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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Splashdown on January 08, 2010, 04:51:22 PM
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WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden's 92-year-old mother has died after becoming seriously ill in recent days.
In a statement, the vice president says Jean Finnegan Biden died Friday in Wilmington, Del., surrounded by her family and loved ones. Biden says his mother was the center of the family, teaching them that faith will guide them through tough times.
Biden left Washington Thursday to be with his mother in his Wilmington, his hometown. The vice president's office says details on services will be announced in the coming days.
link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100108/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_biden_mother)
RIP and Godspeed, Mrs. Biden.
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That's always so sad. Having my mom go was the worst.
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Sorry, my sympathy meter isn't working. She was 92 years old. People die, especially at 60+. IMO, she has probably lived a long and full life. It was her time.
Perhaps I'm a cold, heartless bastard, I dunno.
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One of the very few good things about this administration...this lady got to see her son be VP before she died. Prayers for all that loved her.
My grandmother was 99 when she died, but I still miss her every day. There is no such age as "old enough no one cares."
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R.I.P. no matter what age it always hurts to lose your mommy.
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politics aside, my prayers and thoughts are for the family in this time of loss and sorrow. RIP
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Rest easy ma'am. What ever suffering you encountered in this life is gone forever now.
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Prayers for him and his family
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RIP Mrs Biden.
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No matter the politcial stripes or the age of the mom, it's always painful for those left behind.
RIP Mrs Biden, and prayers for the family.
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Comforting thoughts to the Biden family.
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RIP Mrs Biden.
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RIP, Mrs Biden.
That said, I'll bet she received the best care possible. Care that will be denied me under Obama's health plan.
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Sorry, my sympathy meter isn't working. She was 92 years old. People die, especially at 60+. IMO, she has probably lived a long and full life. It was her time.
Perhaps I'm a cold, heartless bastard, I dunno.
Yes you are
godspeed Ms. Biden
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RIP, Mrs. Biden.
She does not look happy in that photo. Reminds me of Kenny's grandmother that recently passed. She never smiled in pictures, not even her wedding photo. :-)
I miss her.
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How sad. She was a cute little old lady.
RIP Mrs. Biden
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I hope I live as long as she did, and am as spry....My sympathies to the Biden family, I am sure she will be sadly missed...
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One of the very few good things about this administration...this lady got to see her son be VP before she died. Prayers for all that loved her.
My grandmother was 99 when she died, but I still miss her every day. There is no such age as "old enough no one cares."
My grandmother was 92, and that was still too soon for me. Here's to Grandmothers!
And, boy howdy, Ms. Biden looked like a pip. Rest in Peace.
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Losing a mother is hard on anyone, no matter the age. My father still hasn't fully recovered from my grandmother's death and that was about 3 years ago.
God bless to Joe and the family.
I hate to bring politics into this but Obama doesn't give a damn about anyone about himself. What kind of a scumbag lets his brother live in third world poverty overseas.
And his crying over his "typical white grandmother" felt like crocodile tears to me.
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Sorry, my sympathy meter isn't working. She was 92 years old. People die, especially at 60+. IMO, she has probably lived a long and full life. It was her time.
Perhaps I'm a cold, heartless bastard, I dunno.
Agreed. This particular story is NOT newsworthy. I walked by the TV this afternoon and Plugs was on the tube babbling some stupid shit about his mother while she looked on adoringly (this was clearly before she croaked). Yadda yadda yadda. Gimme a freakin' break. :bird:
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Agreed. This particular story is NOT newsworthy. I walked by the TV this afternoon and Plugs was on the tube babbling some stupid shit about his mother while she looked on adoringly (this was clearly before she croaked). Yadda yadda yadda. Gimme a freakin' break. :bird:
awwwwwwww....can not get my head around some of these remarks...this site always seemed better than that.The loss of anyones Mom is painful and I send my condolences to the family...RIP...
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I guess that MY point is that were this the average, hard working American's mom, it wouldn't have EVER made the National News. When my mom, grandma and dad passed, there was little more than an obituary in the local paper. Just because it's the VP's mom, it's worthy of passing that info to the Nation?? Not IMO. I could go on. IMO, if I die to morrow, then so be it. A few will miss me. I don't expect it to be National news. Hell, there might be a few here that will celebrate my passing. It seems to me that too much importance is being placed on the wrong things. Celebrities, Political figures, and people that really have little effect on others' lives.
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You lived a good life, Mrs Biden, and you had reason to be proud of your family and their accomplishments....God bless.
It's always a sad time for anyone to lose a parent.
Whether it is news worthy or not....making disparaging remarks, tying it to health care or any other political issue is beneath any of us.
Kind of comes under the category of if you can't say something nice...then just don't say anything.
Sorry, guys, if I've made you mad....but each one of you is a much better person than you showed yourself to be in this thread.
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Given all that seems to attend celebrity these days, I happy to be relatively annoymorous. And anonymous, too. However appropriate or otherwise the MSM's coverage, the Bidens are still human beings are are (or at least should be) experiencing some measure of grief and loss.
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awwwwwwww....can not get my head around some of these remarks...this site always seemed better than that.The loss of anyones Mom is painful and I send my condolences to the family...RIP...
Thor's comments in Reply #21 capture my sentiments exactly.
It is simply not newsworthy material. Period.
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You lived a good life, Mrs Biden, and you had reason to be proud of your family and their accomplishments....God bless.
It's always a sad time for anyone to lose a parent.
Whether it is news worthy or not....making disparaging remarks, tying it to health care or any other political issue is beneath any of us.
