Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Biden Say What?(the gift that keeps on giving)
Hotline ^ | july 6 2006 | hotline

Posted on 07/06/2006 9:04:51 AM PDT by catholicfreeper

Biden Say What? A Biden Moment, as it were.

In thanking a young Indian-American man for the support of his Indian-American group, Sen. Biden touts how Indians are the fastest growing immigrant group in Delaware and says, "You CANNOT go into a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts without an Indian accent."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 08; 109th; biden; indianamericans; indians; plugs; slur
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last
To: socal_parrot

The Princeton hat is probably to keep his pubic hairplugs from curling.


41 posted on 07/06/2006 9:38:20 AM PDT by Inwoodian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: socal_parrot

He's covering up his comb over.


42 posted on 07/06/2006 9:39:33 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: onyx

Me too...dang it.

I hate when I don't see those posts before they are deleted..


43 posted on 07/06/2006 9:42:43 AM PDT by Txsleuth (FREEPATHON TIME--HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: catholicfreeper

This would be a lot better if Biden hadn't been misquoted. :-( Check the video...the difference is subtle but important.


44 posted on 07/06/2006 9:47:45 AM PDT by Gondring (If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CSM; onyx; vox_freedom; cyclotic; Txsleuth; Pookyhead; lawnguy; cvq3842; Froufrou; Clara Lou; ...

You know if anyone is thinking today at the RNC we could really take advantage of this situation

(1) Who to my knowledge is not only a rising star in the GOP but is one of the only high profile Indians in Congress. Republican Bobby Jindel of Louisiana.
(2) Who by the way is a well knowned in India and also is going to be running for Governor and probally could have some fun with this issue and get some free media (and)
(3) who also is is a big icon in the Indian-American community and help us with that increasing mor powerfula and wealthy voting bloc.

However, we again will let this pass I expect without even having some good nature fun with it that could help us out

By the way Happy Birthday Republican party
It might have been conceived in Feburary 1854 but I consider this its birthday. Today the First Republican National Convention occured.


45 posted on 07/06/2006 9:54:04 AM PDT by catholicfreeper (I am Blogging for the GOP and Victory O6 at www.theponderingamerican.blogspot.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: lawnguy
Same thing other immigrant groups do - one guy did it and the next guy who came to America emulated his successful experience. Just like Irish policemen.

Immigrants of any background also love owning their own businesses, for all the obvious reasons.

46 posted on 07/06/2006 9:54:51 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: catholicfreeper

Sure it was an Indian-American rather that an American Indian?


47 posted on 07/06/2006 10:00:00 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Make them go home!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: catholicfreeper
The Republican party started in Kingston Michigan with the movement to break from the Whigs and to run a candidate against James Buchanan for the 15th Presidency.

We lost that election but 4 years later successfully put Lincoln into office. Anyone remember who our candidate was?
48 posted on 07/06/2006 10:02:46 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: edcoil

OK I am not cheating here ,I am going from memory was it someone by the name of Fremont


49 posted on 07/06/2006 10:05:07 AM PDT by catholicfreeper (I am Blogging for the GOP and Victory O6 at www.theponderingamerican.blogspot.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: edcoil
John Fremont, the Pathfinder. Who was latter a Union General removed from command in Missouri early in the war for publishing an sort of Emancipation Proclamation and later a General in the Shenandoah Valley defeated by Stonewall Jackson
50 posted on 07/06/2006 10:09:11 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Fire Murtha Now! Spread the word. Support Diana Irey. http://www.irey.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: Txsleuth
I would guess because Indians are hard workers, appreciate Capitolism...and LOVE owning their own businesses. I worked for a Neurologist that was from India..his wife was a Radiologist... From what he told me about his country...the children are taught from a very young age..that school, work, are very important. And, those type businesses are relatively easy turn-key type businesses to get into. This is just my opinion, based on my talks with the doctor.

