Biden: "I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid" pic.twitter.com/cjmUZo1ScH
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Let’s Take a Vote on That
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
He has several several ancestors (about five) who are of early 19th century Irish birth. That’s about 20% of his pedigree.
That plagiarism picture is so Michael Scott.
Michael Scott earned a living as a sales rep. He was an amusingly clownish boss, but his staff was evidently meeting their quotas. I’m wagering the last commercial employer Biden worked for was his dad, nearly 60 years ago.
I think The Office was on the air from 2003 to 2010. I wonder how many episodes couldn’t be broadcast today, or would have to be butchered before broadcast.
I am hoping that comment will be the final straw to pry my half-Irish husband from the Democrat party.
I will pray for that intention SC!
Well, it seems pretty clear he was saying that, despite him being Irish and her being Italian, he wasn’t stupid enough to let that difference get in the way of their marriage.
That is a good deal clearer Pinky than our addled President was.
Doctor Jill’s Dad went by the name of Donald Carl Jacobs and was an agnostic. He got away from his Italian roots as much as his son-in-law got away from sanity.
Well, it seems pretty clear he was saying that, despite him being Irish and her being Italian, he wasn’t stupid enough to let that difference get in the way of their marriage.
About 1/4 of her pedigree is Italian and she’s three generations removed from the most recent set of immigrants. He’s about five generations removed from the most recent set of immigrants. It doesn’t get any lamer than this.
Are you people referring to the cabbage in the White House a.k.a Quisling in diapers?
I have a head of cabbage that’s more rational than him.
It may be a Cultural Catholic thing– I seem to remember some pretty nasty fights between various parishes because THIS one is [nation A] and THAT one is [nation B].
Mostly because of the scandals it caused, honestly, and folks at our first family parish not being that way.
We were at the Vietnamese and Samoan parish. Their social circles only overlapped in the Knights, or when either Father Boatperson or Father mini-Samoan dragged them into the general parish activities. There was some conflict, basically cultural/body language translation, but enough good will to get folks through.
If you don’t have that goodwill….
I’m Irish but I’m not stupid? Well, firstly what an insulting thing to say about the Irish. The Irish are not stupid, Biden. You are.
And secondly, his wife’s only grandfather (and only Italian link) anglicised the family name from Giacoppo to Jacob. But Biden is adamant she’s Italian. Um ok.
My creative take on that comment is that it could have been directed at Pelosi (who once probably looked like an Italian before she bought herself a new face), and who is probably waiting in the shadows, clapping like a seal, waiting to be VP or POTUS. As in “don’t mess with Jill she’ll go Italian on you, Pelosi”…maybe..?
@ Foxfier. I wouldn’t have wanted to mess with the Samoans. 😬 They aren’t petite. Great at Rugby too.
Art and Don, I’m not saying her dad was a proud Italian Catholic, or that there was anything Catholic about his comment. Just, Biden is old, and back then the Italians and the Irish were one generation removed from being the bottom-rung poor immigrants. They were in competition, and didn’t particularly get along.
It’s funny, everyone today talks about white versus black as if it’s the only racism in this country’s history, and as if this country was the only one to ever have racism. This idea that Irish and Italians would be lumped into the same category as decent Protestant Englishmen is new. I’ll probably live long enough to see people confused as to why “Hispanic” used to be a category.
@ Ezabelle – Father Mini was only “mini” for a Samoan.
At one point before a bunch of the aunties put their foot down, the pre-teen girls were colonizing the crying room so they could play on their phones. Most of them were taller than me. One of them messed it up by very loudly scolding me for having… a crying baby in the crying room. After I took her out of the crying room, and the church, because she was having a melt-down from Too Many People. Apparently that someone to start counting noses and a lot of those girls suddenly didn’t have their phones in church at all anymore, and Father Mini did some very pointed sermons on folks who only showed up at church because they got something from it/had to,
and back then the Italians and the Irish were one generation removed from being the bottom-rung poor immigrants.
“Back then” for the Biden’s would be ca. 1955. See Andrew Greeley on the Irish Catholic population, which he maintains had surpassed the American mean by the 1920s.
Father Mini was only “mini” for a Samoan.
Love it! Good for Father Mini. That would have irked me- having to accomodate in church for bratty teenagers. However I love how that tribal aspect of respecting their elders carries through the Pacific Islanders Catholics- Father Mini is the boss and they respect this.
Just to add- from anecdotal knowledge, the diocese not far from us (luckily my sons school
does not fall under his management) is run by Bishop Vincent Long- a Vietnamese refugee. Unfortunately, he is not good. Because he is not doing good things for his diocese or the Catholic education system. Traditional Catholics from
Bishop Longs diocese (particularly parents whose children go to a school which fall under his diocese) have been petitioning the Vatican CDF to have him removed. I hope they succeed. He’s terrible.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.ncregister.com/news/australian-catholics-petition-vatican-to-remove-their-bishop-over-his-stance-on-homosexuality%3famp
No doubt, and generally speaking cultural background and context of the ages does to some extent have an affect on how certain cultural groups observe the Faith. Nevertheless admittedly, there are good and bad observers of the Faith in all walks of life.