7:42:59 AM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: Nachum

10 posted on 05/22/2013 7:45:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: Nachum

A genuine “you people” message.

Biden is a creep.


11 posted on 05/22/2013 7:51:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Nachum

American Jews better start looking over their shoulder. Vice President Goebbels is opening the dialogue.


12 posted on 05/22/2013 7:55:37 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Nachum

Praise or a warning?


13 posted on 05/22/2013 8:00:29 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Nachum
They work hard, are devoted to their families and value education. Basically everything the Democrats oppose. Which makes me ask "Why are they so @#$(%#@$( tied to the Dems?"
14 posted on 05/22/2013 8:08:03 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: KarlInOhio

“Which makes me ask “Why are they so @#$(%#@$( tied to the Dems?”

The answer is largely that when Jews rebel against their own God, all that is left is a vacuum. That vacuum is filled by various ‘feel good’ causes including all of the socialist spew of the DemocRATic party. It is really quite natural.


15 posted on 05/22/2013 8:11:48 AM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

‘A couple of rabbis walk into a bar....’


16 posted on 05/22/2013 8:21:37 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Nachum

I forget who said it, but he said it best: ‘Jews need to preach what they practice.’


17 posted on 05/22/2013 8:38:23 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: Nachum

Right after plugs remarks Abe Foxman wrote a big check to thew DNC with an apology note telling them he was sorry for being Jewish and once thinking a nice thought about Ronald Reagan. Abe felt better afterward.


18 posted on 05/22/2013 9:36:25 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Nachum

The first thing that came to mind is Joe so overdid the B.S. kiss assing he gave a whole generation of anti-semites new quotes to mine.

Thanks, Joe. I appreciate that. Really.

(yes, sarcasm)


19 posted on 05/22/2013 11:08:06 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Nachum

Well, Amercian Jews voted for the guy and his party at a rate of about 85%, so maybe they got what they asked for.


20 posted on 05/22/2013 11:11:54 AM PDT by turducken
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