Posted on 09/25/2008 2:37:34 PM PDT by BigEdLB
GREENSBURG, PA Joe Bidens emotions got the best of him at a campaign stop in Western Pennsylvania, as he recalled the great kindness done to him and his family by one of the areas iconic families.
After being introduced by Pittsburgh Steelers owner and Obama supporter Dan Rooney, the VP candidate who wears his heart on his sleeve told how the the scion of that football family helped him out when he was at his lowest.
Sorry to take your time, but Mr. Rooney reminded me of this, Dan reminded me by just seeing him, he said telling the crowd about the car accident in 1972 that killed his wife and daughter and left his sons in serious condition in the hospital.
They wouldnt let us have a Christmas tree in, understandably, into the hospital because of concern about fire. So I went to K-mart to get a synthetic tree that would, you know, so Id be able to bring it in and have something there at Christmas for the kids, he said. One of the few times I was away from their bed for a couple hours, I came back and they looked like they had lighted up my Christmas trees.
My one boy was in traction, and my other little boy had a fractured skull. And they were happy. They each separately had a football in their bed.
At this point, Biden looked down and paused for 15 seconds to collect himself. Excuse me, he said, wiping his eyes. The crowd applauded.
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Ask Ed Muskie how crying in public worked out for him.
Thank God he finally dropped the LIE that his wife was killed by a drunk driver......he wasn’t drunk and she pulled out in front of him....sad.
Biden just spoke in Wilkes-Barre. Now he is for clean coal, after he was against it, which was after he was for it.
In all seriousness I hope it is true.
Has nothing to do with his utter ineptitude as a Senator or candidate.
As if we all haven’t had tragedy in our lives......quit acting like a freakin’ girl
Get a grip, Chuck!
In principle I agree with you, but it'd difficult to gather a molecule of compassion for him when ass clowns like Biden try EVERY SINGLE DAY to reduce me and my fellow Americans to taxpaying mules sucking the life out of each and everyone of us.
With his brilliant IQ, can’t he just outsmart himself out of the little boo-hoo fit?
political stunt
Man up ,you phony asshat
Did he slander the truck driver involved in the accident by saying the poor man was drunk again.
Hey, I’m really sorry this man lost his wife & daughter, but to be using it 26 years later for political gain is very distasteful to me.
This guy must be on drugs, or always drunk.
I’m very disappointed that the Rooneys great friends of St. Vincent’s College, a genuinely Catholic College, support men who do nothing to defend Life at it’s most vulnerable, tempers my rooting for the Steelers.
There’s no crying in politics!! ;)
Ed Muskie
Sorry, this clown’s tears get no pass from me.
Over many years he has used and abused this story for his own political gain ... destroying the short life of the truck driver involved in the accident by erroneously describing him as the at-fault “drunk driver.”
For Biden, it doesn’t have to be true. It is the story that counts regardless.
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