Kind of comes under the category of if you can't say something nice...then just don't say anything.
Sorry, guys, if I've made you mad....but each one of you is a much better person than you showed yourself to be in this thread.
Ain't mad at all, deb. You've got your opinion, I've got mine. However, I completely disagree with your comment about "if you can't say something nice, then just don't say anything." To that end, I'm going to state my case regardless of the warm 'n fuzzies that seem to permeate the atmosphere at the moment.
The issue isn't whether Plugs' mother was a good one or not. It isn't about her at all. And it isn't about the Biden family, either (apart from the fact that any time that idiot runs his mouth I become disgusted).
In all honesty, I have absolutely no opinion about Mrs Biden, other than the fact she bred a complete idiot as a senator and an even bigger moron as a Veep. That probably isn't her fault, though. God only knows she probably contracted some kind of disease while she was pregnant with him and a couple of key genes went wacko, creating the dumbass that Plugs is.
Nope, it ain't about her at all. It really has to do with whether or not the issue is newsworthy. As Thor iterated above in Reply #21, it isn't newsworthy. Period. Her son is VP. She's 92. She dies. Instead of reading a blurb on page 16 of the WSJ, I've got to hear the local news, then the national news, over and over and over again talk about the VP's mother as if she were 23 and was struck down in a freak accident.
Like I said -- gimme a freakin' break.
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Ain't mad at all, deb. You've got your opinion, I've got mine. However, I completely disagree with your comment about "if you can't say something nice, then just don't say anything." To that end, I'm going to state my case regardless of the warm 'n fuzzies that seem to permeate the atmosphere at the moment.
The issue isn't whether Plugs' mother was a good one or not. It isn't about her at all. And it isn't about the Biden family, either (apart from the fact that any time that idiot runs his mouth I become disgusted).
In all honesty, I have absolutely no opinion about Mrs Biden, other than the fact she bred a complete idiot as a senator and an even bigger moron as a Veep. That probably isn't her fault, though. God only knows she probably contracted some kind of disease while she was pregnant with him and a couple of key genes went wacko, creating the dumbass that Plugs is.
Nope, it ain't about her at all. It really has to do with whether or not the issue is newsworthy. As Thor iterated above in Reply #21, it isn't newsworthy. Period. Her son is VP. She's 92. She dies. Instead of reading a blurb on page 16 of the WSJ, I've got to hear the local news, then the national news, over and over and over again talk about the VP's mother as if she were 23 and was struck down in a freak accident.
Like I said -- gimme a freakin' break.
It was on here that I heard she had died....and have not heard it mentioned on the news at all. I was unaware until your posts that it had been all over the news the last two days....
So, my opinion is a bit different than you and Thor have.
It isn't "warm n'fuzzies" that I feel about his mother. She lived a long and I would assume productive life, from what I had read about her....she apparently was quite the feisty little woman. Her children and grandchildren all seem to have lead productive lives.....not a given these days.
Granted we wouldn't know a thing about her or her death unless we lived where she did and read her obit in the paper, if her son wasn't who he is....nor would we care unless we knew her.
It's not her fault that she is getting all this publicity in her death....and I just think some of the remarks made sounded a lot like those made in the Dump...that were equally unnecessary....
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Let me be clear, deb.
By "warm 'n fuzzies" I mean the apparent feeling that you have, and that cottondress has, that with Mrs Biden's death, it's a national event AND that it's worthy of my sympathy.
It's not. While I have no antipathy toward Mrs Biden, people die. It's a fact. She had a nice long life. That's great.
Can I have the remote back now?
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Let me be clear, deb.
By "warm 'n fuzzies" I mean the apparent feeling that you have, and that cottondress has, that with Mrs Biden's death, it's a national event AND that it's worthy of my sympathy. No I DO NOT think it's a "national event"....but obviously the MSM does. Not her fault.
It's not. While I have no antipathy toward Mrs Biden, people die. It's a fact. She had a nice long life. That's great.
Can I have the remote back now? Darlin'...I wouldn't think of taking away your remote....I'm well trained. To go to a different room and watch TV and have my own remote..... :tongue:
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I own the remote, no matter what room I'm in. :p
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I am not a fan of Joe or his mother but by God it is not their fault that the media is hell bent on making this a National news story. Get a life people.
My mom died at the age of 93. That was 8 years ago and I still miss her. I am sure that her family misses her also.
RIP
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I am not a fan of Joe or his mother but by God it is not their fault that the media is hell bent on making this a National news story. Get a life people.
My mom died at the age of 93. That was 8 years ago and I still miss her. I am sure that her family misses her also.
RIP
and if CC existed 8 years ago, you have have my sympathies, Lacarnut. While I don't know you, personally, you ARE a member of the Cave. I've enjoyed your posts and wisdom. Therein lies the difference. Biden has not touched my life in any way, shape or form. The fact that his mother died is sorrowful for him and their family. I understand that. Does it affect me, personally?? No. Her death only affects the Biden family and their friends. I'm not one of them. I'm just apathetic about her death, period. Not newsworthy.
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Ya know, when my mother died, I was prepared for it, mostly. She had cancer and had suffered through chemo for almost two years. My grandmother got old, she died. It wasn't like I didn't know it was coming. My dad had Parkinsons for many years, well over a decade. Again, I was mentally prepared. Did I grieve?? Of course I did. Hell, I still miss my family. However, none of their deaths were more newsworthy than the local paper. Were they good people?? I'd like to think so. It kind of sucks being an "orphan" with no other family, except my progeny. However, life goes on.