Posted on 10/21/2020 12:51:13 AM PDT by Liz
Joe Biden was introduced at Thursday night's Democratic National Convention by those nearest and dearest to him.
Biden's children Ashley, 39, and Hunter, 50, appeared ahead of their father's keynote speech to laud him as "tough" and "honest."
"We want to tell you what kind of president our dad will be... He'll tell you the truth even when you don't want to hear it," Ashley said, with Hunter adding, "He'll never let you down."
"The strongest shoulder you can ever lean on," Hunter said, with Ashley adding, "He'll beam with pride every time you succeed."
"He'll be the best friend, he'll love you with all of his heart. And if you give him your cell phone number, he's going to call it," they said. "How do we know? He's been that way our whole lives."
"He's been a great father," the siblings concluded. "And we think he'll be a great president."
The siblings gave the last word to their late brother, Beau, using footage of him speaking at a previous convention: "In moments both public and private, he's the father I've always known, the grandfather my children love and adore. My father. My hero, Joe Biden."
(Beau received a tribute earlier in the evening.)
The Biden children's remarks followed a video about their family that highlighted Joe's relationship with his grandchildren, with the girls saying they pushed their grandfather to run this year: "We just knew that he had to run and we weren't going to take no as an answer."
Former second lady Dr. Jill Biden spoke at the convention on Tuesday about being inspired by Joe's courage to fight on after the loss of their loved ones, including his first wife, Neilia, son Beau and daughter Naomi.
"Four days after Beau’s funeral, I watched Joe shave and put on his suit. I saw him steel himself in the mirror, take a breath, put his shoulders back and walk out into a world empty of our son," she said. "He went back to work. That’s just who he is. There are times when I couldn't imagine how he did it -- how he put one foot in front of the other and kept going -- but I've always understood why he did it."
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I wonder how President Trump was able to do it after the lost of his brother. It must have been hard but no sympathy for him. :(
[ I wonder how President Trump was able to do it after the lost of his brother. It must have been hard but no sympathy for him. :( ]
Trump couldn’t blame a fart on an elevator on losing his brother, but Biden has been riding his sympathy train ever since he got elected.
HARIS ALIC, 9 Jul 20191,Breitbart
‘Middle Class Joe’ Is Actually Multi-Millionaire Joe
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who often pitches himself as “Middle Class Joe” on the campaign trail, is a multi-millionaire, according to his most recent tax returns.
On Tuesday, Biden’s presidential campaign released three years worth of tax filings showing the Democrat frontrunner and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, earned more than $15.6 million since leaving the White House. The majority of the couple’s income came from a book deal — estimated to be worth $8 million — and lucrative speaking engagements.
In 2017, Biden’s first year out of elective office since 1973, the couple earned more than $11 million. This was exponentially more than the $396,552 both reported making in 2016. The following year, the couple’s annual income decreased slightly to $4. 58 million.
Biden’s political standing appears to be the reason for the couple’s new found wealth. The returns show that Biden earned $9.49 million in 2017 through CelticCapri Corp., a shell company named after the couple’s Secret Service code names.
CelticCapri, which was incorporated in Delaware only days after Biden left office, serves as the main vehicle for the former vice president’s public engagements. In 2018, Biden was paid $2.73 million through the company for appearances and speeches all across the country. In total, over the two year period, Biden made 49 speeches with some generating honorariums upwards of $249,000.
Not to be outdone, Jill Biden also cashed in on her public persona. The former second lady delivered 18 speeches between 2017 and 2018, earning on average $36,000 per event. Giacoppa Corp., the former second lady’s shell company named after her family’s original last name, reported paying her more than $557,00 in 2017 and $506,000 in 2018 for such engagements.
Rounding out the couple’s income was Biden’s pension from the U.S. Senate and the vice presidency which generated $241,00 in 2017 and more than $190,000 in 2018. Biden also earned a six figure salary from the University of Pennsylvania. The former vice president leads the university’s Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C., a position that paid more than $371,000 in 2017 and more than $405,000 in 2018.
The couple’s income for both 2017 and 2018 put them squarely within the top one one percent of economic earners, a threshold set at $480,930 by the IRS. In fact, the former vice president’s income was the largest of any of his fellow 2020 Democrats.
Biden’s ascension into the economic elite comes relatively late in life. For the majority of his political career, Biden was one of the poorest members of Congress. The couple’s income barely edged above $300,000 until Biden’s first year in the vice president’s office, when he became eligible to to receive social security and his governmental pension.
Despite waiting so long to break into the one percent, the Bidens appear to have comfortably transitioned into their new lifestyle. Last month, it was disclosed the couple now resides in a 11,750 square foot Georgian-style mansion overlooking the Potomac River in McLean, Virginia.
Biden rents the house, which once belonged to the late-Secretary of State Alexander Haig, even though he owns two properties within driving distance in his home state of Delaware. One of those is a recently purchased $2.7 million vacation house on the Atlantic Ocean.
Some signs of the couple’s prior lifestyle, however, appear to have remained in tact. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, Biden’s charitable giving has only slightly increased. According to the most recent tax returns released, Biden gave 1.4 percent of his income to charity in 2016. The following year, when the couple reported making 11 million, they donated just around 9.2 percent to charity.
The percentage fell significantly in 2018 to six percent, even though the couple earned more than $4.58 million.
Since signaling his intention to run for president, Biden has sought to regain some of the working-class appeal that was exhibited in his early career.
“I know I’m called Middle-Class Joe. It’s not meant to be a compliment. It means I’m not sophisticated. But I know what made this country what it is: ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” the former vice president said last year.
"He'll never let you down."Too late.
"The strongest shoulder you can ever lean onI think Kamala is going to need that.
I would say Jill too but I think she's Ma Biden. In on the scam
Lean on Buy Dung’s shoulder and he will collapse on the floor.
The Crime family is also the Ghoul family using Beau to try and stir up a fake magnanimous aura about the Vice Crook.
Jill is so full of it, He steeled himself in the mirror.
Who writes this shit?
According to his speech contract riders obtained by the Washington Post, Joe Biden demands his dressing room
be stocked a certain way ahead of his paid speaking engagements:
<><>Biden requests a full-length mirror, six chairs with straight backs, and a portable wrinkle steamer be in his dressing room.
<><> Coke Zero, regular Coca-Cola, orange-flavored Gatorade, and black coffee are also musts.
<><> those hosting Biden must also serve him angel hair pomodoro, a caprese salad, and raspberry sorbet with biscotti.
Some of his speech contacts included $10,000 for chartered flights as well as a town car and professional driver.
Biden’s campaign said the former vice president has given fewer than 50 paid speeches since he left government.
For some of those, he was paid up to $200,000.
In other instances, he did not charge a fee, though he was reimbursed for travel in some cases.
The campaign declined to disclose how much Biden earned in total from the speeches.
(Excerpt) more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Whoever would lean on JoeJoe for support is pretty fragile.
JoeJoe could brush your hair, sniff it clean and sing you a lullaby to sleep...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrlhn1H1EWw
Bill Withers
billwithers.com
William Harrison Withers Jr. was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He recorded several major hits, including “Ain’t No Sunshine”, “Grandma’s Hands”, “Use Me”, “Lean on Me”, “Lovely Day”, and “Just the Two of Us”. Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for six more.Wikipedia
Birth name:
William Harrison Withers Jr.
Born:
July 4, 1938, Slab Fork, West Virginia, U.S.
Died:
March 30, 2020, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
R.I.P. Bill Born on the 4th of July Withers. Condolences to family and friends.
A REAL SOMEBODY to lean on through tough times from his WORDS & DEEDS.
Side Bar Information: Ex-POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama will be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania today campaigning and filling in for Democrat 2020 POTUS Candidate, “Sleepy” Joe Biden. Obama will address a grouping of “Drive-In” cars. I here tell that the number of cars in this event could reach between five to five hundred cars, certainly not an earth shattering number for the supposed wildly popular and adored Ex-POTUS, Obama!!!
But, folks, sadly, the “pride of the masses”, Obama known to some of his great admirers as “The Magic Negro, with his Magic Wand” has just about lost all of his “MAGIC” If fact, some folks,say Obama will gain nothing from supporting or cheering Democrat, Joe Biden. In fact, it will damage, what little decent legacy Obama has left!!!
Obama was never a great POTUS, nor was he the sharpest knife in the drawer, except when it came to his unending love of himself and stuffing public coin in his pocket only. Hmmn: Sounds a lot like Democrat Joe Biden. They say birds of a feather flock together....maybe!!!
The Democrat Hidey-Ho ticket...Biden and Harris made their first joint appearance....a big deal in politics....but no one showed up.
The campaign team’s lame excuse was “they didnt advertise it.”
Well, ok.....but local Democrats surely knew the candidates were coming....
<><> where were all the Democrat party officials?
<><> where were the state, county and local elected Democrats?
<><> where were the party regulars?
<><> where were the rank and file getting out the vote?
<><> where were the “enthusiastic” volunteers?
<><> where were all the committed voters knocking on doors for the candidates?
<><> where were all the registered Democrats who, we’ve been told, voted early?
<><> where were all the Democrats said to be blanketing the USPS with mail-in ballots?
Cash cow pop
Ug I just hate those words “that’s who he is” “that’s who we are” “that not who we are”
So phony so empty ...what does that mean other than an attempt to insult and demean someone and puff up ones self...
Obama said that a couple of times “thats not who we are”
He didnt even love his wife nor was he true to her...he could care less...
He was cheating on her with Jill when she was killed...
But he sure milks her death for his own benefit...its like dancing on her grace...
Just 5 cars...the Biden family...
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