Vice President-elect Joe Biden Remembers

At twenty-nine years of age, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972. He was the fifth youngest senator elected and now has served for the sixth longest period among current senators. Perhaps just as interesting is the fact that Biden is the first Roman Catholic to be elected Vice President of the United States . . . but wait . . . there will be more about Biden in the follow-up post.

Of interest to Thinkwriter is first determining Joe Biden’s worldview via a thoughtful understanding of his earliest memory.

We know Vice President-elect Biden is from Delaware (born in Pennsylvania) and that his father, financially successful in the earlier years, struggled later to support his family. Biden's earliest memory originated during a period when the family was “broke” and living in the house where his mother grew up. His mother’s brother was still living there, as was an old maiden aunt, “Grandpop’s sister-in-law, Aunt Gertie Hewitt."

Joe Biden recalls….

I remember being up in Aunt Gertie’s musty room on the third floor one night. She was beside me, scratching my back. “Now, honey,” she said, “your father is not a bad man.” This, of course, had never occurred to me. “Your father’s not a bad man. He’s just English. But he’s a good man.”

~ A young Joe Biden

(about 5 or 6 years old)

Choose what you believe to be Joe Biden's worldview from the choices listed below. Cast you vote in the poll to the right and check back later to learn the results and more about Vice President-elect Joe Biden. (Thank you for participating.)

1. Scratch my back; I’ll scratch yours. (0%)
2. Nationality doesn’t make the man. (33%)
3. Discrimination never sleeps. (66%)
4. Deals happen in musty rooms. (0%)

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