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by Georgies-Girl from Brevard County

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By: Chris Gonsalves

Joe Biden may portray himself as a lunch-bucket Democrat with working-class roots, but when it comes to the holidays, the vice president-elect parties like a Kennedy.

Biden and his family caused a stir Wednesday aboard the high-speed ferry from Hyannis, Mass., as the Delaware senator made his way to his traditional Thanksgiving getaway, a rented $4 million home on the eastern end of trendy Nantucket Island. "We always go over for Thanksgiving the last 33 years," Biden told the Cape Cod Times as he made his way to the ferry dock, a stone's throw from the famed Kennedy compound in Hyannisport.

Biden said he typically traveled to and from the island retreat unnoticed. But all of that has changed since the election. "There was a lot of state troopers and Secret Service involved in this with bomb-sniffing dogs," Philip Scudder, vice president of Hy-Line ferry told the local newspaper. A Coast Guard cutter followed the ferry for the one-hour trip to Nantucket.

Meanwhile aboard Hy-Line's Gray Lady ferry, the senator's handlers kept him separated from other passengers in a small section on the ferry's upper deck. Popping the collar of his tweed jacket, the 66-year-old Biden read the newspaper, took family photos, and sported iPod earphones for much of the trip, according to the Cape Cod Times.

Once on Nantucket, the Bidens will celebrate Thanksgiving at a 5,280-square-foot home on scenic Polpis Road near Sesachacha Pond. Biden rented the house from local builder Larry Maury, son of well known Nantucket entrepreneur John Maury.

According to Forbes Magazine, Nantucket boasts the highest median property values in Massachusetts. In addition to its quaint and historic waterfront villages, the island is also famous as a seasonal playground for the rich and famous. Some of Nantucket's notable part-time residents include NBC's Chris Matthews, comic-couple Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, heiress Teresa Heinz and husband Sen. John Kerry, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, designer Tommy Hilfiger, and retired GE CEO Jack Welch.

 About 30 miles off the southern coast of Massachusetts, Nantucket is adjacent to the island of Martha's Vineyard, another popular, high-end New England getaway and a favorite haunt of former president Bill Clinton.

On the campaign trail, Biden rarely failed to bring up his working-class, Roman Catholic roots and the hard times his family faced. Biden, who grew up in a tough part of Scranton, Pa., helped the Democrats reach blue-collar workers in traditionally Republican areas where President George W. Bush clinched previous elections.

But if the pricey vacation seems, to some, discordant with the vice president-elect's work-a-day background and sensibilities, to other island regulars his trip seemed positively ordinary. "It's nice to see he's your average Joe," said Dan Lyons of Orange, Conn., who was traveling to Nantucket with his family for an extended holiday retreat.

Lyons then cajoled his 6-year-old daughter into saying Biden's name.

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Seems he is the Average politician.  Can't you just imagine where at least some of your tax dollars are going to go?  Where did he get all this money if he was a poor working-class democrat?
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rottweiler7575 read my blog view my photos
Nov 28, 2008 | 10:30 PM

HE IS IN SOMEBODY'S POCKET, Just like most in Washington...

snkypete read my blog
Nov 28, 2008 | 11:35 PM

Come on ,his old man was a used car salesman.While they may of had some hard times ,I would bet it was a get ahead by any means household.
Rott ,I would guess his fingers are in a lot of peoples pockets.Keep in mind this is the guy who helped push for 30% plus interest on credit card debt.Think the banks didn't grease that wheel.

oldvamp read my blog view my photos
Nov 29, 2008 | 8:07 AM

And the pre election lies begin to emerge. But wait, "YOU AIN'T SEEN NUTTIN YET". Get ready for a long,hard ride.

Georgies-Girl read my blog view my photos
Nov 29, 2008 | 3:53 PM

I got the following info, along with much more, from Newsmax.com:

Learn What Obama Really Means By "Spreading the Wealth"
(Hint: It involves your 401(k))

In fact the radical-dominated House Education and Labor Committee is already floating plans to "merge" privately-owned 401(k)s with the Social Security system (which former U.S. Comptroller David Walker has been warning is little more than a vault of government IOUs).

In such a "merger" -- spearheaded by House committee chairman Rep. George Miller (a Marxist hailing from California's Berkeley area) -- your tax-sheltered personal investments would be liquidated, dumped into government bonds, and linked up with the cash-desperate Social Security "retirement" system (i.e. as government bureaucrats "spread the wealth," and you are reduced to standing in line, hat in hand, hoping you get some portion of your life savings back). (Of course, your purchasing power will evaporate after the federal government inflates away the value of your so-called "Guaranteed Retirement Account," or GRA as it would be named.)

Georgies-Girl read my blog view my photos
Nov 29, 2008 | 4:51 PM

I would have really liked to copy the whole article I have received. It is most informative. Contact me thru my email and I will forward this info to you.

AirForceEd read my blog view my photos
Dec 1, 2008 | 12:12 PM

biden, just like the kennedy's have been the master thieves of the north east, we must remember that the old kennedy was a black marketer and that how he earned his bloody millions including running an off shore prostitution ring used many times by jfk and brothers. During the 80’s when 8 democrats were caught money laundering using the congressional postal system, biden was one of the ones investigated, but like good Teflon it slid off his back.

CynPro read my blog view my photos
Dec 2, 2008 | 1:27 PM

Maybe, if Joe would have talked to Cindy McCain,
they could have whipped-up a deal allowing him
to buy the house, instead of just renting it.

CynPro read my blog view my photos
Dec 2, 2008 | 1:29 PM

Let's face it, they all have money. The election
is over. Obama-Biden won. Time to come together
and try to put our country back in order.

Meb452m read my blog
Dec 2, 2008 | 7:22 PM

Good post Georgies-Girl. I've been watching and listening to and for scarce bits and pieces of the propossed 401K hi-jacking plan. Should it ever reach the floor for a vote or pass, I will consider it criminal and the actions of a thief. Since this type criminal is beyond rehabilitation, I know of only one deterent.

shadows read my blog
Dec 2, 2008 | 7:34 PM

It amazes me that the pro-business, pro-American dream, pro-hard work Republicans could fault Biden for being successful. I guess that they still haven't read about any of the very successful Democrats........of course most Republicans apparently don't read much other than Yahoo and Google.

Meb452m read my blog
Dec 2, 2008 | 7:41 PM

I'd heard Biden faulted on his charitable deductions claimed on his last years tax return, as best I recall some $2,000.00 total on $ 1.5 million in income. This by a couple ( Republicans ) making some 75K who donated 40k. Their comment was that for someone so intent on wealth distribution, he seemed a bit stingy when it conscerned his OWN money !

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Originally from Pennsylvania, then New Jersey, then New Mexico. Returned to N.J., and am now retired in Fla. At one time, wanted to Sing or be Artist or a Teacher. None of which happened. Contact me @ GeorgiesGirl321@gmail.com
. Now am contented (or not) to sit home and be "Just a caregiver/housewife." This is my release. BLOGGING! So I am sure, you will see more of my blogs as time goes on. P.S. MAXINE is my alter-ego! Stand up to be seen, Speak up to be heard, Shut up to be appreciated. 1

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