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sheshe2

(87,578 posts)
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 12:07 PM Aug 2013

Biden to join Obama



Biden to join Obama in Scranton

In a rare occurrence, Vice President Joe Biden will join President Barack Obama in Scranton for the last stop on the president’s two-day bus tour promoting affordable higher education.

…. The president is scheduled to appear Friday at Lackawanna College, a school spokeswoman and the White House confirmed Friday. The school will be the last stop on a tour that takes Mr. Obama on Thursday to the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y., and the State University of New York and Henninger High School in Syracuse. Hours before the Scranton stop, the president will take part in a town hall at Binghamton University.

“At each stop, the president will discuss the importance of ensuring that every American has the opportunity to achieve a quality education by reducing cost and improving the value of higher education for middle-class students and their families,” a White House official said…

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/biden-to-join-obama-in-scranton-next-week-1.1537259

http://theobamadiary.com/


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Biden to join Obama (Original Post) sheshe2 Aug 2013 OP
Great Photo of the Prez & the Veep! MarianJack Aug 2013 #1
Joe was born in Scranton! elleng Aug 2013 #2
Hi elleng~ sheshe2 Aug 2013 #3
Yes, she2, and he's spent a good deal of time there elleng Aug 2013 #4
More from your link, elleng~ sheshe2 Aug 2013 #6
Yeah, VP Biden is a Scanton PA, hometown kid! Cha Aug 2013 #5
That is a fabulous picture of our dear VP Joe! sheshe2 Aug 2013 #7

elleng

(136,169 posts)
2. Joe was born in Scranton!
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 02:18 PM
Aug 2013

Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1942, and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware! Its home coming!

(And important, as Pennsylvania's a rather important state!)

sheshe2

(87,578 posts)
3. Hi elleng~
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 02:28 PM
Aug 2013

Thank so much for that info! I didn't even realize he was born in Scranton! Sweet~

I love Joe!

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elleng

(136,169 posts)
4. Yes, she2, and he's spent a good deal of time there
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 02:33 PM
Aug 2013

in past election-times, helping Dems, especially for Obama-Biden ticket. He's told this story often:

Biden's father had been very well-off earlier in his life, but had suffered several business reverses by the time Biden was born,[10] and for several years the family had to live with Biden's maternal grandparents, the Finnegans.[10] When the Scranton area went into economic decline during the 1950s, Biden's father could not find enough work.[11] In 1953, the Biden family moved to an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, where they lived for a few years before moving to a house in Wilmington, Delaware.[10] Joe Biden Sr. then did better as a used car salesman, and the family's circumstances were middle class.[10][11][12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

sheshe2

(87,578 posts)
6. More from your link, elleng~
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 02:51 PM
Aug 2013

Biden is the first Roman Catholic and the first Delawarean to become Vice President of the United States. As Vice President, Biden has been heavily involved in Obama's decision-making process and held the oversight role for infrastructure spending from the Obama stimulus package aimed at counteracting the late-2000s recession.

His ability to negotiate with Congressional Republicans played a key role in bringing about the bipartisan deals that resulted in the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 that resolved a taxation deadlock, the Budget Control Act of 2011 that resolved that year's debt ceiling crisis, and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 that addressed the impending "fiscal cliff".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

Cha

(305,447 posts)
5. Yeah, VP Biden is a Scanton PA, hometown kid!
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 02:40 PM
Aug 2013


"Vice President Joe Biden visits hometown, stresses his Pennsylvania roots"

SCRANTON — Vice President Joe Biden turned a Fourth of July celebration in his hometown into a campaign stop to stress his deep roots in Pennsylvania, which has become a battleground state in this presidential election campaign.

there's more..
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/07/vice_president_joe_biden_visit_1.html

Mahalo, she, for the OP.. another great pic of Prez and Biden having each others backs and ours!

“At each stop, the president will discuss the importance of ensuring that every American has the opportunity to achieve a quality education by reducing cost and improving the value of higher education for middle-class students and their families,” a White House official said… "

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