How President Joe Biden Became Irish

Then-Vice President Joe Biden and members of his family pose in the Long Room Library at Trinity College in Dublin in June 2016. | Maxwells Dublin/Irish Government photo via AP

The following excerpt is a well-researched and excellent article about President Joe Biden’s ancestry – especially the Irish portion of it, which he emphasizes. 

While it is cliche for political figures to portray themselves as being “as American as apple pie,” President Joe Biden has long advertised another selling point: He’s also as Irish as a pint of Guinness (despite being, like his predecessor, a teetotaler).

More so than any president since John F. Kennedy — the only other Catholic to hold the office — Biden’s Irish heritage is central to his public persona. He is so strongly identified with it that Sarah Palin, famously, could not get his name right. During prep sessions for their 2008 vice presidential debate, she kept referring to him as Senator O’Bidenaccording to an account given by a campaign aide. His Secret Service codename, meanwhile, is Celtic.

Read the full article at Politico.com.

 

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