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Now Joe Biden - makes off-colour joke about Ireland's religious divisions
Daily Mail ^ | 3/17/15 | Senan Molony

Posted on 03/17/2015 6:10:10 PM PDT by Libloather

Now Joe Biden manages a St Patrick's Day gaffe: Veep makes off-colour joke about Ireland's religious divisions then gets prime minister's wife's name wrong

Also got name of Irish prime minister's wife wrong and mis-named the title of a Yeats poem he selected for the occasion

Joe Biden made yet another of his trademark gaffes today as he met Ireland's prime minister to mark St Patrick's Day - then suggested one side of its sectarian divide was unwelcome in Washington.

Sporting a green tie and noticing that everyone else was also wearing one, or clad in green, he suddenly blurted: 'Anyone wearing orange is not welcome in here.'

The purported joke was a reference to Ireland's religious and political divide which was at the heart of the Troubles, the violence which killed 3,000 from the late 1960s until the start of the millennium.

Orange is the color associated with the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland, and overcoming sectarian tensions has been a major part of the effort to bring peace to the once-deeply troubled province.

Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister – whose official title is Taoiseach – and his wife Fionnuala Kenny, the guests of honour, both laughed nervously. They said nothing, but continued to smile for the cameras.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; gaffe; ireland; joke
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

It’s just stunning that this complete idiot is our VP. I hope he runs against hillarious.


21 posted on 03/17/2015 6:26:02 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Libloather

He can’t shut up

HE IS BAT**** Crazy LOL!


22 posted on 03/17/2015 6:27:12 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Biden is probably unaware that orange is one of the colors of the Irish flag.
23 posted on 03/17/2015 6:30:31 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: VeniVidiVici
But you can bet Joe knows how to spell ‘potato’.

He should, he's got one for a brain

24 posted on 03/17/2015 6:30:35 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Libloather

Joe is turning in the widening gyre. The center cannot hold.


25 posted on 03/17/2015 6:30:58 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: Libloather

Dumb-ass Obama assassination insurance.


26 posted on 03/17/2015 6:31:26 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Libloather

What an eejit.


27 posted on 03/17/2015 6:36:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Libloather

It is amazing how this guy gets away with it. Quayle misspells potato and is labeled a moron, and Watts correctly uses the word niggardly and is forced to resign and Bozo Biden can say and do nearly anything without a mention from anyone. Yeah, there’s no slant.


28 posted on 03/17/2015 6:40:57 PM PDT by rey
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To: beethovenfan

Joe Biden, Hillary,Obama and many others are proof that millions of people would vote for BOZO THE CLOWN if he has a D next to his name. What a sick joke this electorate has become.


29 posted on 03/17/2015 6:46:40 PM PDT by Baltimore ken (Baltimore Ken)
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To: rey
rey @ 28: "It is amazing how this guy gets away with it."

Not amazing at all, considering that the fifth-column leftist media are nothing but traitorous political whores and buttboys for the demonicrats (Yeah, Scott, David, and Lester, I'm talkin' about you, too!).

30 posted on 03/17/2015 7:03:37 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Libloather
It's bad enough that we have the Embarrassment-in-Chief as president without having this embarrassment, Joke Biden, as second in command.

I pray that we are relieved of these amateurs eventually when an adult can step in and restore the integrity and professionalism of the Executive Branch. It is so distressing to have to put up with these ignominious idiots for two more years.

31 posted on 03/17/2015 7:05:02 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Libloather

Well at least he didn’t misspell “potatoe”


32 posted on 03/17/2015 7:10:50 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Libloather

Democrats just cannot resist being divisive.
Chalk it up to another one of Joe’s idiotic gaffes. I wonder if Joe used his Cheshire Cat grin when he told the ‘joke’.


33 posted on 03/17/2015 7:12:52 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: exit82

It could be dementia, or it could be chronic alcohol abuse, meaning he’s drunk a lot, but has acquired the tolerance to function without appearing drunk.


34 posted on 03/17/2015 7:24:17 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Libloather
the boy only opens his mouth to change feet...

35 posted on 03/17/2015 7:32:33 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Libloather

Someone call the local adult day care center and have them do a bed check!


36 posted on 03/17/2015 7:37:44 PM PDT by donozark (On the other side of fear lies freedom)
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To: Libloather

Biden for predisent! Persident? Whatever.


37 posted on 03/17/2015 9:29:35 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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>> he suddenly blurted: ‘Anyone wearing orange is not welcome in here.’

I don’t disagree, but not a politically astute remark.


38 posted on 03/17/2015 9:34:03 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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