Ok back to our wonderful ticket: Biden Arrives back home in Scranton

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SCRANTON, Pa. – Little Joey Biden returned to his childhood home at 2446 N. Washington Avenue in the Green Ridge neighborhood of Scranton this afternoon and indulged in more than a bit of nostalgia.

Mr. Biden scratched a couple political events today, including a Labor Day march in Pittsburgh, to avoid seeming too partisan as Hurricane Gustav was pounding the Gulf Coast and the Republicans had all but canceled the opening day of their national convention. No one around Mr. Biden would speak about the revelation that the 17-year-old daughter of the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, is pregnant.

But neither wind nor rain nor Republican angst could stop Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the six-term incumbent from Delaware, from hanging out with his Scranton homeboys and waxing sentimental.

He arrived in a 12-vehicle motorcade, accompanied by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Senator Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania, who grew up a few blocks down Washington Street from the Biden family home.

Mr. Biden’s 91-year-old mother, Jean Finnegan Biden, was waiting for him on the little front stoop of the gray frame house, just as she had when he was a boy in the 1940’s and early ‘50’s. “This is my mom,” Senator Biden announced to a few dozen neighborhood residents who had gathered to watch the local boy’s return. “Can you still sled down Fiske Street?” he asked no one in particular. “Can you do it?”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/biden-arrives-home/

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. I'm sorry, but Joe is a hottie, with a million dollar smile. nt

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2. I'm a new fan of Momma Biden.

C-span kept the camera on her a lot during Joe's acceptance speech at the DNC and I sobbed during the whole thing.

MPK

[Kdillard]

3. Love Joe and it was wise to keep his mouth shut on babygate.

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4. He just looks so happy in every photo I see of him! Love him! n/t