GMTY, 'sleuth. It's very true. I've been to India five times previous, towards the southern part of the country (Chennai and Hyderabad). I've seen the businesses, visited the schools, met the older students. They do place great emphasis on school, and ironically enough, though many are Hindu over there, many of the schools are Christian schools. (the Hindu/non-Christian parents like the teaching)

As for the businesses, aside from most of the women wearing sarees and salawars, if you were to fall asleep in America and wake up in India, you'd hardly know the difference. They have major business, designer clothing, internet cafes (try 25c per hour for DSL), you name it. People always think of it as some poor country. It is far from it. There is poverty there, and in places it is severe, but there is also great wealth. In some areas, it mixes together.

51 posted on 07/06/2006 10:10:56 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (To exercise your first amendment rights, go to college. To defend them, join the military.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: catholicfreeper
Joe Biden is an idiot. Biden is the gift to the GOP that keeps on giving.
52 posted on 07/06/2006 10:14:04 AM PDT by Uncle Hal
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: catholicfreeper

Darn does it seem that Joe has switched from plagarizing liberal Brit politicians to stealing deceased comics' lines (ala Rodney Dangerfield)?


53 posted on 07/06/2006 10:15:15 AM PDT by rod1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Txsleuth; lawnguy
Why are there so many Indians in the convenience store and hotel business?

Because your tax dollars subsidize immigrant businesses, allowing them to undercut existing American establishments. In fact, one doesn't even need to be legal or know English to get tax-funded support to file for tax-subsidized Small Business Association (SBA) loans.

Also, with strong family connections, the ownerships can passed among family members to continually get "new immigrant" benefits (that allow them to put competing American businesses under) for extended time--essentially indefinitely.

A non-immigrant trying to open a business or franchise doesn't have the American tax base supporting his endeavors.

54 posted on 07/06/2006 10:24:14 AM PDT by Gondring (If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: MNJohnnie

I am trying to remember. He was big in California history for something but I can't recall if it was before the civil war or after


55 posted on 07/06/2006 10:24:14 AM PDT by catholicfreeper (I am Blogging for the GOP and Victory O6 at www.theponderingamerican.blogspot.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: catholicfreeper

He opened the pathway to California and helped found the Bear State Republic.


56 posted on 07/06/2006 10:26:09 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Fire Murtha Now! Spread the word. Support Diana Irey. http://www.irey.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: catholicfreeper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Fremont#Expeditions_to_the_West

Early life
Frémont was born in Savannah, Georgia, the illegitimate son of a prominent Virginia society woman and a penniless French refugee, a social handicap that he helped to overcome by marrying Jessie Benton, the favorite daughter of Thomas Hart Benton, who was a leading Democrat and a slaveowner.

[edit]
Expeditions to the West

Modern marker for site where two of Frémont's men were lost in ColoradoFrémont assisted and led multiple surveying expeditions through the western territory of the United States. In 1838 and 1839 he assisted Joseph Nicollet in exploring the lands between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and in 1841, with training from Nicollet, he mapped portions of the Des Moines River. From 1841 to 1846 he and his guide Kit Carson led exploration parties on the Oregon Trail and into the Sierra Nevada. During his expeditions in the Sierra Nevada, it is generally acknowledged that Frémont became the first Caucasian to view Lake Tahoe. He is also credited with determining that the Great Basin had no outlet to the sea. He also mapped volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens.[1]

In 1846, Fremont ordered the murders of Jose R. Berreyesa and his nephews, Francisco and Ramon De Haro, near present-day San Rafael. [1] The murder of these popular Californianos hindered Fremont's political career and prevented him from being the first American governor of California, a post he coveted. Writing about the murders a half-century later, the historian Robert A. Thompsen noted, "Californians cannot speak of it down to this day without intense feeling" (History of California. vol. 5, p. 174-5.)

