Posted on 11/10/2020 4:16:25 AM PST by COBOL2Java
Not only is the Vice-President-Elect of the US a woman of part Indian, part Jamaican descent, President-Elect Joe Biden too likes to talk about the India connection he has through his ancestors.
The American President-Elect Joe Biden's speech in Mumbai on 24 July 2013, when he had visited India as the Vice-President of the US began with references to his ancestors having possibly worked for the East India Company and that a distant uncontacted relative of his - a Biden still lived in Mumbai.
"Thank you all for giving me this opportunity," Joe Biden had begun his speech. " It’s an honour to be back in India and to be here in Mumbai. Off script for a second here, I was reminded -- I was elected to the United States Senate when I was a 29-year-old kid back in 1972, and one of the first letters I received and I regret I never followed up on it. Maybe some genealogist in the audience can follow up for me, but I received (was a) letter from a gentleman named Biden -- Biden, my name -- from Mumbai, asserting that we were related. Seriously. Suggesting that our mutual, great, great, great, something or other worked for the East India Trading Company back in the 1700s and came to Mumbai."
That broke the ice, as amidst laughter Biden also stated jokingly, "And so I was thinking about it, if that's true, I might run here in India for office. (Laughter.) I might be qualified. But I’ve never followed up on it. But now that I’m back for the multiple times, I’m going to follow up to find out whether there is a Biden and whether we’re related. I hope he’s in good standing if we are."
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Stupid schiff, that must have made him real happy with the coolies.
Joe just makes up stories.
Those Scranton people really get around.
Someone should tell him that the EIC had its own army, was vicious to the people in Bombay, named Mumbai much later, and forced the British army to throw them out and disband them.
The British version a flipping hoot. Could NEVER have Ben make in the US.
You know about old Joe..... he makes things up.....
OMG, what a total moron to open his trap on that subject.
Please, go run there.
I’m more interested in the family tree with live limbs who are crooks.
The new “Corn Pop.”
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