Posted on 11/18/2020 8:16:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BALLINA, Ireland - Some 3,000 miles east of Delaware, nestled inland from Ireland's wild Atlantic coast, lies the small town of Ballina, the ancestral home of President-elect Joe Biden.
Since his projected win, the close-knit town of 10,000 people in County Mayo has erupted in joy over the success of the man they claim as their own.
American flags fly on street corners, a large painted Biden mural overlooks the town square, while photographs of a beaming Biden hang proudly in shop windows, with slogans that read: "Our man in the White House."
In 2016, he brought his children and grandchildren on an official trip to Ireland to learn about their roots, which also includes family on the east coast in County Louth.
Biden's maternal great-great-great-grandfather Edward Blewitt grew up in the market town of Ballina, known for salmon fishing and for being the birthplace of Ireland's first female president, Mary Robinson. Blewitt emigrated after the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s to Biden's birthplace of Scranton, Pennsylvania, now a sister city of Ballina.
One member of the town in particular, Joe Blewitt, 41, a plumber and Biden's third cousin, is bursting with pride.
"It's fantastic to see him getting over the line, you know, and so many people voted for him," Blewitt told NBC News.
He has met Biden in Ballina and as a guest at the White House in 2017, when President Barack Obama surprised Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"He's a really honorable guy, he's really decent," Blewitt said. "He's a great man for America ... And you know, he's one of our own."
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OH— here we good... the same press that obamaumao got that HE was “irish”. Now we find out what bogtrotter the biden irish mobster collection agency for the Credit Card state of Corporate tax registry-— Delaware. A more USELESS f’ing state there exists... except for downline Whitey Bulger types... like biden. Photos of Hunter’s weenie all over the net, and his tatoos of the “Fingah Lakes” on his back.
The place holder for a COMMUNIST non-American Canadian PLANT vp to take over is a an OLD, slobbering, senile, fart smoke who is a national security threat. Oh— he’s Irish so he’s ok-— OK all the way says the I.R.A.! And, btw, let’s renew the EU and Climate Accords-— with all that stolen US MONEY!
Not going to happen.
The “JOE THE PLUMBER” OBAMAUMAO INSULTED? Naaaah, can’t be..
a “working man” that Joe the BAG MAN says-— in several screen captures-— to real working men— “I DON”T WORK FOR YOU!”.
Paying attention you union rank and file— can the a@@holes who are bought off by this mick pol mobster.
Perfect.
As his vote tallies decrease bit by bit, day by day. Going to be hilarious if all this crumbles to ashes for BidenIdiot, the Left, and Ballina-ville......
...that is hide the lassies under 14.
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