In late 1846 Frémont, acting under orders from Commodore Robert F. Stockton, led a military expedition of 300 men to capture Santa Barbara, California, during the Mexican-American War. Expecting to be ambushed in Gaviota Pass by the entire Mexican army, he led his unit over the Santa Ynez Mountains at San Marcos Pass during the rainy night of December 27, 1846, and captured the Presidio, and the town, from behind. The rumor of the ambush turned out to be false: the army had been at Los Angeles with General Andrés Pico. General Pico, recognizing that the war was lost, later surrendered to him rather than incur casualties.

[edit]
Politics
On January 16, 1847, Commodore Stockton appointed Frémont military governor of California following the Treaty of Cahuenga, which ended the Mexican-American War in California. However, U.S. Army general Stephen Watts Kearny, who outranked Frémont and believed that he was the legitimate governor, arrested Frémont and brought him to Washington, DC, where he was convicted of mutiny. President James Polk quickly pardoned him in light of his service in the war.

He served (from 1850 to 1851) as one of the first pair of Senators from California. In 1856 the new Republican Party nominated him as their first presidential candidate, but he lost (see U.S. presidential election, 1856) to James Buchanan. Frémont lost California in the Electoral College.


1856 Republican parade banner[edit]
Civil War
Frémont served as a major general in the American Civil War and declared martial law in Missouri. On August 30, 1861, he issued a proclamation: "The property, real and personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri who shall take up arms against the United States, or who shall be directly proven to have taken an active part with their enemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, if any they have, are hereby declared freemen." (1) In the history of the United States, the foregoing statement is said to be the original Emancipation Proclamation. This declaration led to a conflict with Abraham Lincoln and led to Frémont's removal from command in the West on November 2, 1861. He was re-appointed to a different post (in West Virginia), but lost several battles and resigned his post.

[edit]
Later life
He was briefly the candidate of the "Radical Republicans", a group of hard-line abolitionists upset with Lincoln's position toward slavery. The campaign was aborted in September 1864.

In 1866, Frémont reorganized the assets of the Pacific Railroad as the Southwest Pacific Railroad, which a year later was repossessed by the U.S. state of Missouri.[2].

Frémont was appointed Governor of the Arizona Territory from 1878 to 1881. He died of peritonitis in a hotel in New York City and is buried in Rockland Cemetery, Piermont-on-Hudson, New York.

[edit]
Legacy
Frémont collected a number of plants on his expeditions, including the first recorded discovery of the Single-leaf Pinyon by a Caucasian. The standard botanical author abbreviation Frém. is applied to plants he described.

Many places are named for him. Four U.S. states named counties in his honor: Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, and Wyoming. Several cities are also named after him, such as Fremont, California, Fremont, Michigan, Fremont, Nebraska, and Fremont, New Hampshire. Fremont Peak in the Wind River Mountains is also named for the explorer, as is the John C. Fremont Branch Library, located on Melrose Avenue in, Los Angeles, California. See Fremont. As is Fremont Street in Las Vegas.

Several locations in Portland, Oregon are named after Frémont, including the Fremont Bridge and Fremont Street.

John C. Fremont Senior High School is named after him, as is Fremont Street in Kiel, Wisconsin.


57 posted on 07/06/2006 10:28:41 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Fire Murtha Now! Spread the word. Support Diana Irey. http://www.irey.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: catholicfreeper

Just another liberal racist. And he's dumb as rocks to boot.


58 posted on 07/06/2006 10:37:47 AM PDT by GianniV
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: catholicfreeper

It almost sounds right
It's even funnier to people who know better.
It's Classic Gun Ban Biden

And did I mention before it is funny.


W



59 posted on 07/06/2006 10:53:58 AM PDT by WLR ("fugit impius nemine persequente iustus autem quasi leo confidens absque terrore erit")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MNJohnnie

You're taking me back to all my reading about frontier America. Kit Carson. The big swap meets of the 1830s. Amazing times.


60 posted on 07/06/2006 11:18:26 AM PDT by Huck (Hey look, I'm still here.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson